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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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The third thing that I am to show you, is, What Repentance that is that accompanies Salvation. That Repentance doth accompany Salvation, I have formerly showed. Now I shall manifest in the following particulars what Repentance that is that doth accompany Salvation, that comprehends Salvation, that boarders upon Salvation.
The third thing that I am to shew you, is, What Repentance that is that accompanies Salvation. That Repentance doth accompany Salvation, I have formerly shewed. Now I shall manifest in the following particulars what Repentance that is that doth accompany Salvation, that comprehends Salvation, that boarders upon Salvation.
First, That Repentance that accompanies Salvation, is a general, a universal change of the whole man; a change in every part, though it be but in part. That Repentance that accompanies Salvation, changes both heart and life, word and work; it makes an Ethiopian an Israelite, a Leper an Angel. Wash ye, make you clean; there is the change of your hearts: Put away the1 evil of your doings from before mine eyes, cease to do evil, learn to do well; there is the change of their practices. So the Prophet Ezekiel, Cast 2away all your transgressions (saith he) whereby you have transgressed; there is the change of the life: And make you a new heart, and a new spirit; there is the change of the heart. That Repentance ⟨p. 406⟩that accompanies Salvation,3 works a change in the whole man; in all the qualities of the inward man, and in all the actions of the outward man. The Understanding is turned from darkness to light; the Will from a sinful servility, to a holy liberty; the Affections from disorder into order; the Heart from hardness into softness: So in the outward man, the wanton eye is turned into an eye of chastity; the uncircumcised ear is turned into an obedient ear; the hands of bribery are turned into hands of liberality; and the wandering feet of vanity, are turned into ways of purity. And verily, that Repentance that changes a man in some part, but not in every part, that only makes a man a Herod, or an Agrippa, a half Christian, an almost Christian. That Repentance will never bring down Heaven into a mans bosom here, nor never bring a man up to Heaven hereafter. That Repentance that accompanies Salvation, makes a man all glorious within, and his raiment