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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.
Many mens love to Christ, is like the Morning Dew, it is like Jonahs Gourd, that came up in a night, and vanished in a night: But that love that accompanies Salvation, is like Ruth's love, a lasting, and an abiding1 love; it is Love that will bed and board with the Soul, that will lye down and rise up with the Soul, that will to the fire, to the prison, ⟨p. 457⟩to the grave, to Heaven with the Soul.
Many mens love to Christ, is like the Morning Dew, it is like Jonahs Goard, that came up in a night, and vanished in a night: But that love that accompanies Salvation, is like Ruthes love, a lasting, and an abiding1 love; it is Love that will bed and board with the Soul, that will lye down and rise up with the Soul, that will to the fire, to the prison, ⟨p. 457⟩to the grave, to Heaven with the Soul.
- 1Ruth 1.
Sixthly, That love that accompanies Salvation, is an abounding1 love, an increasing love. Love in a Saint, is like the Waters in Noah's time, that rose higher and higher. The very nature of true Love is to abound and rise higher and higher, Phil. 1. 9. This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more.
Sixthly, That love that accompanies Salvation, is an abounding