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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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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.
Secondly, To pray in a right manner, is to pray believingly, Heb. 11. 6. He 1that cometh unto God, must believe that he is; that is, that he is really, as good, as gracious, as glorious, as excellent, as constant, &c. as his word reports him to be. And that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Mark 11. 24. Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye 2receive them, and ye shall have them. In the Greek it is [Greek or Hebrew] in the Present tense, Ye do receive them, to show the certainty of receiving them: You shall as certainly receive the good things that believingly you ask in Prayer, as if you had them already in your hand. God will never let the hand ⟨p. 492⟩of Faith go empty away in Prayer: Faith is Gods darling, and he never fails to give it a worthy portion, a Benjamins portion, a Hannahs portion, a double portion, Jam. 1. 5, 6, 7. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering; for he that wavereth, is like 3a wave of the Sea, driven with the wind, and tossed. For let not that man think, that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. He that prayeth doubtingly, shuts the Gates of Heaven against his own Prayers.
Secondly, To pray in a right manner, is to pray believingly, Heb. 11. 6. He 1that cometh unto God, must believe that he is; that is, that he is really, as good, as gracious, as glorious, as excellent, as constant, &c. as his word reports him to be. And that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.