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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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That Love doth accompany Salvation, I have formerly showed you; but now I shall show you what that Love is, that doth accompany Salvation, and that I shall do in these following particulars. I shall not speak of the firstness, freeness, fullness, sweetness, and greatness of Christs ⟨p. 446⟩love to us, but of that Love of ours that accompanies Salvation, concerning which I shall say thus.
That Love doth accompany Salvation, I have formerly shewed you; but now I shall shew you what that Love is, that doth accompany Salvation, and that I shall do in these following particulars. I shall not speak of the firstness, freeness, fulness, sweetness, and greatness of Christs ⟨p. 446⟩love to us, but of that Love of ours that accompanies Salvation, concerning which I shall say thus.
First, That Love that accompanies Salvation, is a Superlative Love, a Transcendent Love. True love to Christ doth wonderfully transcend1 and surpass the Love of all relations; The love of Father, Mother, Wife, Child, Brother, Sister, yea, Life it self. Psal. 73. & 25. Whom have I in Heaven, but thee? And there is none upon Earth, that I desire besides thee. Christ2 will be Alexander or Nemo, he will be all or nothing at all: There are the greatest causes of love, there are the highest causes of love, there are all the causes of love to be found in Christ; in Angels and Men, there are only some particular causes of love; all causes of love are eminently and only to be found in Christ. Col. 1. 19. It pleased