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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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Now these, and such like Considerations, do exceedingly stir and provoke Believers to labour with all their might, to live up to their own principles, to get to the very top of Holiness; to be more and more a pressing towards the mark, and to think that nothing is done, till they have attained to the highest perfections, that are attainable in this life. It is true, many Hypocrites may go up some rounds of Jacobs Ladder, such as make for their1 profit, pleasure, applause, &c. and yet tumble down at last to the bottom of Hell, as Judas and others have done. Hypocrites do not look, nor like▪ nor love, to come up to the top of Jacobs Ladder, to the top of Holiness; as you may see in the Scribes and Pharisees, and all other Hypocrites that the Scripture speaks of.
Now these, and such like Considerations, do exceedingly stir and provoke Believers to labor with all their might, to live up to their own principles, to get to the very top of Holiness; to be more and more a pressing towards the mark, and to think that nothing is done, till they have attained to the highest perfections, that are attainable in this life. It is true, many Hypocrites may go up some rounds of Jacobs Ladder, such as make for their1 profit, pleasure, applause, &c. and yet tumble down at last to the bottom of Hell, as Judas and others have done. Hypocrites do not look, nor like▪ nor love, to come up to the top of Jacobs Ladder, to the top of Holiness; as you may see in the Scribes and Pharisees, and all other Hypocrites that the Scripture speaks of.
Thirdly, It is their greatest desire ⟨p. 302⟩