A65299:98
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.
Read the Word as the last VVill and 1Testament of Christ. Here are many Legacies given to them that love him; Pardon of sin, Adoption, Consolation: this Will is in force, being sealed in Christs Blood. With what seriousness doth a Child read over the Will and Testament of his Father, that he may see what is left him?
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Read it as a Book by which you must 1be judged, John 12. 48. The Word I have spoken, shall judge him at the last day. They who live according to the Rules of this Book, shall be acquitted; they who live contrary to them, shall be condemned. There are two Books God will go by, the Book of Conscience, and the Book of Scripture: the one shall be the Witness, and the other the Judge. How should every Christian then provoke himself to read this Book of God with Care and Devotion! This is that Book which God will proceed by at the last. They who fly from the Word as a Guide, shall be forced to submit to it as a Judge.
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2. The second Duty of Religion 1wherein we must provoke our selves, is, in Hearing of the Word. We may bring our bodies to the Word with ease, but not our hearts without offering violence to our selves. When we come to the Word Preached, we come about a business of the highest importance, therefore should stir up our selves, and hear with the greatest devotion. Constantine the Emperor was noted for his reverend attention to the Word.