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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Fifthly, That Repentance that accompanies Salvation, is, very large and comprehensive; it comprehends and takes in these following particulars, besides those already named.

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1. It takes in a sight and sense of sin. Men must first see their sins, they must be sensible of their sins, before they can repent of their sins. Ephraim had first a sight of his sin, and then he repents and turns from his sin. After I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh, Jer. 31. 18, 19. A man first sees himself¹ out of the way, before he returns into the way; till he sees that he is out of the way, he walks still on, but when he perceives that he is out of the way, then he begins to make inquiry after the right way: So when the sinner comes to see his way to be a way of death, then he cries out, O lead me in the way of life, lead me in the way everlasting, Psal. 139. 24.

1. It takes in a sight and sense of sin. Men must first see their sins, they must be sensible of their sins, before they can repent of their sins. Ephraim had first a sight of his sin, and then he repents and turns from his sin. After I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh, Jer. 31. 18, 19. A man first sees himself¹ out of the way, before he returns into the way; till he sees that he is out of the way, he walks still on, but when he perceives that he is out of the way, then he begins to make inquiry after the right way: So when the sinner comes to see his way to be a way of death, then he cryes out, O lead me in the way of life, lead me in the way everlasting, Psal. 139. 24

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