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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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Ninthly, That Love that accompanies Salvation, doth manifest and show it self by working the Soul to be quiet, and still under Christs rebukes.1 Peter sits down quiet under a threefold reproof; Lord thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee. So Eli, It is 2the Lord, let him do what seems good in his ⟨p. 477⟩own eyes. And Aaron holds his peace,3 when he saw the flames about his sons ears: So David, I was dumb, I opened 4not my mouth, because thou didst it. The lovers of Christ are like the Scythian, that went naked in the Snow; and when Alexander wondered how he could endure it, he answered, I am all forehead. O the lovers of Christ are all forehead, to bear the rebukes of the Lord Jesus.
Ninthly, That Love that accompanies Salvation, doth manifest and shew it self by working the Soul to be quiet, and still under Christs rebukes.1 Peter sits down quiet under a threefold reproof; Lord thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee. So Eli, It is 2the Lord, let him do what seems good in his ⟨p. 477⟩own eyes. And Aaron holds his peace,3 when he saw the flames about his sons ears: So David, I was dumb, I opened 4not my mouth, because thou didst it. The lovers of Christ are like the Scythian, that went naked in the Snow; and when Alexander wondered how he could endure it, he answered, I am all forehead. O the lovers of Christ are all forehead, to bear the rebukes of the Lord Jesus.