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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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Eighthly and lastly, Gracious Souls do more eye and observe, how their own hearts are wrought upon in Prayer,1 then how others hearts are wrought upon. When they pray, they look with a curious eye upon their own spirits, they look with a narrow eye upon their own hearts, and observe how they are affected, melted, humbled, quickened, raised, spiritualized, and bettered by Prayer: But vain men as they pray to be seen of men; so they eye most how others like their prayers, and2 are affected and taken with their prayers; they are most critical in observing what operations their prayers have upon others hearts, but never mind (to any purpose) how they operate ⟨p. 516⟩upon their own hearts; a worse plague cannot befall them.
Eighthly and lastly, Gracious Souls do more eye and observe, how their own hearts are wrought upon in Prayer,1 then how others hearts are wrought upon. When they pray, they look with a curious eye upon their own spirits, they look with a narrow eye upon their own hearts, and observe how they are affected, melted, humbled, quickned, raised, spiritualized, and bettered by Prayer: But vain men as they pray to be seen of men; so they eye most how others like their prayers, and2 are affected and taken with their prayers; they are most critical in observing what operations their prayers have upon others hearts, but never minde (to any purpose) how they operate ⟨p. 516⟩upon their own hearts; a worse plague cannot befal them.
- 1Psal. 35. 13. My Prayer returned into my own bosom. Isa•. 26. 8, 9.
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