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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, Souls truly gracious, pray more to get off their sins, then they do to get off their chains. Though Bonds did attend Paul in every place, as1 himself speaks, yet he never cries out, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from my Bonds, but O 2wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me, from my sins, from this body of death? David cries not, Perii, but Peccavi, 3Not I am undone, but I have done foolishly: But wicked men strive in Prayer, more to get off their chains, then to get off their sins, more to be delivered from enemies without, then lusts within, more to get out of the Furnace, then to be delivered from their Spiritual Bondage; as the Scriptures4 in the Margin do evidence.
Secondly, Souls truly gracious, pray more to get off their sins, then they do to get off their chains. Though Bonds did attend Paul in every place, as1 himself speaks, yet he never cries out, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from my Bonds, but O 2wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me, from my sins, from this body of death? David cryes not, Perii, but Peccavi, 3Not I am undone, but I have done foolishly: But wicked men strive in Prayer, more to get off their chains, then to get off their sins, more to be delivered from enemies without, then lusts within, more to get out of the Furnace, then to be delivered from their Spiritual Bondage; as the Scriptures4 in the Margent do evidence.