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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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Surely shall one say, In the Lord have I righteousness and strength. The actings of Faith on this blessed Righteousness, doth most glad and rejoice the soul. Isa. 61. 10. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God, for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness. The actings of Faith upon this complete Righteousness of Christ, renders souls just and righteous, pure and holy, in the account of God. Rom. 10. 4. For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness, to every one that believeth. Christ fulfils the Law for Believers, and they by believing do fulfil the Law in him; and so Christ by doing, and they by believing in him, that doth it, do fulfil the Law, and so are reputed fair and spotless, complete and perfect, before the Throne of God. Faiths putting this righteousness on the soul, brings down blessings upon the soul: When ⟨p. 369⟩Jacob had put on his elder Brothers1 garment, he carried the blessing away. The actings of Faith upon this Peerless Righteousness of Christ, brings down the blessing of Peace, and the2 blessing of Joy, and the blessing of Remission of sins; and in a word, all other blessings that contributes to the making us blessed here, and happy hereafter, &c.
Surely shall one say, In the Lord have I righteousness and strength. The actings of Faith on this blessed Righteousness, doth most glad and rejoyce the soul. Isa. 61. 10. I will greatly rejoyce in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God, for he hath cloathed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness. The actings of Faith upon this compleat Righteousness of Christ, renders souls just and righteous, pure and holy, in the account of God. Rom. 10. 4. For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness, to every one that believeth. Christ fulfils the Law for Believers, and they by believing do fulfil the Law in him; and so Christ by doing, and they by believing in him, that doth it, do fulfil the Law, and so are reputed fair and spotless, compleat and perfect, before the Throne of God. Faiths putting this righteousness on the soul, brings down blessings upon the soul: When