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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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And thus I have showed you all the Requisites of Prayer, even of such Prayer as accompanies Salvation. I shall now proceed to some other particulars, for the further and fuller opening of this truth.
And thus I have shewed you all the Requisits of Prayer, even of such Prayer as accompanies Salvation. I shall now proceed to some other particulars, for the further and fuller opening of this truth.
Secondly, That Prayer that accompanies1 Salvation, betters the whole Man; by it Faith is increased, Hope strengthened, the Spirit exhilarated, the Heart pacified, the Conscience purified, Temptations vanquished, Corruptions weakened, the Affections inflamed, the Will more renewed, and the whole ⟨p. 504⟩Man more advantaged. Prayer is a Spiritual Chair, wherein the soul siteth down at the feet of the Lord, to receive the influences of his Grace: Prayer is the Regal Gate, by which the Lord entereth into the heart, comforting, quieting, strengthening, quickening, and raising of it. The Scripture affords us a cloud of witnesses to prove this truth, but I appeal to praying Saints, Ah tell me, tell me, praying Souls, have not you, do not you find it so? I know you have and do, and that is it that makes Prayer a pleasure, a paradise unto you.
Secondly, That Prayer that accompanies1 Salvation, betters the whole Man; by it Faith is increased, Hope strengthned, the Spirit exhilarated, the Heart pacified, the Conscience purified, Temptations vanquished, Corruptions weakned, the Affections inflamed, the Will more renewed, and the whole ⟨p. 504⟩Man more advantaged. Prayer is a Spiritual Chair, wherein the soul siteth down at the feet of the Lord, to receive the influences of his Grace: Prayer is the Regal Gate, by which the Lord entereth into the heart, comforting, quieting, strengthning, quickning, and raising of it. The Scripture affords us a cloud of witnesses to prove this truth, but I appeal to praying Saints, Ah tell me, tell me, praying Souls, have not you, do not you finde it so? I know you have and do, and that is it that makes Prayer a pleasure, a paradise unto you.