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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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Fourthly, Assurance will exceedingly heighten you in your communion with God, and it will exceedingly1 sweeten your communion with God. Assurance of a mans propriety in God raises him high in his fellowship with God: There are none that have such ⟨p. 256⟩choice and sweet communion with God, as those that have the clearest assurance of their interest in God; as may be seen throughout the whole Book of Solomons Song. My beloved 2is mine, and I am his, saith the Spouse. I am assured of my propriety in him, says she, and therefore he shall lie all night betwixt my Breasts; and upon3 this account it is, that she holds King Jesus in the Galleries, that she is sick of love, that she is raised and ravished with his kisses and embraces. His left 4hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. None had more assurance of her interest in Christ, then she, and none higher and closer in communion with Christ then she. The Wives assurance of her interest in her Husband, sweetens and heightens her communion with her Husband▪ The Child's assurance of his interest in his Father, sweetens his commerce and fellowship with his Father: So the Believers assurance of his interest in God, will exceedingly heighten and sweeten his communion and fellowship with God. Assurance of a mans interest in God, sweetens every ⟨p. 256⟩thought of God, and every sight of God, and every taste of God, and every good Word of God. God is as5 sweet to the assured soul, when he hath a sword in his hand, as when he hath a Sceptre; when he hath the rod of indignation, as when he hath the cup of consolation; when his garments are rolled and dyed in blood, as when he appears in his Wedding Robes; when he acts the part of a Judge, as when he acts the part of a Father, &c.