Heaven taken

Resolution is like the bias to the bowl, which carries it strongly. Where there is but half a Resolution, a will to be saved, and a will to follow sin, it is impossible to be violent for Heaven. If a traveller be unresolved, sometimes he will ride this way, sometimes that; he is violent for neither.

Resolution is like the biass to the bowl, which carries it strongly. Where there is but half a Resolution, a will to be saved, and a will to follow sin, it is impossible to be violent for Heaven. If a traveller be unresolved, sometimes he will ride this way, sometimes that; he is violent for neither.

2. Vigour of the Affections. The Will proceeds ¹upon Reason^*; the Judgement being informed of the excellency of a state of Glory, and the Will being resolved upon a voyage to that Holy Land, now the Affections follow, and they are on fire in passionate longings after Heaven. The Affections are violent ⟨p. 16⟩things^*, Psal. 42. 2. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God. ^*The Rabbins note here, that David saith not, My soul hungereth, but thirsteth; because naturally we are more impatient of thirst than hunger. See in what a rapid violent motion Davids affections were carried after God. The affections are like the wings of the Bird, which make the Soul swift in its flight after Glory. Where the affections are stirred up, there is offering violence to Heaven.

2. Vigor of the Affections. The Will proceeds