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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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The seventh and last property of that Hope that accompanies Salvation, that comprehends Salvation, is this, It is permanent and lasting, it1 will never leave the Soul, till it hath lodged it in the bosom of Christ. Prov. 14. 32. The righteous hath hope in his death. The righteous mans hope will bed and board with him; it will lie down with him, and rise up with him, it will to the Grave, to Heaven with him; his Motto is, Cum expiro, spero, My hope lasts beyond life. The2 Jews ancient custom was, by the way as they went with their Corps, to pluck up every one the Grass, as who should say, They were not sorry, as men without hope, for their Brother was but so cropped off, and should spring up again in the morning of the Resurrection. And the Jews, to this very day, stick not to call their Golgotha's ⟨p. 542⟩(Bat Catim) the houses or places of the living.
The seventh and last property of that Hope that accompanies Salvation, that comprehends Salvation, is this, It is permanent and lasting, it1 will never leave the Soul, till it hath lodged it in the bosome of Christ. Prov. 14. 32. The righteous hath hope in his death. The righteous mans hope will bed and board with him; it will lie down with him, and rise up with him, it will to the Grave, to Heaven with him; his Motto is, Cum expiro, spero, My hope lasts beyond life. The2 Jews ancient custom was, by the way as they went with their Corps, to pluck up every one the Grass, as who should say, They were not sorry, as men without hope, for their Brother was but so cropt off, and should spring up again in the morning of the Resurrection. And the Jews, to this very day, stick not to call their Golgotha's ⟨p. 542⟩