A77608:295
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
In a word, Assurance will have a powerful influence upon thy heart; in all the duties and services of Religion, nothing will make a man love like this, and live like this; nothing will make a man humble and thankful, contented, and cheerful like this; nothing will make a man more serious in Prayer, nor ingenuous in praises then this; nothing will make • man more cheerful and joyful then this; nothing will make a man fit to live, and more willing to die, then this.
In a word, Assurance will have a powerful influence upon thy heart; in all the duties and services of Religion, nothing will make a man love like this, and live like this; nothing will make a man humble and thankful, contented, and chearful like this; nothing will make a man more serious in Prayer, nor ingenuous in praises then this; nothing will make • man more chearful and joyful then this; nothing will make a man fit to live, and more willing to die, then this.
Ah Christians, if ever you would act as Angels in this world, get an ⟨p. 266⟩assurance of another world, then you shall be dumb no more, nor dull no more, but be active and lively, like those whose hopes, and whose hearts are in Heaven.
Tenthly, Assurance will sweeten Christ, and all the precious things of Christ to thy soul. Ah, how sweet is1 the Person of Christ, the Natures of Christ, the Names of Christ, the Offices of Christ, the Benefits of Christ, the Blood of Christ, the Word of Christ, the Threatenings of Christ, the Spirit of Christ, the Ordinances of Christ, the Smiles of Christ, the Kisses of Christ, to an assured soul? Now thy Meditations on Christ, will be no more a terror, nor a horror to thee; nay, now thy heart will be always best, when you are most in pondering upon the sweetness and goodness, the kindness and loveliness of the Lord Jesus. Now all the Institutions and Administrations of Christ will be precious to thee upon every thing; where Christ hath set his Name, there thou wilt set thy heart. Now thou wilt call things, as