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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.
4. The fourth thing is, how many 1ways a Christian must offer violence; four ways.
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He must offer violence | 1. To Himself. | 2. To the World. | 3. To Satan. | 4. To Heaven.
1. He must offer violence to Himself. This Self - Violence consists in two things: 1. Mortification of sin. 2. Provocation to duty.
1. Offering violence to ones self in a spiritual sense, consists in mortification 1of sin: Self is the flesh, this we must oftener violence to. *Hierom, Chrysostom, Theophilact, do all expound taking Heaven by force, the mortifying the flesh: the flesh is a Bosom-Traitor, it is like the Trojan Horse within the Walls which doth all the mischief. The flesh is a sly Enemy; at first it is dulce venenum, afterwards scorpio pungens, it kills by embracing. The embraces of the flesh are like the Ivy embracing the Oak, which sucks out the strength of it for its own Leaves and Berries: So the flesh by its soft Embraces, sucks out all heart for Good,