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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, A well-grounded Assurance doth always beget in the Soul an earnest and an impatient longing after, a further, a clearer, and fuller enjoyment of God and Christ. Psal. 63. 1. O God, thou art my God, (here is1 Assurance) well, what follows? Early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty Land, where no water is. The assured Soul cries out, I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ; And, Make haste 2my beloved; And, Come Lord Jesus, come 3quickly. O Lord Jesus, says the assured4 Soul, thou art my light, thou art my life, thou art my love, thou art my joy, thou art my crown, thou art my heaven, thou art my all: I cannot but ⟨p. 549⟩long to see that beautiful face that was spit upon for my sins, and that glorious head that was crowned with thorns for my transgressions. I long to take some turns with thee in Paradise, to see the glory of thy Jerusalem above, to drink of those Rivers of pleasures that be at thy right hand, to taste of all the delicates of thy Kingdom, and to be acquainted with those secrets and5 mysteries that have been hid from all ages, and to be swallowed up in the full enjoyment of thy Blessed Self.
Secondly, A wel-grounded Assurance doth alwayes beget in the Soul an earnest and an impatient longing after, a further, a clearer, and fuller enjoyment of God and Christ. Psal. 63. 1. O God, thou art my God, (here is1 Assurance) well, what follows? Early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty Land, where no water is. The assured Soul cryes out, I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ; And, Make haste