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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.
Above all examples, Christ was exemplary in all Piety and Sanctity, in all Righteousness and Holiness, in the midst of a crooked and perverse Generation. And why then should not you be ex(mplary1 among those poor Creatures ethose black Angels, I had almost said) among whom you walk? It was the saying of Trajanus, a Spaniard (the first stranger that reigned among the Italians) Qualis Rex, tali• grex, Subjects prove good, by a good Kings example; so do Soldiers, so do Sailors, by the good examples of their Superior Commanders. Such Commanders as are examples of Righteousness and Holiness to others, are certainly high in worth, and humble in heart, they are the glory of Christ, and the honour of Religion.
Above all examples, Christ was exemplary in all Piety and Sanctity, in all Righteousness and Holiness, in the midst of a crooked and perverse Generation. And why then should not you be ex(mplary1 among those poor Creatures ethose black Angels, I had almost said) among whom you walk? It was the saying of Trajanus, a Spaniard (the first stranger that reigned among the Italians) Qualis Rex, tali• grex, Subjects prove good, by a good Kings example; so do Souldiers, so do Sailers, by the good examples of their Superior Commanders. Such Commanders as are examples of Righteousness and Holiness to others, are certainly high in worth, and humble in heart, they are the glory of Christ, and the honor of Religion.
- 1The Arabian•, if their King be sick or lame, they all feign themselves so.
Fifthly, As you are in public places,1 so lay out your selves impartially for the common good of all that have interest in you, or dependence upon