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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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Look not only upon some of the1 riches, the Jewels, the Pearls, that be rwapped up in the promises, but enlarge and expatiate your understandings to an effectual contemplation of all those riches and treasures that God hath laid up in the promises. Cast not the eye of your Faith only, upon one beam of the Sun, but endeavour to see all the beams of the Sun: Look not upon one branch of the Tree of Life, but upon every branch of that Tree; look not upon one bunch of the Grapes of Canaan, but look upon the whole Land. As understanding Heirs, when they come to read over their Evidences and Writings, they will see what they have in Houses, what in Goods, what in Lands, what in Money, what in Jewels, what at home, what abroad. They will not sit down, and say, Well, we find in our Evidences, that such and such Land is ours, and look no further; no, no, they will look all over, ⟨p. 373⟩and take exact notice of every thing; they will say, We have so much Land, and so much Money, &c. O beloved, there is much Marrow and Fatness, there is much Honey and sweetness, much Grace and Glory wrapped up in the promises. O press them, and oppress them, till you have got forth all the riches, and sweetness that is in them.
Look not onely upon some of the1 riches, the Jewels, the Pearls, that be rwapped up in the promises, but enlarge and expatiate your understandings to an effectual contemplation of all those riches and treasures that God hath laid up in the promises. Cast not the eye of your Faith onely, upon one beam of the Sun, but endeavor to see all the beams of the Sun: Look not upon one branch of the Tree of Life, but upon every branch of that Tree; look not upon one bunch of the Grapes of Canaan, but look upon the whole Land. As understanding Heirs, when they come to read over their Evidences and Writings, they will see what they have in Houses, what in Goods, what in Lands, what in Money, what in Jewels, what at home, what abroad. They will not sit down, and say, Well, we finde in our Evidences, that such and such Land is ours, and look no further; no, no, they will look all over, ⟨p. 373⟩and take exact notice of every thing; they will say, We have so much Land, and so much Money, &c. O beloved, there is much Marrow and Fatness, there is much Honey and sweetness, much Grace and Glory wrapped up in the promises. O press them, and oppress them, till you have got forth all the riches, and sweetness that is in them.