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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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It was an excellent saying of Lew is of Bavyer, Emperor of Germany, Hujusmodi comparandae sunt opes, quae cum naufragio simul enatent: Such goods are worth getting and owning, as will not sink, nor wash away, if a shipwreck happen, but will wade and swim out with us. Such are the goods that are here presented in this following Discourse; in all storms, tempests, and shipwrecks, they will abide with the Soul, they will walk and lie down with the Soul, yea, they will to the Grave▪ to Heaven, with the Soul, they will in the greatest storms be an Ark to the Soul. I have observed in some1 terrible storms that I have been in, that the Mariners and the Passengers want ⟨image 4⟩of Assurance, and of those other Pearls of price that in this Treatise are prepresented to public view, hath caused their countenance to change, their hearts to melt; it hath made them to stagger and reel to and fro like drunken men, like men at their wits ends; whereas others that have had Assurance, and their pardon in their bosoms, &c. have bore up bravely, and slept quietly, and walked cheerfully, and practically have said as Alexander once did, when he was in a great danger, Now (saith he) here is a danger fit for the spirit of Alexander to encounter withal; so they now here are storms and dangers fit for assured, pardoned Souls to encounter withal, &c.
It was an excellent saying of Lew is of Bavyer, Emperor of Germany, Hujusmodi comparandae sunt opes, quae cum naufragio simul enatent: Such goods are worth getting and owning, as will not sink, nor wash away, if a shipwrack happen, but will wade and swim out with us. Such are the goods that are here presented in this following Discourse; in all storms, tempests, and shipwracks, they will abide with the Soul, they will walk and lie down with the Soul, yea, they will to the Grave▪ to Heaven, with the Soul, they will in the greatest storms be an Ark to the Soul. I have observed in some1 terrible storms that I have been in, that the Mariners and the Passengers want ⟨image 4⟩of Assurance, and of those other Pearls of price that in this Treatise are prepresented to publick view, hath caused their countenance to change, their hearts to melt; it hath made them to stagger and reel to and fro like drunken men, like men at their wits ends; whereas others that have had Assurance, and their pardon in their bosoms, &c. have bore up bravely, and slept quietly, and walkt cheerfully, and practically have said as Alexander once did, when he was in a great danger, Now (saith he) here is a danger fit for the spirit of Alexander to encounter withal; so they now here are storms and dangers fit for assured, pardoned Souls to encounter withal, &c.