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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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Remember Christians, sin is the souls sickness, the souls weakness; if the body be weak and diseased, it grows not, sin is poison that turns all nourishment into corruption, and so hinders the growth of the soul in grace and holiness. Ah Christians, as ever you would be rid of your fears and doubts, as ever you would see the beauty and glory of grace, as ever you would be eminent and excellent in grace and holiness, see that effectual justice be done upon that Achan, that Jonah, that darling sin, that hath occasioned storms within, and tempests without. It was a grievous vexation1 to King Lysimachus, that his staying to drink one draught of water, lost him his Kingdom. Ah Christians, it will ⟨p. 218⟩grievously vex you; when you come to your selves, and when you come to taste of the admirable pleasure that attends the conquest of sin, to consider that your hankering after this or that particular sin, hath been the loss of that joy and comfort, that peace and assurance that is infinitely more worth then all the Kingdoms of the world.
Remember Christians, sin is the souls sickness, the souls weakness; if the body be weak and diseased, it grows not, sin is poyson that turns all nourishment into corruption, and so hinders the growth of the soul in grace and holiness. Ah Christians, as ever you would be rid of your fears and doubts, as ever you would see the beautie and glory of grace, as ever you would be eminent and excellent in grace and holiness, see that effectual justice be done upon that Achan, that Jonah, that darling sin, that hath occasioned storms within, and tempests without. It was a grievous vexation1 to King Lysimachus, that his staying to drink one draught of water, lost him his Kingdom. Ah Christians, it will ⟨p. 218⟩grievously vex you; when you come to your selves, and when you come to taste of the admirable pleasure that attends the conquest of sin, to consider that your hankering after this or that particular sin, hath been the loss of that joy and comfort, that peace and assurance that is infinitelie more worth then all the Kingdoms of the world.