A77608:464
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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Seventhly and lastly, That Love that accompanies Salvation, is open love, it is manifest love, it is love that cannot be hid, that cannot be covered and buried; it is like the Sun, it will shine forth, and show it self to all the world. A man cannot love Christ, ⟨p. 460⟩but he will show it in these, and suchlike things as follow.
Seventhly and lastly, That Love that accompanies Salvation, is open love, it is manifest love, it is love that cannot be hid, that cannot be covered and buried; it is like the Sun, it will shine forth, and shew it self to all the world. A man cannot love Christ, ⟨p. 460⟩but he will shew it in these, and suchlike things as follow.
First, Divine Love makes the Soul even ready to break, in longing after a further, clearer, and fuller enjoyment of Christ. The voice of Divine love is, Come Lord Jesus, come quickly. 1Make haste my beloved, and be thou like to a Roe, or to a young Hart upon the Mountain of Spices. I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, which for me is best of all. It is a mercy, says Paul, for Christ to be with me, but it is a greater mercy for me to be with Christ. I desire to die, that I2 may see my Saviour, I refuse to live, that I may live with my Redeemer.
First, Divine Love makes the Soul even ready to break, in longing after a further, clearer, and fuller enjoyment of Christ. The voice of Divine love is, Come Lord Jesus, come quickly. 1Make haste my beloved, and be thou like to a Roe, or to a yong Hart upon the Mountain of Spices. I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, which for me is best of all. It is a mercy, sayes Paul, for Christ to be with me, but it is a greater mercy for me to be with Christ. I desire to die, that I