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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sixthly, The end of that Obedience that accompanies Salvation, is, Divine1 glory; the Eye of the obedient Soul, in prayer and praises, in talking and walking, in giving and receiving, in living and doing, is Divine glory. Rom. 14. 7, 8. For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself; for whether we live, we live unto the Lord, and whether we die, we die unto the Lord; whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lords. In all actions, the obedient Soul intends ⟨p. 440⟩and attends most Divine glory: If Satan, the World, or the Old man, do at any time propound other ends to the2 Soul, this great end, Divine glory, works out all those ends; for this is most certain, That which a man makes his greatest, and his highest end, will work out all other ends. Look as the light of the Sun doth extinguish, and put out the light of the fire; so when a man makes the glory of God his end, that end will extinguish and put out all carnal, low, base ends. That man that makes himself the end of his actions, that makes honour, riches, applause, &c. the end of his actions, he must at last lie down in eternal sorrow, he must dwell in everlasting burnings;3 the man is as his end is, and his work is as his end is; if that be naught, all is naught; if that be good, all is good, and the man is happy for ever.
Sixtly, The end of that Obedience that accompanies Salvation, is, Divine1 glory; the Eye of the obedient Soul, in prayer and praises, in talking and walking, in giving and receiving, in living and doing, is Divine glory. Rom. 14. 7, 8. For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself; for whether we live, we live unto the Lord, and whether we die, we die unto the Lord; whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lords. In all actions, the obedient Soul intends ⟨p. 440⟩