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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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It is the excellency of Perseverance, that it keeps a Christian still in motion God-wards, Heaven-wards, Holiness-wards. It is a Grace that quickens a ⟨p. 522⟩man to motion, to action; it keeps a man still going, still doing. And Motion is the excellency of the Creature, and the more excellent any Creature is, the more excellent is that Creature in its motions; as you may see in the motions of the Celestial Bodies, the Sun, Moon, and Stars. Perseverance is a perpetual motion in ways of Grace and Holiness. Perseverance will1 make a man hold up, and hold on, in the work and ways of the Lord, in the face of all impediments, discouragements, temptations, tribulations, and persecutions. As the Moon holds on her motion, though the dogs bark; so Perseverance will make a Christian hold on in his holy and heavenly Motions, though vain men bark, and bite, &c.
It is the excellency of Perseverance, that it keeps a Christian still in motion God-wards, Heaven-wards, Holinesswards. It is a Grace that quickens a ⟨p. 522⟩man to motion, to action; it keeps a man still going, still doing. And Motion is the excellency of the Creature, and the more excellent any Creature is, the more excellent is that Creature in its motions; as you may see in the motions of the Celestial Bodies, the Sun, Moon, and Stars. Perseverance is a perpetual motion in ways of Grace and Holiness. Perseverance will1 make a man hold up, and hold on, in the work and ways of the Lord, in the face of all impediments, discouragements, temptations, tribulations, and persecutions. As the Moon holds on her motion, though the dogs bark; so Perseverance will make a Christian hold on in his holy and heavenly Motions, though vain men bark, and bite, &c.