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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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Lastly, That Love that accompanies Salvation, shows it self by working a true lover of Christ, to commit his richest Treasures, his choicest Jewels, to the care and custody of Christ. Where we love, we will trust; and as we love, we will trust: Little trust, speaks out little love; great trust, speaks out great love. The lovers of Christ, commend to Christs1 care, their Pearls of greatest price, their Names, their Lives, their Souls, their Crowns, their Innocency, their All. It was a notable saying of Luther, Let him that died for my soul, see to the salvation of it. Caesar received not his wounds from the swords of enemies, but from the hands of friends; that is, from trusting in them. Oh! but the lovers of Christ shall never receive any wounds, by trusting in Christ, by committing their choicest Jewels to his care; for he hath a powerful hand, ⟨p. 487⟩and a wise and loving heart. Christ will hold fast whatever the Father, or the Saints put into his hand. And thus I have showed you what that Love is, that doth accompany Salvation. I come now in the sixth place to show you, what Prayer that is that doth accompany Salvation. (But I see that I must contract what remains into a narrow room, lest I should tire out both the Reader and my self. Which that I may not, I shall endeavour by Divine Assistance, to mind brevity in what remains.)
Lastly, That Love that accompanies Salvation, shews it self by working a true lover of Christ, to commit his richest Treasures, his choicest Jewels, to the care and custody of Christ. Where we love, we will trust; and as we love, we will trust: Little trust, speaks out little love; great trust, speaks out great love. The lovers of Christ, commend to Christs1 care, their Pearls of greatest price, their Names, their Lives, their Souls, their Crowns, their Innocency, their All. It was a notable saying of Luther, Let him that died for my soul, see to the salvation of it. Caesar received not his wounds from the swords of enemies, but from the hands of friends; that is, from trusting in them. Oh! but the lovers of Christ shall never receive any wounds, by trusting in Christ, by committing their choicest Jewels to his care; for he hath a powerful hand, ⟨p. 487⟩