A65299:92
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.
When you read the Word, look on it as a soul-enriching Treasury. Search 1here as for a vein of Silver, Prov. 2. 4. In this word are scattered many divine Aphorisms, gather them up as so many Jewels. This blessed Book helps to enrich you; it fills your head with knowledge, and your heart with grace: it stores you with Promises: a man may be rich in bonds. In this field the Pearl of Price is hid: What are all the worlds Riches to these? Islands of Spices, Coasts of Pearl, Rocks of Diamonds; These are but the Riches that Reprobates may have, but the Word gives us those Riches which Angels have.
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Read the Word as a Book of Evidences. ⟨p. 26⟩1How carefully doth one read over his Evidences? Would you know whether God be your God? Search the Records of Scripture, 1 Jo•. 3. 24. Hereby we Know he abides in us by his Spirit he hath given us. Would you know whether you are •eirs of the Promise? you must find it in these sacred Writings, 2 Thes. 2. 13. He hath chosen us to salvation through sanctification. They who are vessels of grace, shall be vessels of glory.
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