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Heaven taken
Heaven taken by storm, or, The holy violence a Christian is to put forth in the pursuit after glory by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by R.W. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1670
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
2. There is a time coming, when 1we shall wish we had drawn near to God. We are shortly drawing dear to our grave, Psalm 107. 18. They draw near unto the gates of death. The wicked who care not for God, yet at death they would draw near to him. then they cry as Matth. 8. 25. Lord save us, or we perish; Then mercy, mercy! They run to God in distress, as in a storm men run to a tree for shelter. But God will not shelter his enemies. The Lord gives the sinner abundance of mercy in his life time, (as you have seen a loving Father bribing a Prodigal Son with money to see if he can reclaim him) but if the sinner be not wrought upon with mercy, then at death the Sun of mercy sets, and a dark night of wrath overtakes the sinner. They who would not draw nigh to God as a friend, God will draw nigh to them as an enemy.
- 12. Motive.
How shall we do to draw near to 1God?
- 1Quest.
Let us contemplate the excellencies 1of God. He is the God of Glory, ⟨p. 214⟩