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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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The Lovers of Christ know, That all his rebukes are from love; whom he 1loves, he rebukes; they can see smiles through Christs frowns: They know, that to argue that Christ hates them, because he rebukes them, is the Devils Logic; They know, that all the rebukes of Christ, are in order to their internal and eternal good, and that quiets them; They know, that all the rebukes of Christ are but fore-runners of some glorious manifestations of greater love to their souls. Psal. 71. 20, 21. Thou which hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the Earth. Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every ⟨p. 478⟩side. They know that it is the forest judgment in the world, to go on freely in a way of sin without rebukes. Ephraim is joined to Idols, let him alone. 2And therefore they keep silence before the Lord, they lay one hand upon their mouths, and the other upon their hearts, and so sit mute before the Holy One.
The Lovers of Christ know, That all his rebukes are from love; whom he 1loves, he rebukes; they can see smiles thorow Christs frowns: They know, that to argue that Christ hates them, because he rebukes them, is the Devils Logick; They know, that all the rebukes of Christ, are in order to their internal and eternal good, and that quiets them; They know, that all the rebukes of Christ are but fore-runners of some glorious manifestations of greater love to their souls. Psal. 71. 20, 21. Thou which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the Earth. Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every ⟨p. 478⟩side. They know that it is the forest judgment in the world, to go on freely in a way of sin without rebukes. Ebhraim is joyned to Idols, let him alone.