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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.
Sixthly and lastly, Make it more1 and more your chiefest work to make plentiful provisions for the eternal welfare of your Souls. Your Souls are more worth then ten thousand worlds. All is well, if the Soul be well; if that be safe, all is safe, if that be lost, all is lost, God, Christ, and Glory is lost, if the Soul be lost.
- 1O anim• Dei insig••ta imagine, desponsata fidie, donata spiritu, &c. Bern. O divine Soul invested with the Image of God, espoused to him by Faith.
Worthy Sirs, Though others play the Courtiers with their Souls, yet do not you: The Courtier doth all things late, he rises late, and dines late, and sups late, and repents late.
Sirs, Is it madness to feast the Slave, and starve the Wife, and is it not greater madness to feast the Body, and starve the Soul? To make liberal provision for the Body, and none for the Soul? ⟨image 15⟩Do not they deserve double damnation, that prefer their Bodies above their Souls? Me thinks our Souls should be1 like to a Ship, which is made little, and narrow downwards, but more wide and broad upwards. Before all, and above all, look to your Souls, watch your Souls, make provision for your Souls: When this is done, all is done, till this is done, there is nothing done that will yield a man comfort in life, joy in death, and boldness before a Judgement Seat. Callenuceus tells of a Nobleman of Naples, that was wont profanely to say, He had two souls in