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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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Joy and rejoicing is a consequent and effect of assurance, as many believers ⟨p. 28⟩by experience find, and therefore1 without all peradventure believers may attain unto a well-grounded assurance of their everlasting happiness, else it is impossible that they should rejoice evermore; so that by this argument, as by the former, it clearly appears, that believers may in this life be assured of their eternal well being.
Joy and rejoycing is a consequent and effect of assurance, as many beleevers ⟨p. 28⟩by experience finde, and therefore1 without all peradventure beleevers may attaine unto a well-grounded assurance of their everlasting happiness, else it is impossible that they should rejoyce evermore; so that by this argument, as by the former, it clearly appeares, that beleevers may in this life be assured of their eternal wel being.
- 1Mrs. Kath. Brettergh under the power of assurance cries out, O the joys, the joys, the unconceivable joys my heart is filled with.Mrs. Kath. Brettergh under the power of assurance cryes out, O the joyes, the joyes, the unconceiveable joyes my heart is filled with.
The tenth and last Argument to prove, that believers may in this life attain to a well-grounded assurance, is this, That God would never have made such a broad difference in the Scripture between the seed of the1 Woman, and the seed of the Serpent, between the righteous and the wicked, between Saints and sinners, between Sons and Slaves, Sheep and Goats, between Lions and Lambs, between Wheat and Chaff, Light and Darkness, &c. if it were impossible for men to know which of these two estates they are in: therefore they may know whether they are in a state of life, or in a state of death, in a state of misery, or in a state of felicity; in