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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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Thirdly, As that Obedience that accompanies Salvation, is free and willing Obedience, so it is cheerful and delightful Obedience; it is a Believers meat and drink, it is his joy and crown, it is a pleasure, a paradise to his soul, to be still obeying his Fathers will, to be still found about his Fathers business. Psal. 40. 8. I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy Law is in my heart. As the Sun rejoiceth to1 run his race, so do the Saints rejoice to run the race of Obedience. Gods work is wages, yea, it is better then wages; therefore they cannot but delight in it; not only for keeping, but also in keeping of his commands, there is great reward. Psal. 112. 1. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his Commandments; ⟨p. 437⟩that is, in the studying and obeying of his Commandments. Psal. 119. 16. I will delight my self in thy Statutes; I will not forget thy Word. Vers. 35. Make me to go in the path of thy Commandments; for therein do I delight. V. 47. And I will delight my self in thy Commandments, which I have loved. V. 143. Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; yet thy Commandments are my delight. Divine commands are not grievous to a lover of Christ; for nihil difficile amanti, nothing is difficult to him that loveth. The love of Christ, the discoveries of Christ, the embraces of Christ, make a gracious soul studious and industrious to keep the Commandments of Christ, in lip and life, in word and work, in head and heart, in book and breast.
Thirdly, As that Obedience that accompanies Salvation, is free and willing Obedience, so it is cheerful and delightful Obedience; it is a Believers meat and drink, it is his joy and crown, it is a pleasure, a paradise to his soul, to be still obeying his Fathers will, to be still found about his Fathers business. Psal. 40. 8. I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy Law is in my heart. As the Sun rejoyceth to1