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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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Fifthly, That Love that accompanies Salvation, is lasting Love, it is permanent Love; the objects of it are lasting, the springs and causes of it are lasting, the nature of it is lasting. The Primitive Christians loved not1 their lives unto the death; Persecutors have taken away the Martyrs lives for Christ, but could never destroy their love to Christ. Ephes. 6. 24. Grace be 2with all that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity, or, in incorruption, as the Greek word signifies, whereby the Apostle gives us to understand, That true love to Christ, is not liable to corruption, putrefaction, or decay, but is constant and permanent, lasting, yea, everlasting.
Fifthly, That Love that accompanies Salvation, is lasting Love, it is permanent Love; the objects of it are lasting, the springs and causes of it are lasting, the nature of it is lasting. The Primitive Christians loved not1 their lives unto the death; Persecutors have taken away the Martyrs lives for Christ, but could never destroy their love to Christ. Ephes. 6. 24. Grace be 2with all that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity, or, in incorruption, as the Greek word signifies, whereby the Apostle gives us to understand, That true love to Christ, is not liable to corruption, putrifaction, or decay, but is constant and permanent, lasting, yea, everlasting.
- 1Revel. 12. 11.
- 21 Cor. 13. 8. Love never faileth, or as it is in the Greek [Greek or Hebrew], never falleth away, but shall last for ever in Heaven; in which respect the Apostle lifts it up above Faith, Hope, and all the common gifts of the Spirit, in the same Chapter.