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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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a little mercy may save the soul, but it must be a great deal of mercy that must satisfy the soul: The least glimpse of Gods countenance may be a staff to support the soul, and a cordial to cherish and comfort the soul, and an ark to secure the soul, and a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night to guide the ⟨p. 128⟩soul; but it must be much, very much of God, that must be enough to satisfy the soul.
a little mercy may save the soul, but it must be a great deal of mercy that must satisfie the soul: The least glimps of Gods countenance may be a staff to support the soul, and a cordial to cherish and comfort the soul, and an ark to secure the soul, and a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night to guide the ⟨p. 128⟩soul; but it must be much, very much of God, that must be enough to satisfie the soul.
The fifth and last Reason, Why the Reas. 5 Lord is graciously pleased to give his people some sense of his love, and some assurance of his favour in Ordinances, is, That they may have wherewithal to silence, and stop the mouths of wicked and ungodly men, whose words are1 stout against the Lord; who say, it is in vain to serve God, and what profit is there in keeping his Statutes and Ordinances, and in walking mournfully before the Lord of Hosts. Now the2 Lord causes his face to shine upon his people in Ordinances, that they may stand up, and bear him witness before the wicked world, that he is no hard Master, that he reaps not where he sows not. In Ordinances he kisses them, and there he gives them his love, and makes known his goodness and glory, that his Children may from their own experiences, be able to confute all the lies and clamours of wicked men against God and his ways. And blessed be God, that hath not left himself without witness, but hath many thousands