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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.
1. The seal you know is for ratifying, confirming, and making sure of things. O says the Spouse, establish and confirm me in thy love, and in the outward expressions and manifestations of it.
1. The seal you know is for ratifying, confirming, and making sure of things. O sayes the Spouse, establish and confirm me in thy love, and in the outward expressions and manifestations of it.
2. Seals among the Jews were used, not as Ornaments only, but as Monuments of love that were continually in sight and remembrance. O says the Church, Let me be still in thy sight and remembrance, as a monument of thy love. In the Old Law, you know1 the High Priest did bear the names of Israel engraven on stones, upon his heart and shoulder, for a memorial. Ah says the Church, Let my name be deeply engraven upon thy heart; let me be always in thy eye; let me be always a memorial upon thy shoulder.
2. Seals among the Jews were used, not as Ornaments onely, but as Monuments of love that were continually in sight and remembrance. O says the Church, Let me be still in thy sight and remembrance, as a monument of thy love. In the Old Law, you know1 the High Priest did bear the names of Israel engraven on stones, upon his heart and shoulder, for a memorial. Ah says the Church, Let my name be deeply engraven upon thy heart; let me be alwayes in thy eye; let me be always a memorial upon thy shoulder.
- 1Exod. 28. 11, 12, 21, 29. compared.