How violent was Christ about our salvation
Thomas Watson, Heaven Taken by Storm
How violent was Christ about our salvation! He was in an agony; he continued all night in prayer. He wept, he fasted, he died a violent death; he rose violently out of the grave. … Christ was violent in dying, to teach us to be violent in believing.
Thomas Watson, Heaven Taken by Storm (1669)
Thomas Watson (c. 1620–1686) was an English Puritan preacher. Heaven Taken by Storm was first published in 1669. Spelling here is modernised; the words are his.
"Holy violence" is Watson's phrase for all-out, wholehearted effort toward God (Matthew 11:12).
More words from the saints who fought before us are in the Library.