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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Again, God delays the giving in of assurance, not because he delights to keep his children in fears and doubts, nor because he thinks that assurance is too rare, too great, too choice a jewel to bestow upon them,¹ but it is either because he thinks their souls do not stand at a sufficient distance from sin, or because their souls are so taken up and filled with creature-enjoyments, as that Christ is ⟨p. 68⟩put to lodge in an out-house, or else² it is because they pursue not after assurance with all their might, they give not all diligence to make their calling, ³and election sure; or else it is because their hearts are not prepared, are not low enough for so high a favour.

Again, God delayes the giving in of assurance, not because he delights to keep his children in feares and doubts, nor because hee thinks that assurance is too rare, too great, too choice a jewel to bestow upon them,¹ but it is either because he thinks their soules doe not stand at a sufficient distance from sinne, or because their soules are so taken up and filled with creature-enjoyments, as that Christ is ⟨p. 68⟩put to lodge in an out-house, or else² it is because they pursue not after assurance with all their might, they give not all diligence to make their calling, ³and election sure; or else it is because their hearts are not prepared, are not low enough for so high a favour.

1Isa. 59. 1, 2.

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