Heaven on Earth

Name: Heaven on Earth
Author: Thomas Brooks

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.

Thomas Brooks 1608–1680London: printed by R.I. for John Hancock, 1654

[50], 607, [1] p. · 126k words · Wing B4943 · ESTC R209539

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A Serious Discourse, touching A Well-grounded Assurance. › Chapter 5: Showing the several Ways and Means of gaining a well-grounded Assurance.A Serious Discourse, touching A Well-grounded Assurance. › Chapter 5: Shewing the several Ways and Means of gaining a wel-grounded Assurance.

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[ Earlier:554–569 of 637

:554p. 540–541

Now Hope purifies the heart and life thus, by keeping the purest objects, as God, Christ, the Word, and the Soul together; and by making¹ the Soul serious and conscientious in the use of all Soul-purifying Ordinances; and by being a fire in the Soul, to burn up all those corruptions, and principles of darkness, that are contrary to that purity and glory that Hope hath in her eye; and by working ⟨p. 541⟩the Soul to lean upon Christ, to live in Christ, and to draw purifying virtue from Christ, who is the Spring and Fountain of all Purity and Sanctity. And thus Hope purifies those that expect to be like to Christ in Glory.

Now Hope purifies the heart and life thus, by keeping the purest objects, as God, Christ, the Word, and the Soul together; and by making¹ the Soul serious and conscientious in the use of all Soul-purifying Ordinances; and by being a fire in the Soul, to burn up all those corruptions, and principles of darkness, that are contrary to that purity and glory that Hope hath in her eye; and by working ⟨p. 541⟩the Soul to lean upon Christ, to live in Christ, and to draw purifying vertue from Christ, who is the Spring and Fountain of all Purity and Sanctity. And thus Hope purifies those that expect to be like to Christ in Glory.

1How lively Hope makes the Soul in Religious services, I have showed in the third property.How lively Hope makes the Soul in Religious services, I have shewed in the third property.

:555p. 541–542

The seventh and last property of that Hope that accompanies Salvation, that comprehends Salvation, is this, It is permanent and lasting, it

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Heaven on Earth

CHAP. VI. Showing the difference between a true and a counterfeit Assurance, between sound Assurance and Presumption.

CHAP. VI. Shewing the difference between a true and a counterfeit Assurance, between sound Assurance and Presumption.

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CHAP. VI. Showing the difference between a true and a counterfeit Assurance, between sound Assurance and Presumption.

CHAP. VI. Shewing the difference between a true and a counterfeit Assurance, between sound Assurance and Presumption.

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