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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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therefore hold up, and hold on praying (though God doth delay thee) and my soul for thine, thou shalt reap in due season such a harvest of1 joy, and comfort, as will sufficiently pay thee for all thy pains. Shall the Husband-man wait patiently for the precious fruits of the Earth; and wilt2 not thou wait patiently for assurance, which is a Jewel more worth then Heaven and Earth. Praying souls remember this, It is but weakness to think that men shall reap as soon as they sow, that they shall reap in the Evening, when they have but sowed in the Morning. Titus Vespasian never3 ⟨p. 151⟩dismissed any Petitioner with a tear in his eye, or with a heavy heart; and shall we think, that the God of compassions will always dismiss the Petitioners of Heaven with tears in their eyes? Surely no.
therefore hold up, and hold on praying (though God doth delay thee) and my soul for thine, thou shalt reap in due season such a harvest of1 joy, and comfort, as will sufficiently pay thee for all thy pains. Shall the Husband-man wait patiently for the precious fruits of the Earth; and wilt2 not thou wait patiently for assurance, which is a Jewel more worth then Heaven and Earth. Praying souls remember this, It is but weakness to think that men shall reap as soon as they sow, that they shall reap in the Evening, when they have but sowed in the Morning. Titus Vespasian never3 ⟨p. 151⟩dismist any Petitioner with a tear in his eye, or with a heavy heart; and shall we think, that the God of compassions will always dismiss the Petitioners of Heaven with tears in their eyes? Surely no.