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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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Secondly, Faith is another of those special things that accompanies Salvation. 1 Thes. 2. 13. But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, Brethren, Beloved of the Lord; because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the Truth. 1 Pet. 1. 5. You 1who are kept by the power of God, through Faith unto Salvation. Vers. 9. Receiving the end of your Faith, even the salvation of your souls. Heb. 10. 30. But we are not of them who draw back to perdition; but of them that believe to the ⟨p. 322⟩saving of the soul. John 3 14, 15, 16.2 And as Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have eternal life; for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. Vers. 36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. Chap. 5. 24. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my Word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Chap. 6. 40. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one that seeth he Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day. Vers. 47. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, hath everlasting life.
Secondly, Faith is another of those special things that accompanies Salvation. 1 Thes. 2. 13. But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, Brethren, Beloved of the Lord; because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, thorow sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the Truth.