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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.
Ah Christians, the way to assurance, is, Not to sit down sighing and complaining of the want of assurance, but it lies in your eying of the Spirit, in your complying with the Spirit, in your cleaving to the Spirit, in your following of the Spirit, in your welcoming of the Spirit, and in your honouring and obeying of the Spirit. As he said of the sword of Goliath, none like to that. So I say, no mans like to this, to gain a well-grounded ⟨p. 280⟩Assurance of a mans Happiness and Blessedness. And as he said, If there be any way to Heaven on horse-back, it is by Prayer: So I say, If there be any way in the world to assurance, it is by being fearful to offend, and careful to please the Spirit of the Lord; whose office it is, to witness to poor souls, the remission of their sins, and the salvation of their souls.
Ah Christians, the way to assurance, is, Not to sit down sighing and complaining of the want of assurance, but it lies in your eying of the Spirit, in your complying with the Spirit, in your cleaving to the Spirit, in your following of the Spirit, in your welcoming of the Spirit, and in your honoring and obeying of the Spirit. As he said of the sword of Galiah, none like to that. So I say, no mans like to this, to gain a wel-grounded ⟨p. 280⟩Assurance of a mans Happiness and Blessedness. And as he said, If there be any way to Heaven on horse-back, it is by Prayer: So I say, If there be any way in the world to assurance, it is by being fearful to offend, and careful to please the Spirit of the Lord; whose office it is, to witness to poor souls, the remission of their sins, and the salvation of their souls.