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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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and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. And Jesus said unto him, This day is Salvation come to this house, for so much as he also is the son of Abraham. Before the Candle of the Lord was set up in Zacheus soul, he dearly loved the world, he highly prized the world, he eagerly pursued after the world; he would have it right or wrong, his heart was set upon it, he was resolved to gather riches, though it was out of others ruins. I, but when once he was divinely enlightened, he throws off the world, he easily ⟨p. 346⟩parts with it, he sets very light by it he looks with an eye of disdain upon it: His knowledge lifts him up above the smiles of the world, and above the frowns of the world; the world is no longer a snare, a bait, a temptation to him; he knows that it is more to be a son of Abraham (that is, to be taken into covenant with Abraham, to1 tread in the steps of Abraham's faith, as children tread in the steps of their fathers, and to lie and rest in the bosom of Abraham, as sons do in their fathers bosoms,) then to be rich, great, and honourable in the world. And this made him shake hands with the world,2 and say to it, as he to his Idols, Get you hence, for what have I more to do with you. Verily, that light, that knowledge, will never lead thee to Heaven, it will never possess thee of salvation, that3 leaves thee under the power of the world, that leaves thee in league and friendship with the world: If thy knowledge doth not put the world under thy feet, it will never put a crown of glory upon thy head. The Church hath the Moon under her feet (Revel. 12. 1.) that is, clothed with the Sun, ⟨p. 347⟩and that hath a Crown upon her Head.
and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. And Jesus said unto him, This day is Salvation come to this house, for so much as he also is the son of Abraham. Before the Candle of the Lord was set up in Zacheus soul, he dearly loved the world, he highly prized the world, he eagerly pursued after the world; he would have it right or wrong, his heart was set upon it, he was resolved to gather riches, though it was out of others ruines. I, but when once he was divinely enlightned, he throws off the world, he easily