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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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he knows that God is totus oculus, all eye; and therefore he cares not, though others have never an eye to observe him, to applaud him. Let God but secretly whisper him in the ear, and say, Well done good and faithful servant, and it is enough to his soul, enough to satisfy him, enough to cheer him, and enough to encourage ⟨p. 298⟩him in the ways, and the work of his God.
he knows that God is totus oculus, all eye; and therefore he cares not, though others have never an eye to observe him, to applaud him. Let God but secretly whisper him in the ear, and say, Well done good and faithful servant, and it is enough to his soul, enough to satisfie him, enough to cheer him, and enough to encourage ⟨p. 298⟩him in the ways, and the work of his God.
Secondly, He labours to get up to1 the very top of Holiness; he labours to live up to his own Principles: He cannot be satisfied with so much Grace, as will bring him to glory; but he labours to be high in Grace, that he may be high in glory. Phil. 3. 11. I desire, if by any means, I might attain unto the Resurrection of the Dead. That is, to that perfection that the dead shall attain to, in the morning of the Resurrection. Verily, that man is ripe for Heaven, who counts it his greatest happiness to be high in holiness; that man shall never be low in Heaven, a door-keeper in Heaven; that cannot be satisfied, till he be got up to the very top of Jacobs Ladder, till he hath attained to the highest perfection in Grace and Holiness. Psal. 45▪ 13. The Kings daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold. Her inward principles are all glorious, and her outward practise echoes to her inward principles, her clothing is of wrought gold. It was the honour, and glory of Joshua and Caleb, that they