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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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O how can you look so much grace and mercy, so much love and favour, and such tender bowels of compassion in the face, as appears in these Scriptures, and yet rack and tear your precious souls with despairing thoughts!
O how can you look so much grace and mercy, so much love and favor, and such tender bowels of compassion in the face, as appears in these Scriptures, and yet rack and tear your precious souls with despairing thoughts!
O there is so much grace and goodness, so much love and favour, so much mercy and glory, sparkling and shining through these Scriptures, as may allay the strongest fears, and scatter the thickest darkness, and cheer up the saddest spirits, &c.
O there is so much grace and goodness, so much love and favor, so much mercy and glory, sparkling and shining thorow these Scriptures, as may allay the strongest fears, and scatter the thickest darkness, and chear up the saddest spirits, &c.
Again, tell me, O despairing souls, do you not do infinite wrong to the1 precious blood of the Lord Jesus? Three things are called precious in the Scripture, the blood of Christ is called precious blood, and faith is called precious ⟨p. 170⟩2faith, and the promises are called precious promises. Now what a reproach is it to this precious blood, that speaks better things, then the blood of Abel,3