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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...

of thy brother’s blood cryeth unto me from the ground. If there is a curse for him that smites his neighbor secretly, Deut. 27:24 then he is double cursed that kills him. If a man had slain another unawares, he might take sanctuary, and fly to the altar: but if he had done it willingly, the holiness of the place was not to protect him, Exod. 21:14. “If a man come presumtuously upon his neighbour to slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar that he may die.” Joab being a man of blood,
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