Heaven Taken By Storm: Or, The Christian Soldier
Thomas Watson's short but bracing treatise on Matthew 11:12 argues that heaven is entered only by holy violence, a determined, strenuous pursuit of God rather than a passive drift toward glory. He works through the concrete means by which believers press forward: reading the Word, prayer, meditation, self-examination, holy conversation, and keeping the Lord's Day. It endures as a practical spur against spiritual laziness.
Based on The Christian Soldier, or Heaven Taken by Storm (1669)
From the book
In Thomas Watson's own words
“The right way to take heaven is by storm.”
“The Word is the treasury of divine knowledge; it is the rule and touchstone of truth; out of this well we draw the water of life.”
“Self-examination is the setting up a court in conscience, and keeping a register there, that by strict scrutiny a man may know how things stand between God and his own soul.”
