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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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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 he) and I am crucified unto the world. The world is dead to me, and I am dead to it; the world and I am well agreed; the world cares not a pin for me, and I care not a pin for the world.
Thirdly, Assurance will keep the heart from an inordinate running out after the World, and the glory thereof. Moses having an assurance of the recompence of a reward, and1 of his love and favor, that is invisible, could not be drawn by all the honors, 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 he) and I am crucified unto the world. The world is dead to me, and I am dead to it; the world and I am well agreed; the world cares not a pin for me, and I care not a pin for the world.