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Heaven on Earth
Heaven on earth or a serious discourse touching a well-grounded assurance of mens everlasting happiness and blessedness. Discovering the nature of assurance, the possibility of attaining it, the causes, springs, and degrees of it, with the resolution of several weighty questions. By Thomas Brooks, preacher of the Gospel at Margarets Fishstreet-Hill.Heaven on earth or a serious discourse touching a wel-grounded assurance of mens everlasting happiness and blessedness. Discovering the nature of assurance, the possibility of attaining it, the causes, springs, and degrees of it, with the resolution of several weighty questions. By Thomas Brooks, preacher of the Gospel at Margarets Fishstreet-Hill.
London: printed by R.I. for John Hancock, 1654
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To the Right Honourable The Generals of the Fleets OF THE Commonwealth of England, And to those Gallant Worthies (my much Honoured Friends) who with the Noble Generals have deeply jeoparded their Lives unto many deaths upon the Seas, out of love to their Countries good, and out of respect to the Interest of Christ, and the faithful people of this Commonwealth, Such Honour and Happiness as is promised to all that Love and Honour the Lord Jesus.
To the Right Honorable The Generals of the Fleets OF THE Commonwealth of England, And to those Gallant Worthies (my much Honored Friends) who with the Noble Generals have deeply jeoparded their Lives unto many deaths upon the Seas, out of love to their Countreys good, and out of respect to the Interest of Christ, and the faithful people of this Commonwealth, Such Honor and Happiness as is promised to all that Love and Honor the Lord Jesus.
Renowned Sirs,
The better any thing is, the more communicative it will be, for bonum est sui communicativum. There are two sorts of goods, •here are Bona Throni, and there are Bona Scabelli, Goods of the Throne, as ⟨image 4⟩God, Christ, Grace, Assurance, &c. 1And Goods of the Foot-stool, as Honours, Riches, &c. A man may have enough of the goods of the Footstool to sink him, but he can never have enough to satisfy him. Mans Happiness and Blessedness, his Felicity and Glory, lies in his possessing the Goods of the Throne, which that you may, I humbly desire you seriously to view over the ensuing Treatise.