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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:192p. 138–139

So when Habakkuks belly trembled,¹ and his lips quivered, and rottenness ⟨p. 139⟩entered into his bones, and all Creature comforts failed, yet then had he such a sweet presence of God with his Spirit, as makes him to rejoice in the midst of sorrows: Yet (says he) I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. And thus you see it clear, That in times of affliction God makes sweet manifestations of his love and favour to his Children's souls.

So when Habakkuks belly trembled,¹ and his lips quivered, and rottenness ⟨p. 139⟩entered into his bones, and all Creature comforts failed, yet then had he such a sweet presence of God with his Spirit, as makes him to rejoyce in the midst of sorrows: Yet (says he) I will rejoyce in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. And thus you see it clear, That in times of affliction God makes sweet manifestations of his love and favor to his Childrens souls.

1Hab 3. 16, 17, 18.

:193p. 139–141

Eighthly, Praying times are times wherein the Lord is graciously pleased to give his people some sweet and comfortable assurance, of his love and favour towards them. Prayer crowns¹ God with the honour and glory that is due to his Name; and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort; usually the most praying souls, are the most assured souls. There is no service wherein souls have such a near familiar and friendly intercourse with God, as in this of prayer; neither is there any service, wherein God doth more delight to make known his grace and goodness, his mercy and bounty, his beauty and glory, to poor souls, then this of prayer. The best and sweetest

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Heaven on Earth

CHAP. III. Containing the several Hinderances and Impediments that keep poor souls from Assurance, with the Means and Helps to remove those Impediments and Hinderances.

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CHAP. III. Containing the several Hinderances and Impediments that keep poor souls from Assurance, with the Means and Helps to remove those Impediments and Hinderances.

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