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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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such may talk of assurance, and make a stir and a noise about assurance, but it is the close walking Christian that shall be crowned with assurance. Assurance is a choice part of a Believers1 happiness, and therefore God will never give it out of a way of holiness. The Lord hath set apart for himself, the man that is godly, Psal. 4. 3. None ⟨p. 277⟩are favourites in Gods Court, nor none are admitted to be of his Counsel, but those who are all glorious within, and whose raiment is of embroidered gold: That is, such whose principles are full of spiritual glory, and whose practises are amiable and answerable in purity and sanctity. These are the persons that shall have the honour to have Gods ear, and the happiness to know his heart.
such may talk of assurance, and make a stir and a noise about assurance, but it is the close walking Christian that shall be crowned with assurance. Assurance is a choice part of a Believers1 happiness, and therefore God will never give it out of a way of holiness. The Lord hath set apart for himself, the man that is godly, Psal. 4. 3. None ⟨p. 277⟩are favorites in Gods Court, nor none are admitted to be of his Counsel, but those who are all glorious within, and whose rayment is of imbroidered gold: That is, such whose principles are full of spiritual glory, and whose practises are amiable and answerable in purity and sanctity. These are the persons that shall have the honor to have Gods ear, and the happiness to know his heart.
- 1Vis nunquam esse tristis bene vive. Wouldst thou never be fact, then live well, says Bernard.