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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
That Love that accompanies Salvation, is like to the Oil in the Cruse, and the Meal in the Barrel, that wasted not; it is like the Apple-Tree of Persia, that buddeth, blossometh, and beareth fruit every month; it is like the Lamp in the story, that never went out; it is like the Stone in Thracia, that neither burneth in the fire, nor ⟨p. 456⟩sinketh in the water. Cant. 8. 6, 7. Love is stronger then death, many waters 1cannot quench it, nor th• floods cannot drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be contemned. Love will out-live all enemies, temptations, oppositions, afflictions, persecutions, dangers, and deaths. Loves Motto is (Nulli cedo) I yield to none. Love is like the Sun, the Sun beginning to ascend in his circle, never goes back until he comes to the highest degree thereof.
That Love that accompanies Salvation, is like to the Oyl in the Cruse, and the Meal in the Barrel, that wasted not; it is like the Apple-Tree of Persia, that buddeth, blossometh, and beareth fruit every moneth; it is like the Lamp in the story, that never went out; it is like the Stone in Thracia, that neither burneth in the fire, nor ⟨p. 456⟩sinketh in the water. Cant. 8. 6, 7. Love is stronger then death, many waters 1cannot quench it, nor th• floods cannot drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be contemned. Love will out-live all enemies, temptations, oppositions, afflictions, persecutions, dangers, and deaths. Loves Motto is (Nulli cedo) I yeeld to none. Love is like the Sun, the Sun beginning to ascend in his circle, never goes back until he comes to the highest degree thereof.
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