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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, Because you are my1 Friends, and that cordial love and friendship which I have found from you hath stamped in my affections a very high valuation of you. The Ancients painted Friendship a fair young man bare headed, in a poor garment, at the bottom whereof was written Life and Death, in the upper part Summer and Winter, his bosom was open, so that his heart might be seen, whereupon was written longè, propè, a Friend at hand, and a far off. Verily your undeserved love and respects have made me willing to open my bosom to you in this Epistle, and in the following Treatise, as to Friends that I love and ⟨image 5⟩honour. When one came to Alexander and desired him that he might see his Treasure, he bid one of his servants take him, and show him, not [Greek or Hebrew] his Money, but [Greek or Hebrew] his Friends. It seems he put a higher value2 upon them, then he did upon all the wealth which he had. Faithful Friends are an unvaluable Treasure, and the rarity of them doth much enhance the price of them.
Secondly, Because you are my1 Friends, and that cordial love and friendship which I have found from you hath stampt in my affections a very high valuation of you. The Ancients painted Friendship a fair yong man bare headed, in a poor garment, at the bottom whereof was written Life and Death, in the upper part Summer and Winter, his bosom was open, so that his heart might be seen, whereupon was written longè, propè, a Friend at hand, and a far off. Verily your undeserved love and respects have made me willing to open my bosom to you in this Epistle, and in the following Treatise, as to Friends that I love and ⟨image 5⟩honor. When one came to Alexander and desired him that he might see his Treasure, he bid one of his servants take him, and shew him, not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 his Money, but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 his Friends. It seems he put a higher value