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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.
Certainly, you are the bosom Friends of ⟨p. 308⟩Christ, you are in the very heart of Christ, who prizes Christ above all, who lifts up Jesus Christ as high as God the Father lifts him, and that because of his rich anointings, and because all his garments smell of Myrrh, 1Aloes, and Casha. This is a work too high, and too hard, too great, and too noble, for all that are not new born, that are not twice born, that are not of the Blood Royal, that are not partakers of the Divine Nature.
Certainly, you are the bosom Friends of ⟨p. 308⟩Christ, you are in the very heart of Christ, who prizes Christ above all, who lifts up Jesus Christ as high as God the Father lifts him, and that because of his rich anointings, and because all his garments smell of Myrrhe, 1Aloes, and Casha. This is a work too high, and too hard, too great, and too noble, for all that are not new born, that are not twice born, that are not of the Blood Royal, that are not partakers of the Divine Nature.
Fifthly, Is not your greatest, and your hottest conflicts, against inward pollutions, against those secret sins,1 that are only obvious to the eye of God, and your own souls? The light of natures education, and some common convictions of the Spirit, may put men upon combating with those sins that are obvious to every eye; but it must be a supernatural power and principle, that puts men upon conflicting with the inward motions, and secret operations of sin,