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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.
3. The third thing is to show the several 1duties of Christianity, wherein ⟨p. 23⟩we must provoke and offer violence to our selves: I shall name seven.
3. The third thing is to shew the several 1duties of Christianity, wherein ⟨p. 23⟩we must provoke and offer violence to our selves: I shall name seven.
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1. We must provoke our selves to reading of the Word. What an infinite 1mercy is it that God hath honoured us with the Scriptures! The barbarous Indians have not the Oracles of God made known to them: they have the Golden Mines, but not the Scriptures, which are more to be desired than much fine Gold, Psal. 19. 10. Our Saviour bids us search the Scriptures, Joh. 5. 39. We must not read these holy lines carelessly*, as if they did not concern us, or run them over hastily; as Israel ate the Passover in haste, but peruse them with reverence and seriousness. The noble Beroeans did search the Scriptures daily, Acts 17. 11. The Scripture is the Pandect of divine Knowledge; it is the rule and touchstone of truth