Heaven on Earth

Name: Heaven on Earth
Author: Thomas Brooks

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.

Thomas Brooks 1608–1680London: printed by R.I. for John Hancock, 1654

[50], 607, [1] p. · 126k words · Wing B4943 · ESTC R209539

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A Serious Discourse, touching A Well-grounded Assurance. › Chapter 5: Showing the several Ways and Means of gaining a well-grounded Assurance.A Serious Discourse, touching A Well-grounded Assurance. › Chapter 5: Shewing the several Ways and Means of gaining a wel-grounded Assurance.

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:416p. 409

A true penitent looks upon every sin as poison, as the vomit of a dog, as the mire of the¹ street, as the menstruous cloth, which of all things in the Law was most unclean, defiling, and polluting, (Pliny saith, that the very Trees with touching of it, would become barren.) And his looking thus upon every sin, turns his heart against every sin, and makes him not only to refrain from sin, but to forsake it, and to loath it more then Hell.

A true penitent looks upon every sin as poyson, as the vomit of a dog, as the mire of the¹ street, as the menstruous cloath, which of all things in the Law was most unclean, defiling, and polluting, (Pliny saith, that the very Trees with touching of it, would become barren.) And his looking thus upon every sin, turns his heart against every sin, and makes him not onely to refrain from sin, but to forsake it, and to loath it more then Hell.

1Isa. 30. 22. Nihil in lege menstruato immundius. Hieron.

:417p. 409–411

Thirdly, That Repentance that accompanies Salvation, is, not only a¹ turning from all sin, but it is also a turning unto God; it is not only a ceasing from doing evil, but it is also a learning to do well; it is not only a turning from darkness, but it is also a turning to light, as the Apostle speaks, Acts 26. 18. To open their eyes, and to ⟨p. 410⟩turn them from darkness to light, and ²

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