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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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So shall sorrow and mourning flee 1away, and everlasting joy shall rest upon you, and the Lord shall give you an everlasting name, and be everlasting light and glory to you, and you shall be no more ⟨p. 172⟩called Forsaken; for the Lord will rejoice over you, and be a well-spring2 of life unto you, and make his abode with you, and turn your sighing into singing, your trembling into rejoicing, and your prison into a paradise of pleasure; so that your souls shall be able to stand up, and say, O blessed be God for Jesus Christ, blessed be God for that precious blood that hath justified our persons, and quieted our consciences, and scattered our fears, and answered our doubts, and given us to triumph over Sin, Hell, and Death. Who is 3he that condemneth? it is Christ that died. The Apostle upon the account of Christs death, of Christs blood, cries out, Victory, Victory; he looks upon all his Enemies, and sings it sweetly out, Over all these we 4are more then conquerors, or, above conquerors.
So shall sorrow and mourning flee 1away, and everlasting joy shall rest upon you, and the Lord shall give you an everlasting name, and be everlasting light and glory to you, and you shall be no more ⟨p. 172⟩called Forsaken; for the Lord will rejoyce over you, and be a wel-spring2 of life unto you, and make his abode with you, and turn your sighing into singing, your trembling into rejoycing, and your prison into a paradise of pleasure; so that your souls shall be able to stand up, and say, O blessed be God for Jesus Christ, blessed be God for that precious blood that hath justified our persons, and quieted our consciences, and scattered our fears, and answered our doubts, and given us to triumph over Sin, Hell, and Death. Who is