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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 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 for you to faint and sink under the power of despair? what doth this speak out? O, doth it not proclaim to all the world, that there is no such worth and virtue, no such power and4 efficacy in the blood of Christ, as indeed there is? O, how will you answer this to Christ in that day wherein his blood shall speak and plead, not only with the profane that have trodden it under their feet, but also with despairing5 souls that have undervalued the power, virtue, and merit of it? Hath not the blood of Jesus Christ washed6 away the sins of a world of notorious sinners, and is it not of virtue to wash away the sins of one sinner? Hath it