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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.
The tenth Motive to provoke you1 to get a well-grounded assurance, is this, consider the sweet profit and glorious advantage that will redound to you by ⟨p. 251⟩gaining assurance, and if the gain that will certainly redound to you by assurance, will not provoke you to get assurance, I know not what will.
The tenth Motive to provoke you1 to get a wel-grounded assurance, is this, consider the sweet profit and glorious advantage that will redown to you by ⟨p. 251⟩gaining assurance, and if the gain that will certainly redown to you by assurance, will not provoke you to get assurance, I know not what will.
- 1Motive 10.
First, It will bring down Heaven into your bosoms, it will give you a1 possession of Heaven, on this side heaven; an assured soul lives in Paradise and walks in Paradise, and works in Paradise, and eats in Paradise, and rests in Paradise; he hath Heaven within him, and Heaven about him, and Heaven over him, all his language is Heaven, heaven; Glory, glory.
First, It will bring down Heaven into your bosomes, it will give you a1 possession of Heaven, on this side heaven; an assured soul lives in Paradise and walks in Paradise, and works in Paradise, and eats in Paradise, and rests in Paradise; hee hath Heaven within him, and Heaven about him, and Heaven over him, all his language is Heaven, heaven; Glory, glory.