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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.
And thus I have showed you the choice and precious objects, about which, that Faith is exercised that accompanies Salvation. I shall now in the next place show you the Properties of that Faith that accompanies Salvation, and they are these that follow.
And thus I have shewed you the choice and precious objects, about which, that Faith is exercised that accompanies Salvation. I shall now in the next place shew you the Properties of that Faith that accompanies Salvation, and they are these that follow.
The first Property of that Faith1 that accompanies Salvation, is this, It puts forth it self into vital operations, it makes a man full of life and activity for God; it will make a man diligent and venturous in the work, and ways of God. Faith is a most active quality in it self, and so it makes a Christian most active; it is a doing thing, and it makes the person doing, Faith will not suffer the soul to be idle; Faith is like the virtuous Woman in the last of the Proverbs, who put her hand to every work, who would suffer none of her Hand-maids to be idle; Faith puts the soul upon grieving for2 sin, upon combating with sin, upon weeping over sin, upon trembling at the occasions of sin, upon resisting temptations that leads to sin, upon fighting it out to the death with sin: ⟨p. 377⟩Faith puts a man upon walking with3 God, upon waiting on God, upon working for God, upon wrestling with God, upon bearing for God, and upon parting with any thing for God: Faith makes Religious duties to be easy to the soul, to be delightful to the soul, to be profitable to the soul: Faith makes the soul to be serious and conscientious in doing, to be careful & faithful in doing, to be delightful & cheerful in doing, to be diligent and faithful in doing.