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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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Secondly, God gives his people Reas. 2 some tastes of his love, some sense of his favour, when he puts them upon hard and difficult services, because else he should not only act below himself, as he is a wise God, a faithful God, a powerful God, a merciful God, a righteous God, &c. But also act below ⟨p. 93⟩his poor weak Creatures: For1 what Husband will put his Wife, what Father will put his child, what Master will put his Servant, what Captain will put his Soldier, what Prince will put his Ambassadors upon hard and difficult services, but they will smile upon them, and speak kindly to them, and make large promises to honour their persons, and kindly to accept, and nobly to reward their services? &c. Surely none. And will God,2 will God, who will not give his glory to those that have the most glorious Beings, suffer his glory to be clouded, and eclipsed by the prudent actings of weak worms? Surely no.
Secondly, God gives his people Reas. 2 some tastes of his love, some sense of his favor, when he puts them upon hard and difficult services, because else he should not onely act below himself, as he is a wise God, a faithful God, a powerful God, a merciful God, a righteous God, &c. But also act below ⟨p. 93⟩his poor weak Creatures: For1 what Husband will put his Wife, what Father will put his childe, what Master will put his Servant, what Captain will put his Souldier, what Prince will put his Ambassadors upon hard and difficult services, but they will smile upon them, and speak kindly to them, and make large promises to honor their persons, and kindly to accept, and nobly to reward their services? &c. Surely none. And will God,2 will God, who will not give his glory to those that have the most glorious Beings, suffer his glory to be clouded, and eclipsed by the prudent actings of weak worms? Surely no.