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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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Fifthly, No discouragements can take gracious Souls off from Prayer, but the least discouragements will1 take off carnal hearts from Prayer, as you may see in the following Scriptures, compared together, Psal. 40. 1, 2. & 44. 10-23. Matth. 15. 21-29. Mal. 3. 14. Isai. 58. 1, 2, 3. Amos 8. 3, 4, 5, &c. When one of the Ancient Martyrs was terrified with the threatenings of his persecutors, he replied, ⟨p. 511⟩There is nothing (saith he) of things visible, nothing of things invisible, that I fear, I will stand to my profession of the name of Christ, and contend earnestly for the Faith once delivered to the Saints, come on it what will. It is neither the hope of life, nor the fear of death, that can take a real Christian off from Prayer: He is rather raised then dejected; he is rather quickened then discouraged by delays or denials; he will hold up and hold on in a way and course of Prayer, though men should rage, and Lyons roar, and the Furnace be heat seven times hotter, &c. But it is not so with carnal hearts, Job 27 9, 10.
Fifthly, No discouragements can take gracious Souls off from Prayer, but the least discouragements will1 take off carnal hearts from Prayer, as you may see in the following Scriptures, compared together, Psal. 40. 1, 2. & 44. 10-23.