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The Christian Soldier, or Heaven Taken by Storm is unavailable, but you can change that!

Thomas Watson acknowledged that the life of a Christian is a life of warfare. Living in a time when many were persecuted and martyred for their faith, and himself having been among 2,000 English clergymen who suffered ejection from their livings under the Act of Uniformity in 1662, Watson wrote this zealous exhortation to all who would listen, encouraging believers to advocate—and even suffer—for...

for water, when he was ready to die, Judges 15:18. ‘I die for thirst.’ 3. If we would be violent in prayer, let us beg a violent wind. The Spirit of God is resembled to a mighty rushing wind, Acts 2:2. Then we are violent, when this blessed wind fills our sails, Jude, verse 20.—Praying in the Holy Ghost. If any fire be in our sacrifice, it comes down from Heaven. The fourth duty wherein we must offer violence to ourselves, is meditation; a duty wherein the very heart and life-blood of religion lies.
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