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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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Did you make more conscience to act answerable to the forementioned commands, I am very apt to believe, that the Sun of Righteousness, would certainly and speedily cause his love, and glory to beam out upon you. Mind Gods commands more then your own wants and complaints, and light will break in upon you. By obeying Christs commands, you shall gain more then you can give, by kissing the Son you shall even command him, and make him and assurance yours.
Did you make more conscience to act answerable to the forementioned commands, I am very apt to believe, that the Sun of Righteousness, would certainly and speedily cause his love, and glory to beam out upon you. Minde Gods commands more then your own wants and complaints, and light will break in upon you. By obeying Christs commands, you shall gain more then you can give, by kissing the Son you shall even command him, and make him and assurance yours.
The ninth Motive to provoke you1 to get assurance, is this, You cannot ⟨p. 248⟩gratify Satan more, nor injury your selves more, then by living without assurance; by living without assurance, you lay your selves open to all Satan's snares and temptations; yea, you do instigate and provoke Satan to tempt you to the worst of sins, to tempt you to the greatest neglects, to tempt you to the strangest shifts, and to reduce you to the saddest straits. Ah Christians, in what, in what hath Satan so gratified you, that you should thus gratify him; hath he not robed you of your glory in innocency? hath he not kept your souls and your Saviour long asunder? when with Joshua you have been standing before2 the Lord? hath not he stood at your right hand, as an adversary to resist you? hath he not often set the glory3 of the world before you, that he might bewitch you, and ensnare you? hath he not often cast water upon those Divine Motions, that hath been