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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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Fifthly, I have published this following Discourse, remembering that my life is1 but a vanishing vapour, and that the time of my sojourning in this world will be but ⟨image 19⟩short. Mans life is so short, that Austin doubteth, whether to call it a dying life, or a living death. Mans life is but the shadow of smoke, the dream of a shadow. This present life is not (vita, sed via ad vitam) 2life, but a motion, a journey towards life; the life of a Christian is rather (via then vita) a step towards life, then life: Yet do I believe that that is not a death, but life, that joins the dying man to Christ, and that is not a life, but death, that separates the living man from Christ.
Fifthly, I have published this following Discours, remembring that my life is1 but a vanishing vapor, and that the time of my sojourning in this world will be but ⟨image 19⟩short. Mans life is so short, that Austine doubteth, whether to call it a dying life, or a living death. Mans life is but the shadow of smoke, the dream of a shadow. This present life is not (vita, sed via ad vitam) 2life, but a motion, a journey towards life; the life of a Christian is rather (via then vita) a step towards life, then life: Yet do I believe that that is not a death, but life, that joyns the dying man to Christ, and that is not a life, but death, that separates the living man from Christ.
- 1Jam. 4. 14. Psal 39. 12.
- 2Bernard.