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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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Thus you see that that Obedience that accompanies Salvation, is, Ready, Free, and Cheerful Obedience.
Thus you see that that Obedience that accompanies Salvation, is, Ready, Free, and Chearful Obedience.
Fifthly, That Obedience that accompanies Salvation, is, Peremptory Obedience, Josh. 24. 15. I and my 1household will serve the Lord. He is fully resolved upon it, come what come ⟨p. 438⟩can, in the face of all dangers, difficulties, impediments, and discouragements, he will obey the Lord, he will follow the Lord; so those Worthies in the eleventh of the Hebrews (of whom this world was not worthy) obeyed Divine commands peremptorily, resolvedly, in the face of all manner of deaths and miseries. So Paul was obedient to2 the heavenly vision, though bonds did attend him in every place; he is better at obeying, then at disputing; I conferred not (says he) with flesh and blood: So Peter and John, and the rest of the Apostles, in despite of all threatenings and beatings, they obey the Lord, they keep fast and close to their Masters work. Whether it be right in the fight of God, to hearken more unto you, then unto God, judge ye; for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. And now Lord, behold their threatenings, and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy Word. And when they had called the Apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the Name of Jesus, and let them go. And they departed from the presence of the Council, rejoicing, that they ⟨p. 439⟩were counted worthy to suffer shame for his Name. And daily in the Temple, and in every House, they ceased not to Teach and Preach Jesus Christ.