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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.
Seventhly and lastly, Perseverance is another of those prime things that accompanies salvation, Matth. 10. 22. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name sake: but he that endureth to the end the same shall be saved. Chap. 24. 12, 13. ⟨p. 326⟩And because iniquity shall abound, the love 1of many shall wax cold, but he that endureth unto the end the same shall be saved. Rev. 2. 10. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold the Devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; be thou 2faithful unto the death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Chap. 3. 5. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment, and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father and before his Angels. To him that overcometh, will I grant to sit with me in my Throne, as I also overcome and am set down with my Father in his Throne. Thus you see these seven choice things that accompanies salvation. But for your further and fuller edification, satisfaction, confirmation, and consolation, it will be very necessary that I show you,
Seventhly and lastly, Perseverance is another of those prime things that accompanies salvation, Matth. 10. 22. And yee shall be hated of all men for my name sake: but he that indureth to the end the same shall be saved. Chap. 24. 12, 13. ⟨p. 326⟩And because iniquity shal abound, the love 1of many shal wax cold, but he that indureth unto the end the same shal be saved. Rev. 2. 10. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold the Devil shal cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tryed, and yee shall have tribulation ten dayes; be thou