A77608:308
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.
Fourthly, If you would obtain Assurance,1 then be sincere, be diligent and constant in assuring Ordinances: He that will meet the King, must wait2 on him in his walks; Christs Ordinances, are Christs walks; and he that would see the beauty of Christ, and taste of the sweetness of Christ, and be ravished with the love of Christ, must wait at Wisdoms door, they3 must attend Christ in his own appointments and institutions, that comfort and assurance that flows not in through the Golden Pipes of the Sanctuary,4 will not better the soul, nor long abide with the soul, it will be as the morning dew, and as the flower of the field that soon fadeth away. I have ⟨p. 281⟩in the former Discourse, showed at large, How the Lord is graciously pleased to cause his love and glory, to beam forth upon souls in Ordinances; and therefore, I shall say no more unto this particular at this time.
Fourthly, If you would obtain Assurance,1 then be sincere, be diligent and constant in assuring Ordinances: He that will meet the King, must wait2 on him in his walks; Christs Ordinances, are Christs walks; and he that would see the beauty of Christ, and taste of the sweetness of Christ, and be ravished with the love of Christ, must wait at Wisdoms door, they3 must attend Christ in his own appointments and institutions, that comfort and assurance that flowes not in thorow the Golden Pipes of the Sanctuary,4 will not better the soul, nor long abide with the soul, it will be as the morning dew, and as the flower of the field that soon fadeth away. I have