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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 despairing souls, to all your former sins, do not add this, Of making light and slight of the blood of Christ; as there is no blood, that saves souls like the blood of Christ, ⟨p. 173⟩so there is no blood that sinks souls like the blood of Christ; a drop of this blood upon a mans head at last, will make him miserable for ever; but a drop of it upon a mans heart at last, will make him happy for ever. In the day of vengeance, the1 destroying Angel will spare you, if this blood be found upon the door posts of your hearts, otherwise you are lost for ever.
O despairing souls, to all your former sins, do not adde this, Of making light and slight of the blood of Christ; as there is no blood, that saves souls like the blood of Christ, ⟨p. 173⟩so there is no blood that sinks souls like the blood of Christ; a drop of this blood upon a mans head at last, will make him miserable for ever; but a drop of it upon a mans heart at last, will make him happy for ever. In the day of vengeance, the1 destroying Angel will spare you, if this blood be found upon the door posts of your hearts, otherwise you are lost for ever.
Lastly, I can tell you, O despairing souls, that God hath brought some out of the very gulf of despair, out of the very belly of hell; and therefore thou mayest hope that thy sins, that are thy present burden, shall not be thy future ruin. Doth not Asaph resemble the despairing soul to the life? My soul 1