Heaven on Earth

Name: Heaven on Earth
Author: Thomas Brooks

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.

Thomas Brooks 1608–1680London: printed by R.I. for John Hancock, 1654

[50], 607, [1] p. · 126k words · Wing B4943 · ESTC R209539

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A Serious Discourse, touching A Well-grounded Assurance. › Chapter 2: Containing several weighty Propositions concerning Assurance.

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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.

:112p. 38–39¶4

4 Because in the performance of such duties they do in a more singular way bear up the name and credit, the honour and glory of God, Christ and the Gospel in the world; the very ⟨p. 39⟩world will cry out, Ah these are Christians indeed.

:113p. 39¶5

5 Because the more they are in the exercise of such duties, the greater, at last, will be their reward.

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