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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.
Now wicked men are heartless in all their Services▪ in all their Prayers, as you may see in comparing the following Scriptures together, (I shall not ⟨p. 513⟩transcribe the words, because I must cut short the work,) Isai. 29. 13. Matth. 15. 7, 8, 9. Ezek. 33. 30, 31, 32. Zach. 7. 4, 5, 6. 2 Chro. 25. 1, 2. As the body without the soul is dead, so Prayer,1 without the heart be in it, is but dead Prayer in the eye and account of God. Prayer is only lovely and weighty, as the heat is in it, and no otherwise. It is not the lifting up of the voice, nor the wringing of the hands, nor the beating of the breasts, but the stirrings of the heart, that God looks at in Prayer. God hears no more then the heart speaks; if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. No Prayer takes with God, but that which is the travel of the heart.
Now wicked men are heartless in all their Services▪ in all their Prayers, as you may see in comparing the following Scriptures together, (I shall not ⟨p. 513⟩transcribe the words, because I must cut short the work,) Isai. 29. 13. Matth. 15. 7, 8, 9. Ezek. 33. 30, 31, 32. Zach. 7. 4, 5, 6.