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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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Thirdly, Christ sometimes at first conversion grants to his people the sweetest manifestations of his love, that they may be the more active, ⟨p. 83⟩fervent, abundant, and constant in1 ways of grace and holiness; he knows that divine manifestations of love, will most awaken, quicken, and engage the soul to ways of piety and sanctity. Look what wings are to the bird, oil to the wheels, weights to the clock, a reward to the coward, and the load-stone to the needle, that is the smiles and discoveries of God to a poor soul at his conversion: The manifestations of divine2 love puts heat and life into the soul, it makes the soul very serious, and studious how to act for God, and live to God & walk with God: Ah, says a soul, under the beams of divine love: It is my meat and drink, it is my joy and crown to do all I can, for that God that hath done so much for me, as to know me in darkness, and to speak love to me when I was most unlovely, to turn my mourning into rejoicing, and my hell into a heaven.
Thirdly, Christ sometimes at first conversion grants to his people the sweetest manifestations of his love, that they may bee the more active, ⟨p. 83⟩servent, abundant, and constant in1 wayes of grace and holinesse; hee knows that divine manifestations of love, will most awaken, quicken, and engage the soule to wayes of piety and sanctity. Look what wings are to the bird, oyle to the wheels, weights to the clock, a reward to the coward, and the load-stone to the needle, that is the smiles and discoveries of God to a poore soule at his conversion: The manifestations of divine2 love puts heat and life into the soule, it makes the soule very serious, and studious how to act for God, and live to God & walk with God: Ah, saies a soul, under the beams of divine love: It is my meat and drinke, it is my joy and crowne to doe all I can, for that God that hath done so much for me, as to know me in darknesse, and to speak love to me when I was most unlovely, to turn my mourning into rejoycing, and my hell into a heaven.