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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.
And thus I have endeavoured to show you what a wide difference there is betwixt the Prayers of the godly, and the ungodly; and by this, as by the former particulars laid down, you may see what Prayer that is that accompanies Salvation.
And thus I have endeavored to shew you what a wide difference there is betwixt the Prayers of the godly, and the ungodly; and by this, as by the former particulars laid down, you may see what Prayer that is that accompanies Salvation.
Now, in the seventh place, I shall1 show you what Perseverance that is that accompanies Salvation, and that I shall do in these following particulars.
Now, in the seventh place, I shall1 shew you what Perseverance that is that accompanies Salvation, and that I shall do in these following particulars.
- 1The seventh thing that accompanies Salvation, is Perseverance.
First, That Perseverance that accompanies Salvation, is, Perseverance in a holy Profession. Heb. 4. 14. Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, that is passed into the Heavens, Jesus the Son of God: Let us hold fast our profession by a strong hand, or by a hand of holy 1violence. So in Chap. 10. 23. Let us hold fast the profession of our Faith without