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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.
Now in the Eighth place, I shall1 show you, (very briefly) First, That Hope doth accompany Salvation; Secondly, What that Hope is that doth accompany Salvation.
Now in the Eighth place, I shall1 shew you, (very briefly) First, That Hope doth accompany Salvation; Secondly, What that Hope is that doth accompany Salvation.
- 1The eighth and last thing that accompanies Salvation is Hope. I shall gather up what I have to say concerning Hope, into as narrow a compass as I can, being unwilling to tire the Readers patience, and my own spirits. The Philosophers excluded Hope out of their Catalogues of virtues, numbering it among the perturbations; but God by his Werd hath taught us better.The eighth and last thing that accompanies Salvation is Hope. I shall gather up what I have to say concern•ng Hope, into as narrow a compass as I can, being unwilling to tire the Readers patience, and my own spirits. The Philosophers excluded Hope out of their Catalogues of vertues, numbering it among the perturbations; but God by his Werd hath taught us better.
First, That Hope doth accompany ⟨p. 523⟩Salvation, these Scriptures speak it out. Rom. 8. 24. For we are saved by hope. Gal. 5. 5. For we through the Spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. Ephes. 1. 18. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints.