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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 thus I have showed you from the Scriptures, what that Knowledge is that accompanies Salvation. Now the second thing I am to show you, is, What that Faith is that accompanies Salvation, I have formerly showed ⟨p. 362⟩you that Faith doth accompany salvation; but now I shall show you what Faith that is, that doth accompany Salvation, and that I shall do by Divine assistance thus.
And thus I have shewed you from the Scriptures, what that Knowledge is that accompanies Salvation. Now the second thing I am to shew you, is, What that Faith is that accompanies Salvation, I have formerly shewed ⟨p. 362⟩you that Faith doth accompany salvation; but now I shall shew you what Faith that is, that doth accompany Salvation, and that I shall do by Divine assistance thus.
First, That Faith that accompanies1 Salvation, that comprehends Salvation, that will possess a man of Salvation, is know first by the objects about which it is exercised, and secondly, by the properties of it. First, By the objects about which it is exercised. Now the objects of Faith are these.
- 1Fides est interdum id quod credimus, interdum id quo credimus. Aug.
First, The person of Christ is the1 object of Faith, it is Christ in the Promises that Faith deals with. The Promise is but the Shell, Christ is the Kernel; the Promise is but the Casket, Christ is the Jewel in it; the Promise is but the field, Christ is the Treasure that is hid in that field; the promise is a Ring of Gold, and Christ is the Pearl in that Ring; and upon this sparkling, shining Pearl, Faith delights