A65299:5
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.
Dedication: TO THE Right Honourable, Sir WILLIAM TURNER, Knight, LORD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
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.
TO THE Right Honourable, Sir WILLIAM TURNER, Knight, LORD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
Right Honourable,
IT is the happiness of this City, to have a Magistrate that bears not the Sword in vain. Your place ⟨image 3⟩is high; God hath lent you his own Title: *your work is great, it lies in the distribution of Justice, which (according to Aristotle) comprehends all virtues in it. And in this your high orb you have acted vigorously. Your good Government hath helped to raise, if not London's structures, yet its fame. My Lord, to be a [Greek or Hebrew], a public Good, will both render your life honourable, and your death comfortable*. God did reserve you for such a juncture of time as ⟨image 3⟩this. When is there more need of zeal in superiors, than when vice grows heady in inferiors. The subject I here humbly dedicate to your Lordship, is, Violence for Heaven. A Divine [Greek or Hebrew], or temperature of soul to be much aspired after; for by this you may help to save not only your self, but others. Put on Integrity as a Robe; and let zealous violence more adorn you than the richest Chain of Gold. But I have cause to break forth into Panegyrics. Indeed your own ⟨image 4⟩