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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.
Ah but wicked men come off from Prayer with hearts more encouraged to sin, and more resolved to walk in ways of sin. Prov. 7. 14, 15-24. I have Peace-offerings with me; (saith the Harlot) This day have I paid my vows. Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. Come, let us take our fill of love, until 1the morning; let us solace our selves with loves. So in Jere. 7. 9, 10. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not, And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my Name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Wicked men are like Lewis, King of France, that would swear, and then kiss the cross, and then swear more bitterly, and then kiss the ⟨p. 515⟩cross: So they sin and pray, and pray2 and sin; and the more they pray, the more easily, resolutely, and impudently do they sin. They make use of Prayer to charm their Consciences, that so they may sin with more pleasure, and less regreet. Ah, what pains do such sinners take to go to Hell, and to arm their Consciences against themselves in that day, wherein they shall say, There is no help, there is no hope!
Ah but wicked men come off from Prayer with hearts more encouraged to sin, and more resolved to walk in ways of sin. Prov. 7. 14, 15-24. I have Peace-offerings with me; (saith the Harlot) This day have I paid my vows. Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. Come, let us take our fill of love, until 1the morning; let us solace our selves with loves. So in Jere. 7. 9, 10. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsly, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not, And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my Name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Wicked men are like Lewis, King of France, that would swear, and then kiss the cross, and then swear more bitterly, and then kiss the