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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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Again, Hope is exercised about the glory and felicity, the happiness1 and blessedness that is at Gods right hand. Tit. 2. 13. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Hope makes a man stretch out his neck, and put forth his hand, and look as earnestly for the glorious appearing of Christ, as Sisera's Mother did for the happy return of her Son. The hoping Soul is often a sighing it out, Why are his Chariot Wheels so long a coming. Col 1. 5. For the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven. Hope in this place2 is taken by a Metonymy, for the things hoped for, viz. All that glory and felicity, that blessedness and happiness, that is laid up for us in Heaven. So in Heb. 6. 18. Who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Hope here is put for the object of Hope, viz. Heaven and Happiness. Hope lays such fast hold (as the Greek word here3 signifies) upon Heaven and Happiness, that none shall ever be able to take those precious things out of Hopes ⟨p. 529⟩hand. So Hope is put for the glorious things hoped for, Ephes. 1. 18. And thus you see those precious and glorious objects, about which that Hope that accompanies Salvation is exercised.
Again, Hope is exercised about the glory and felicity, the happiness1 and blessedness that is at Gods right hand. Tit. 2. 13. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Hope makes a man stretch out his neck, and put forth his hand, and look as earnestly for the glorious appearing of Christ, as Sisera's Mother did for the happy return of her Son. The hoping Soul is often a sighing it out, Why are his Charriot Wheels so long a coming. Col 1. 5. For the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven. Hope in this place