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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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I answer first, That his strength and power may appear in their weakness, 2 Cor. 12. 7, 8, 9.
I answer first, That his strength and power may appear in their weaknesse, 2 Cor. 12. 7, 8, 9.
2 To discover not only the truth, but also the strength of their graces; a little grace will put a man upon those Religious duties that are easy, and pleasing to flesh and blood, and not chargeable, but rather profitable, and pleasurable, but it must be strength of grace that puts a man upon those services that are costly and cross to the Old man.
2 To discover not onely the truth, but also the strength of their graces; a little grace will put a man upon those Religious duties that are easie, and pleasing to flesh and blood, and not chargeable, but rather profitable, and pleasureable, but it must bee strength of grace that puts a man upon those services that are costly and crosse to the Old man.
3 That they may be more fully and eminently conformable to Christ their Head, who from first to last, who even from the cradle to the cross was most exercised in those duties and services that were most costly and cross to flesh and blood, as is most evident to all that study the writings of the Holy Ghost, more then the writings of men.
3 That they may bee more fully and eminently conformable to Christ their Head, who from first to last, who even from the cradle to the crosse was most exercised in those duties and services that were most costly and crosse to flesh and blood, as is most evident to all that study the writings of the Holy Ghost, more then the writings of men.