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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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I have read of a Jewel, that being put in a dead mans mouth, loseth all its virtue: Prayer in the mouth of a wicked man that is dead God-wards, Christ-wards, Heaven-wards, and Holiness-wards, is a Jewel that loseth all its virtue. Psal. 50. 16, 17. But unto the wicked, God saith, What hast thou ⟨p. 489⟩to do to declare my Statutes; or that thou 1shouldest take my Covenant into thy mouth? Seeing that thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. Bias, an Heathen, being at Sea in a great storm, and perceiving many wicked wretches with him in the ship, calling upon the gods, O, saith he, forbear Prayer, hold your tongues, I would not have the gods take notice that you are here, they will sure drown us all, if they should. You are wise, and know how to apply it.
I have read of a Jewel, that being put in a dead mans mouth, loseth all its vertue: Prayer in the mouth of a wicked man that is dead God-wards, Christ-wards, Heaven-wards, and Holiness-wards, is a Jewel that loseth all its vertue. Psal. 50. 16, 17. But unto the wicked, God saith, What hast thou ⟨p. 489⟩to do to declare my Statutes; or that thou 1shouldest take my Covenant into thy mouth? Seeing that thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behinde thee. Bias, an Heathen, being at Sea in a great storm, and perceiving many wicked wretches with him in the ship, calling upon the gods, O, saith he, forbear Prayer, hold your tongues, I would not have the gods take notice that you are here, they will sure drown us all, if they should. You are wise, and know how to apply it.
- 1Quid prodest voce invocare, quem operibus negas? Jerome. What availeth it to invocate him with thy voice, whom thou deniest in thy works?Quid prodest voce invocare, quem operibus negas? Jerom. What availeth it to invocate him with thy voice, whom thou deniest in thy works?