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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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Ninthly, Assurance will make a man1 very Angelical, it will make him full of motion, full of action, it will make him imitate the Angels; those Princes of glory that are always busy and active, to advance the glory of Christ; they are still a singing the Song of the Lamb; they are still pitching their Tents about them that 2fear the Lord; they are Ministering Spirits, sent forth for the good of them that are Heirs of Salvation. Assurance will make a man fervent, constant, and abundant in the Work of the Lord, as you may see in Paul. The3 assured Christian is more motion then notion, more work then word, more life then lip, more hand then tongue: When he hath done one work, he is a calling out for another. What is next Lord, says the assured soul, what is next. His head, and ⟨p. 265⟩his heart is set upon his work; and what he doth, he doth it with all his might, because there is no working in the Grave. An assured Christian4 will put his hand to any work, he will put his shoulder to any burden, he will put his neck in any yoke for Christ; he never thinks that he hath done enough, he always thinks that he hath done too little; and when he hath done all he can, he sits down, sighing it out, I am but an unprofitable servant.
Ninthly, Assurance will make a man1 very Angelical, it will make him full of motion, full of action, it will make him imitate the Angels; those Princes of glory that are always busie and active, to advance the glory of Christ; they are still a singing the Song of the Lamb; they are still pitching their Tents about them that 2fear the Lord; they are Ministering Spirits, sent forth for the good of them that are Heirs of Salvation. Assurance will make a man fervent, constant, and abundant in the Work of the Lord, as you may see in Paul. The