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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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I know I shall not speak long to Friends, Saints, or Sinners, therefore I was the more willing to take the opportunity of Preaching1 to you when I am dead; As Abel by his faith (he being dead) yet speaketh: So this Treatise may speak, and live, when I shall return to my long home, and fall asleep2 in the bosom of Christ. Christ his Prophets, and Apostles, though they are now in Heaven, yet by their Doctrines, Examples, and Writings, they still Preach to the Saints on Earth. Zisca desired his skin might serve the Bohemians in their Wars, when his body could no more do it: O that poor I, that have been but a little serviceable to the Saints in my life, might by this, and my former weak Labours, be ⟨image 19⟩much serviceable to them after my death! Books may Preach, when the Author cannot, when the Author may not, when the Author dares not; yea, and which is more, when the Author i• not.
I know I shall not speak long to Friends, Saints, or Sinners, therefore I was the more willing to take the opportunity of Preaching1 to you when I am dead; As Abel by his faith (he being dead) yet speaketh: So this Treatise may speak, and live, when I shall return to my long home, and fall asleep2 in the bosom of Christ. Christ his Prophets, and Apostles, though they are now in Heaven, yet by their Doctrines, Examples, and Writings, they still Preach to the Saints on Earth. Zisca desired his skin might serve the Bohemians in their Wars, when his body could no more do it: O that poor I, that have been but a little serviceable to the Saints in my life, might by this, and my former weak Labors, be ⟨image 19⟩much serviceable to them after my death! Books may Preach, when the Author cannot, when the Author may not, when the Author dares not; yea, and which is more, when the Author i• not.