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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, Premise this with me,1 All real longings and hungerings in the soul after Righteousness, arises from Spiritual and Heavenly Considerations; they spring in the soul from some convictions, some apprehensions, some persuasions, that the soul hath of a real worth, of a real beauty, glory, and excellency that is in Christ, and in his Righteousness, imputed and impar•ed. ⟨p. 290⟩Such desires after Righteousness, that flow from external considerations, are of no worth, weight, or continuance; but those desires after Righteousness, that flow from Spiritual considerations, are full of spirit, life, and glory; they are such that2 God will not only observe, but accept; not only record, but reward.
Secondly, Premise this with me,1 All real longings and hungerings in the soul after Righteousness, arises from Spiritual and Heavenly Considerations; they spring in the soul from some convictions, some apprehensions, some perswasions, that the soul hath of a real worth, of a real beauty, glory, and excellency that is in Christ, and in his Righteousness, imputed and impar•ed. ⟨p. 290⟩Such desires after Righteousness, that flow from external considerations, are of no worth, weight, or continuance; but those desires after Righteousness, that flow from Spiritual considerations, are full of spirit, life, and glory; they are such that2 God will not onely observe, but accept; not onely record, but reward.
- 1Psal. 63. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 27 4.