Heaven Taken by Storm / Showing the Holy Violence A Christian is to Put Forth in the Pursuit After Glory / By: THOMAS WATSON / Soli Deo Gloria, 1992 / Hardcover 

ISBN: 1877611506 

ISBN-13: 9781877611506

Printed in FL

Pages 129

"We must offer violence to heaven in regard to the diffi- culty of the work-taking a kingdom. First, we must be pulled out of another kingdom, the kingdom of darkness (Acts 26:18). To get out of the state of nature is hard, and when that is done and we are cut off from the wild olive and implanted into Christ, there is still new work to do: new sins to mortify, new temptations to resist, new graces to quicken. A Christian must not only get faith, but go "from faith to faith" (Rom. 1:17). This will not be done without violence.

"We must offer violence to heaven in regard to the vio- lent assaults made against us. Our own hearts oppose us. This is a strange paradox: Man naturally desires happi- ness, yet opposes it; he desires to be saved, yet hates that holy violence which would save him."

-Thomas Watson

This book shows the "holy violence a Christian is to put forth in the pursuit after glory." Watson gives a practical handbook on Christian living--the reading of Scripture, prayer, meditation, self-examination, and the sanctification of the Lord's Day. This is our bestselling Puritan book.

Title: Heaven Taken by Storm: Showing the Holy Violence a Christian is to Put Forth in the Pursuit After Glory
Puritan Writings

Author: Thomas Watson

Editor: Joel R. Beeke

Edition: reprint

Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria, 1992

ISBN: 1877611506, 9781877611506

Length: 129 pages