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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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And this makes the assured soul to sit down singing, when others under far less crosses and losses, sits down sighing, mourning and complaining, Our burdens are greater then we are able to bear. If there were but more assurance of better things among ⟨p. 245⟩Christians, there would be less complaints among them of this burden, and that Mole-hills then would be no longer Mountains. Christians, it is not new notions, new opinions, new nothings (as I may say) in your heads, but the gaining of a well-grounded assurance in your hearts, that will enable you to bear all kind of burdens without a burden.
And this makes the assured soul to sit down singing, when others under far less crosses and losses, sits down sighing, mourning and complaining, Our burdens are greater then we are able to bear. If there were but more assurance of better things among ⟨p. 245⟩Christians, there would be less complaints among them of this burden, and that Mole-hills then would be no longer Mountains. Christians, it is not new notions, new opinions, new nothings (as I may say) in your heads, but the gaining of a wel-grounded assurance in your hearts, that will inable you to bear all kinde of burdens without a burden.
The eighth Motive to provoke you1 to get assurance, is drawn from those particular commands of God, whereby he engages Christians to get assurance;2 as that in the 2 Pet. 1. 10. Wherefore the rather Brethren, give diligence to make your Calling and Election sure; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall. So 2 Cor. 13. 5