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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.
Secondly, Waiting patiently on God, is a gift that brings thee within the promise of Everlasting Happiness and Blessedness. And he that hath but a waiting frame of heart, hath that, that God will eternally own and crown. Isa. 30. 18. And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you; for the Lord is a God of judgement. Blessed are all they that wait for him. Verily, it is no iniquity to pronounce them blessed, that God pronounces blessed; it is no piety, but cruelty and inhumanity, for any not to be as merciful to themselves, as God is merciful to them; not to have as sweet and precious thoughts of their present condition, as God hath. If God says the waiting soul is blessed, who dares judge, who dares say, it is not blessed? Let God be true, and every man a liar. Isa. 64. 4. For since the beginning of the world, men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, besides thee, what he hath prepared for him ⟨p. 286⟩that waiteth for him. Prov. 8. 34. Blessed is the man that heareth me; watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. Isai. 49. 23. They shall not be ashamed that wait for me: That is, I will never fail the waiting soul, I will never put him to blushing, by frustrating his patient waiting on me. The waiting soul shall bear the Bell, and carry away the Crown at last. Verily, glorious love and power, is as much seen in keeping up a poor soul, in a patient waiting on God, as it was in raising Christ from the Grave, and as it is in bringing souls to glory. Nothing can make the waiting soul miserable. Hold out Faith and patience, but a little, and 1he that shall come, will come, and bring his reward with him.
Secondly, Waiting patiently on God, is a gift that brings thee within the promise of Everlasting Happiness and Blessedness. And he that hath but a waiting frame of heart, hath that, that God will eternally own and crown.