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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 constant cry of Souls under the power of Assurance, is, Come taste and 1see how good the Lord is. Ah sinners, sinners, his ways are ways of pleasantness, 2and all his paths are peace; his commands are not grievous, but joyous; his yoke 3is easy, and his burden is light; not only for keeping, but also in keeping of 4his commands, there is great reward. Assurance will strongly put men upon ⟨p. 556⟩winning of others by counsel, by example, by prayer, and by communicating their Spiritual Experiences to them. Assurance will furnish a man with will, skill, and experience, to confute all those false reports that vain men frequently cast upon the Lord, and his ways. It will make a man proclaim to the world, That one 5day in the Lords courts is better then a thousand years elsewhere; That there are more glorious joys, more pure comforts, more abiding peace, more royal contents, more celestial delights, in one days walking with God, in one hours communion with God, &c. then is to be found in all things below God. And by these, and such like ways, Souls under the power of a well-grounded Assurance, do endeavour to make others happy with themselves. A Soul under Assurance is unwilling to go to Heaven without company; he is often a crying out, Father bless this Soul too, and crown that Soul too: Let us to Heaven together, let us be made happy together.
The constant cry of Souls under the power of Assurance, is, Come taste and 1see how good the Lord is. Ah sinners, sinners, his wayes are wayes of pleasantness, 2and all his paths are peace; his commands are not grievous, but joyous; his yoke