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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.
Twelfthly, That Love that accompanies Salvation, shows it self by secret kindnesses, by secret visits, by secret expressions of love. A Soul that truly loves Christ, loves to meet him in a corner, to meet him behind the door, to meet him in the clefts of the1 Rock, where no eye sees, nor no ear hears, nor no heart observes. Feigned love is much in commending and kissing Christ upon the stage; but unfeigned love is much in embracing, and weeping over Christ in a Closet. The Pharisee loved to stand praying in the2 Market-place, and in the Temple; but Nathaniel was with Christ under the3 ⟨p. 483⟩Fig-tree; and Cornelius was at it in the4 corner of his house; and Peter was at it on the Leads; and the Spouse5 was at it in the Villages. Souls that truly love Christ, are much in secret visits, in secret prayer, in secret sighing, in secret groaning, in secret mourning, &c. True love is good at bolting of the door, and is always best when it is most with Christ in a corner. The secret discoveries that Christ makes to souls, do much oblige them to closet services.
Twelfthly, That Love that accompanies Salvation, shews it self by secret kindnesses, by secret visits, by secret expressions of love. A Soul that truly loves Christ, loves to meet him in a corner, to meet him behinde the door, to meet him in the clefts of the1 Rock, where no eye sees, nor no ear hears, nor no heart observes. Feigned love is much in commending and kissing Christ upon the stage; but unfeigned love is much in embracing, and weeping over Christ in a Closet. The Pharisee loved to stand praying in the2 Market-place, and in the Temple; but Nathaniel was with Christ under the