Heaven taken

Name: Heaven taken
Author: Thomas Watson

Heaven taken by storm, or, The holy violence a Christian is to put forth in the pursuit after glory by Thomas Watson ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed by R.W. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1670

[16], 216 p. · 44k words · Wing W1128 · ESTC R9123

Title page typeset from the transcription.

HEAVEN taken by Storm.

Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.

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Some interpret it of the Doctrine of ¹the Gospel, which reveals Christ and Heaven. So Erasmus.

1Resp. No•a Evangelii doctri• ad quam jam ultrò constuebat Turba, Erasm.

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But I rather by the Kingdom of Heaven understand Glory: and so learned Beza and others.

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This Kingdom suffereth violence^*.

*[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉

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'Tis a Metaphor from a Town or Castle that holds out in War, and is not taken but by storm^*

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