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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.
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 2wavering (or as it is in the Greek, without tilting, or tossing to one side or other) for he is faithful that promised. Therefore let no temptation, affliction, opposition, or persecution, take us off from our holy Profession, but let us hold ⟨p. 517⟩our Profession with a forcible hand, yea, with both hands, in the face of all difficulties, dangers, and deaths. As Cynaegirus, the Athenian Captain, did the ship that was laden with the rich spoil of his Country.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
- 2[Greek or Hebrew], signifies, A forcible holding, a holding with both hands. [Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉, signifies, A forcible holding, a holding with both hands. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.