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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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First, Premise this with me. All real hungerings and thirstings after Righteousness, are earnest and vehement thirstings and longings, they are like Rachels longing for children, and like Samsons longing for water. Psal. 42. 1, 2. As the Hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God: My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God, when shall I come and appear before God? Philosophers observe, That of all Beasts the Hart is most thirsty by nature, but most of all thirsty, when she is hunted and pursued by Dogs: Says David, As the hunted Hart, as the wounded Hart, yea, as the She-hart, in whom the passions of thirst are strongest, panteth after the water-brooks; so doth my soul pant after thee, O God. A gracious ⟨p. 289⟩soul panteth and fainteth, it1 breatheth and breaketh for the longing it hath at all times, after the Righteousness of Christ, imputed and infused. The Greeks derive their word for desire, from a Root that signifies to burn.
First, Premise this with me. All real hungerings and thirstings after Righteousness, are earnest and vehement thirstings and longings, they are like Rachels longing for children, and like Samsons longing for water. Psal. 42. 1, 2. As the Hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God: My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God, when shall I come and appear before God? Philosophers observe, That of all Beasts the Hart is most thirsty by nature, but most of all thirsty, when she is hunted and pursued by Dogs: Sayes David, As the hunted Hart, as the wounded Hart, yea, as the She-hart, in whom the passions of thirst are strongest, panteth after the water-brooks; so doth my soul pant after thee, O God. A gracious ⟨p. 289⟩soul panteth and fainteth, it1 breatheth and breaketh for the longing it hath at all times, after the Righteousness of Christ, imputed and infuled. The Greeks derive their word for desire, from a Root that signifies to burn.