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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Ah knowing Souls, knowing Souls! do not deceive your selves; verily, if you are clothed with the comeliness and righteousness of the Sun, which is Jesus Christ, and have a crown of victory and glory upon your heads? You will have the Moon under your feet, you will tread and trample upon the trash of this world; all the riches, glories, and braveries of this world, will be under your feet, in respect of your non-subjection to it, and your holy contempt of it. If thy knowledge doth not enable thee to set thy feet upon those things that most set their hearts? thou art undone for ever, thy knowledge will be so far from lifting thee up to Heaven, that it will cast thee the lower into Hell. Therefore let no knowledge satisfy thee, but that which lifts thee above the world, but that which weans thee from the world, but that which makes the world a foot-stool: This knowledge, this light will at last lead thee into Everlasting Light.
Ah knowing Souls, knowing Souls! do not deceive your selves; verily, if you are cloathed with the comeliness and righteousness of the Sun, which is Jesus Christ, and have a crown of victory and glory upon your heads? You will have the Moon under your feet, you will tread and trample upon the trash of this world; all the riches, glories, and braveries of this world, will be under your feet, in respect of your non-subjection to it, and your holy contempt of it. If thy knowledge doth not inable thee to set thy feet upon those things that most set their hearts? thou art undone for ever, thy knowledge will be so far from lifting thee up to Heaven, that it will cast thee the lower into Hell. Therefore let no knowledge satisfie thee, but that which lifts thee above the world, but that which weans thee from the world, but that which makes the world a foot-stool: This knowledge, this light will at last lead thee into Everlasting Light.