This week we conclude our reading through Heaven Taken by Storm together.

You can find our reading plan and links to previous posts here.

Chapter Eighteen Outline

• Keep up daily prayer.
• Get under lively preaching.
• Get your hearts filled with love to religion.
• Be vigilant.
• Bind your heart to God by sacred vows.
• Be sure to make going to heaven your business.
• Have heaven continually in your eye.
• Keep company with such as are violent.
• Never leave till you have the Spirit.

Chapter Nineteen Outline

• What shall we do?
  • To the aged: keep violent till the end.
  • A consolation to the violent: you are in the way of the kingdom.
  • Comfort to the deadened heart: look up to Christ.

Questions for Reflection

• Which of Watson’s final directions for offering violence in chapter 18 do you most live out? Which do you resolve to take up?
• Are you within any of the three groups addressed in the conclusion? If so, how did Watson challenge/comfort you?
• Looking back upon the book as a whole, how has Heaven Taken by Storm stirred up your zeal for heaven?