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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 one, who being sensible of his own dullness and coldness in Prayer, chid himself thus; What?1 doest thou think that Jonah prayed thus, when he was in the belly of Hell? or Daniel, when he was in the Lyons den? or the Thief when he was upon the cross? And I may add, or the three Children when they were in the fiery furnace? or the Apostles when they were in bonds and prisons? O that Christians would chide themselves out of their cold Prayers, and chide themselves into a better, and a warmer frame of spirit, when they make their Supplications before the2 Lord. An importunate Soul in Prayer, is like the poor beggar, that prays and knocks, that prays and waits, that prays and works, that knocks and knits, that begs and patches, and will not stir from the door, till he hath an alms. And verily, he that is good at ⟨p. 497⟩this, will not be long a beggar in grace; God will make his heart, and his cup to overflow.
I have read of one, who being sensible of his own dulness and coldness in Prayer, chid himself thus; What?1 doest thou think that Ionah prayed thus, when he was in the belly of Hell? or Daniel, when he was in the Lyons den? or the Thief when he was upon the cross? And I may adde, or the three Children when they were in the fiery furnace? or the Apostles when they were in bonds and prisons? O that Christians would chide themselves out of their cold Prayers, and chide themselves into a better, and a warmer frame of spirit, when they make their Supplications before the2 Lord. An importunate Soul in Prayer, is like the poor begger, that prayes and knocks, that prayes and waits, that prayes and works, that knocks and knits, that begs and patches, and will not stir from the door, till he hath an alms. And verily, he that is good at ⟨p. 497⟩this, will not be long a begger in grace; God will make his heart, and his cup to overflow.