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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
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.
Secondly, Assurance will exceedingly sweeten all the changes of this life; this life is full of changes, Assurance will sweeten sickness and health, weakness1 and strength, wants and abundance, disgrace and honour, &c. while a man lives in the sense of unchangeable loves, no outward changes can make any considerable change in his spirit; Let times change, let men change, le• powers change, let Nations change; yet a man under the power of assurance, will not change his countenance, nor change his Master, nor change his work, nor change his ⟨p. 252⟩hopes; though others under changes, turn like the Chameleon into all colours2