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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.
Assurance will make your souls like the Laws of the Medes and Persians, that alters not, it will sweeten the darkest day, and the longest night, under variety of changes, it will1 make a man sit down with Habakkuk, ⟨p. 253⟩and rejoice in the Lord, and joy in the God of his Salvation.
Assurance will make your souls like the Laws of the Medes and Persians, that alters not, it will sweeten the darkest day, and the longest night, under variety of changes, it will1 make a man sit down with Habakkuk, ⟨p. 253⟩and rejoyce in the Lord, and joy in the God of his Salvation.
- 1Hab. 3. 17, 8, 19.
Thirdly, Assurance will keep the heart from an inordinate running out after the World, and the glory thereof. Moses having an assurance of the recompense of a reward, and1 of his love and favour, that is invisible, could not be drawn by all the honours, pleasures, and treasures of Egypt: He slights all, and tramples upon all the glory of the world, as men trample upon things of no worth. So after Paul had been in the2 Third Heaven, and had assurance, that no thing should separate him from the love of God in Christ; he looks upon the world, as a crucified thing. The world is crucified to me (saith3