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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.
Sixthly, Assurance will very much embolden the foul with God, it will make a man divinely familiar with God, it will make a man knock boldly at the door of Free-grace, it will make a man come boldly before the Mercy-seat, it will make a man enter boldly within the Holy of Holies, Heb. 10. 22. Let us draw near with a true 1heart, in full assurance of Faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Assurance makes the soul top and top gallant, it makes the soul converse with God, as a Favourite with his Prince, as a Bride with her Bridegroom, as a Joseph with a Jacob. Luther under the power of assurance, lets fall this transcendent rapture of a during Faith (Fiat mea voluntas,) Let my will be done, and then falls off sweetly (Mea voluntas domine quia tua,) My will Lord, because thy will. It is the want of assurance that makes the countenance sad, the hands hang down, the knees feeble, and the heart full of2 ⟨p. 259⟩fears and tremblings. O therefore get assurance, and that will scatter your fears, and raise your hopes, and cheer your spirits, and give wings to Faith, and make you humbly bold with God. You will not then stand at the door of Mercy, with a may I knock, with a may I go in, with a may I find audience and acceptance; but you will with Esther, boldly adventure your selves upon the Mercy and Goodness of God.
Sixthly, Assurance will very much imbolden the foul with God, it will make a man divinely familiar with God, it will make a man knock boldly at the door of Free-grace, it will make a man come boldly before the Mercy-seat, it will make a man enter boldly within the Holy of Holies, Heb. 10. 22. Let us draw neer with a true 1heart, in full assurance of Faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Assurance makes the soul top and top gallant, it makes the soul converse with God, as a Favorit with his Prince, as a Bride with her Bridegroom, as a Joseph with a Jacob. Luther under the power of assurance, lets fall this transcendent rapture of a during Faith (Fiat mea voluntas,) Let my will be done, and then falls off sweetly (Mea voluntas domine quia tua,) My will Lord, because thy will. It is the want of assurance that makes the countenance sad, the hands hang down, the knees feeble, and the heart full of