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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65299	Heaven taken by storm, or, The holy violence a Christian is to put forth in the pursuit after glory by Thomas Watson ...	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1670 (1670)	Wing W1128; ESTC R9123	95,888	234

willingly doth a man wade through a deep water that sees the dry Land before him and is sure to be crowned as soon as he comes at shore Every time you cast your eye up to Heaven think above that starry Heaven is the Empyraean Heaven I am striving for Thus did Moses the eye of his faith quickned the feet of his obedience Heb. 11. 26. He looked to the recompence of Reward When Christians lose their prospect of Heaven then they begin to slacken their pace in the way thither If you would be violent for the Kingdom accompany with such as are violent When we want fire we use to go to our neighbours hearth and fetch fire Often be among the godly and so you shall fetch some heat and quickning from them Psal. 119. 63. I am a companion of all them that fear thee Good company quickens The holy discourse and example of one Saint doth whet and sharpen another The Saints never go so fast to Heaven as when they go in company One Christian helps forward another In other Races that are run many times one hinders another but in this Race to Heaven one Christian helps forward another 1 Thes. 5. 11. Edifie one another even as also ye do O let not this Article of our Creed be forgotten The Communion of Saints If you would be violent never leave till you have the Spirit Desire of God to put forth the sweet violence of his Spirit the Spouse begg'd a gale of the Spirit Cant. 4. 16. Awake O North-wind blow a South When God's Spirit blows upon us now we go full sail to Heaven When the Spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels then they moved Ezek. 1. 21. The wheels of our endeavour move apace when the Spirit of God is in these wheels Seeing there are so many violent winds of temptation blowing us backward we had need have the violent wind of God's Spirit blowing us forward to Heaven Let this suffice to have spoken of the means for this holy violence But may some say we have used this violence for Heaven what remains for us to do As the people said to Christ Luke 1. 13. What shall we do You that have been violent for Heaven aged Christians let me beseech you still to keep alive this holy violence Not only keep up duty but violence in duty Remember you have that corruption within you which is ready to abate this blessed violence The brightest coal hath those ashes growing on it as is apt to choak the fire You have those inbred corruptions that like ashes are ready to choak the fire of your zeal How was Peter's grace cooled when he denied Christ The Church of Ephesus lost her keen edge of Religion Rev. 2. 4. Take heed of declining in your affections Be not like a body in an atrophy be most violent at last A stone the nearer it is to the center the more violent it is in its motion You have but a little time now to work for God therefore work the harder Be like the Church of Thyatira Her last works were more than her first Rev. 2. 19. Be as the Sun that shines brightest before its setting As the Swan that sings sweetest before its death Rom. 13. 11. Your salvation is nearer than when you believed If your salvation be nearer your violence should be greater How should you quicken your pace when you are within sight of the Kingdom He is an happy man of whom it may be said spiritually as of Moses literally before his death Deut. 34. 7. His eyes waxed not dim and his natural force was not abated So a Christian's force and violence for Heaven is not abated He keeps the best wine of his life till the last Here is strong consolation to the violent Christian thou art in the way to the Kingdom Though perhaps thou hast not a bunch of Grapes in the way I mean that joy which some meet with yet it is happy that thou art in the way Bless God that while some lye in the tot●…l neglect of duty God hath given thee an heart to seek him Psal. 105. 3. Le●… the hearts of them rejoyce that seek the Lord. Nay God hath not only given thee an heart to do duty but to do duty mixed with love which makes it savoury meat and do duty stamped with fervency which makes it pass currant with God O bless God who hath raised thee off the bed of sloth and stirred up the zeal of thy soul for Heaven He who hath made thee violent will make thee victorious Wait awhile and thou shalt be possessed of a Kingdom When Moses went up to receive God's Commands he staid six daies on the Mount and on the seventh day God called to him Exod. 24. 16. Though we wait long and have not the thing waited for yet let us continue doing our duty shortly God will call us from Heaven Come up hither and we shall go from the Mount of Faith to the Mount of Vision and behold those glorious things which eye hath ●…ot seen nor can it enter into man's heart to conceive But may a child of God say I fear I am none of those violent ones that shall take Heaven I find such a deadness of heart in duty that I question whether I shall ever arrive at the Kingdom This deadness of the heart may arise from natural causes Weakness of body may occasion indisposition of mind Thy prayer may be weak because thy body is weak A Lute that is cracked cannot send forth so sweet a sound as if it were whole 2. This indisposition of soul perhaps is only casual and for a time it may be in a deep fit of melancholy or in desertion When the Sun is gone from our climate the earth is as it were in desertion and the trees are without blossom or fruit but this is only for a time Let but the Sun return again in Spring and now the herbs flourish and the trees put forth their fruit So when God hides his face there is a deadness upon a Christian's heart he prayes as if he prayed not But let the Sun of Righteousness return now he is divinely animated and is as vigorous and lively in his operation as ever he now recovers his first love Therefore thou weak Christian be not discouraged so long as thou dost not allow thy self in thy distemper a dead heart is thy burden look up to Christ thy High-Priest who is merciful to bear with thy infirmities and is mighty to help them THE HAPPINESS OF Drawing near to GOD. PSALM 73. 28. But it is good for me to draw near to God THis Psalm is no less elegant than sacred It is calculated for the Meridian of God's Church in all times but especially it is fit for the godly to meditate upon in times of calamity It is intitled a Psalm of Asaph Asaph was a man divinely inspired a Prophet as also one of the