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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Ah Christians, that the sense of what you have formerly lost, and of what you daily loose, by your playing with sin, might provoke you to set upon some effectual course for the mortifying of them. It was a blasphemous speech of Henry the second, who said, when Mentz, his City was taken, That he should never love God any more, who suffered a City so dear to him, to be taken from him. But it will be a blessed and a happy thing for you, in uprightness, to say, O, we will never love, we will never favour, we will never dally with our bosom sins more; for they have damnified us in our Spiritual enjoyments, and in our Spiritual returns from Heaven. Shall the sense1 of outward losses by this and that instrument, work us out of love with them; and shall not the sen•e of our Spiritual losses by bosom sins, work ⟨p. 212⟩us much more out with them. Ah Lord, of what Iron metal is that heart that can look upon those sad losses that hath attended playing with bosom sins, and yet still dally with those Delilahs?
Ah Christians, that the sense of what you have formerly lost, and of what you daily loose, by your playing with sin, might provoke you to set upon some effectual course for the mortifying of them. It was a blasphemous speech of Henry the second, who said, when Mentz, his City was taken, That he should never love God any more, who suffered a City so dear to him, to be taken from him. But it will be a blessed and a happy thing for you, in uprightness, to say, O, we will never love, we will never favor, we will never dally with our bosom sins more; for they have damnified us in our Spiritual enjoyments, and in our Spiritual returns from Heaven. Shall the sense1 of outward losses by this and that instrument, work us out of love with them; and shall not the sen•e of our Spiritual losses by bosom sins, work ⟨p. 212⟩us much more out with them. Ah Lord, of what Iron mettal is that heart that can look upon those sad losses that hath attended playing with bosom sins, and yet still dally with those Delilahs?