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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.
And as you gratify Satan by living ⟨p. 250⟩without Assurance, so you wrong your own souls by living without assurance,1 1 In the point of comfort and joy, you wrong your own souls. 2 In the point of peace and content, you wrong your own souls. 3 In the point of boldness and confidence, you wrong your own souls. A man that lives without assurance lies his precious soul open to many blows and knocks, to many frowns and wounds, from God, from the world, from carnal friends, from hypocrites, and from Satan. Therefore as you would not, Christians, gratify Satan, and wrong your own souls, and exercise over your selves, spiritual cruelty and tyranny, which is the very worst of all cruelty and tyranny; give God no rest till he hath made known to you the sweetness of his love, and the secrets of his bosom; till he hath gathered you up into himself; till he hath set you as a seal upon 2his heart, as a seal upon his arm.
And as you gratifie Satan by living ⟨p. 250⟩without Assurance, so you wrong your own souls by living without assurance,1 1 In the point of comfort and joy, you wrong your own souls. 2 In the point of peace and content, you wrong your own souls. 3 In the point of boldness and confidence, you wrong your own souls. A man that lives without assurance lies his precious soul open to many blows and knocks, to many frowns and wounds, from God, from the world, from carnall friends, from hypocrites, and from Satan. Therefore as you would not, Christians, gratify Satan, and wrong your own soules, and exercise over your selves, spirituall cruelty and tyranny, which is the very worst of all cruelty and tyranny; give God no rest till hee hath made known to you the sweetnesse of his love, and the secrets of his bosome; till he hath gathered you up into himself; till he hath set you as a seal upon 2his heart, as a seal upon his arm.