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

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

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The third Proposition is this, That¹ a man may have true grace that hath not Assurance of the love and favour² of God, or of the remission of his sins, and salvation of his soul. A man may be truly holy, and yet not have assurance that he shall be eternally happy. A man may be Gods, and yet he not know it; his estate may be good, and yet he not see it; he may³ be in a safe condition, when he is not in a comfortable condition: All may be well with him in the Court of glory, when he would give a thousand worlds, that all were but well in the court of conscience.

The third Proposition is this, That¹ a man may have true grace that hath not Assurance of the love and favour² of God, or of the remission of his sins, and salvation of his soule. A man may be truly holy, and yet not have assurance that he shall be eternally happy. A man may be Gods, and yet he not know it; his estate may be good, and yet he not see it; he may³ be in a safe condition, when he is not in a comfortable condition: All may be well with him in the Court of glory, when hee would give a thousand worlds, that all were but well in the court of conscience.

1The third Proposition.
2The blind man in the Gospel called his faith unbelief.The blinde man in the Gospel called his faith unbeleef.
3Mat. 15. 22. 29.

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