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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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The sixth Means to obtain a well-grounded1 Assurance of your Everlasting Happiness, is, to be much, yea, to excel in those choice particular things, that may clearly and sully, difference and distinguish you, not only from the profane, but also from the highest and most glistering Hypocrites in all the world. It is nothing to be much in those duties and performances, wherein the worst of sinners may equalize, yea, go beyond the best of Saints. O but to excel in those things, that ⟨p. 295⟩the most refined Hypocrites cannot reach to. This cannot but much help you on in assurance: He that hath those Jewels in his bosom, that God gives only to his choicest favourites, needs not question, whether he be a favourite, &c. If he doth it, it is his sin, and will hereafter be his shame. But you may say to me, What are those choice particular things that may difference and distinguish Christs true Nathaniels from all other persons in the world? Now to this question, I shall give these following answers.
The sixth Means to obtain a welgrounded1 Assurance of your Everlasting Happiness, is, to be much, yea, to excel in those choice particular things, that may clearly and sully, difference and distinguish you, not onely from the prophane, but also from the highest and most glistering Hypocrites in all the world. It is nothing to be much in those duties and performances, wherein the worst of sinners may equalize, yea, go beyond the best of Saints. O but to excel in those things, that ⟨p. 295⟩the most refined Hypocrites cannot reach to. This cannot but much help you on in assurance: He that hath those Jewels in his bosom, that God gives onely to his choicest favorites, needs not question, whether he be a favorite, &c. If he doth it, it is his sin, and will hereafter be his shame. But you may say to me, What are those choice particular things that may difference and distinguish Christs true Nathaniels from all other persons in the world? Now to this question, I shall give these following answers.
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