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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Sirs, Be not weary of Public Work, it is honour enough that God will make any use of you to carry on his design in the world; he is a faithful Pay-master, Heaven at last will make amends for all; you shall reap, if you faint not. I do verily believe, God will make use of you to do greater things on the Sea, then yet have been done. The Lord hath now begun to set a foot upon the Sea, let his enemies tremble, God will not suffer his glory to be buried in the deeps; he is a shaking the Nations, and will not leave shaking them, till he that is the desire of all Nations come. The Lord hath ⟨image 14⟩said, That he will overturn, overturn, overturn until he comes, whose right it is to wear the Crown, and the Diadem, and he will give it him, Ezek. 21. 25, 26, 27. Till then there will be little else, but plucking up and breaking down.1 Therefore be courageous and follow the Lamb wheresoever he goes. You need fear no enemies, that have Christ the Conqueror on your sides.
Sirs, Be not weary of Publick Work, it is honor enough that God will make any use of you to carry on his design in the world; he is a faithful Pay-master, Heaven at last will make amends for all; you shall reap, if you faint not. I do verily believe, God will make use of you to do greater things on the Sea, then yet have been done. The Lord hath now begun to set a foot upon the Sea, let his enemies tremble, God will not suffer his glory to be buried in the deeps; he is a shaking the Nations, and will not leave shaking them, till he that is the desire of all Nations come. The Lord hath ⟨image 14⟩said, That he will overturn, overturn, overturn until he comes, whose right it is to wear the Crown, and the Diadem, and he will give it him, Ezek. 21. 25, 26, 27. Till then there will be little else, but plucking up and breaking down.1 Therefore be couragious and follow the Lamb wheresoever he goes. You need fear no enemies, that have Christ the Conqueror on your sides.