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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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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.
3. Great men have their signets upon their hands in precious esteem. Jere. 22. 24. As I live, saith the Lord, though Coniah, the son of Jehojakim King of Judah, were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence. ⟨p. 486⟩Ah says the Spouse, O highly prize me, Lord Jesus highly esteem of me, O let me be as dear and precious unto thee, as the signet that thou carriest about with thee, or as signets are to great men that wear them.