Heaven on Earth

Sixthly, A well-grounded Assurance of Gods love, and of a mans Everlasting ⟨p. 557⟩Happiness and Blessedness, will exceedingly arm and strengthen him against all wickedness and baseness. No man loathes sin, and himself for sin,¹ as such a man; no man wars and watches against sin, more then such a man; no man sighs and mourns,² bleeds and complains under the sense of sinful motions, and sinful operations,³ more then such a man. Every stirring of sin makes a man that is under the power of Assurance, to cry out, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death! Psal. 85. 8. I will hear what God the Lord will speak; for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his Saints: And let them not turn again to folly, or as the Hebrew will bear, And they shall not return to folly. Gods speaking peace to his people, fences and fortifies them against folly and vanity.

Sixthly, A wel-grounded Assurance of Gods love, and of a mans Everlasting ⟨p. 557⟩Happiness and Blessedness, will exceedingly arm and strengthen him against all wickedness and baseness. No man loaths sin, and himself for sin,¹ as such a man; no man wars and watches against sin, more then such a man; no man sighs and mourns,² bleeds and complains under the sense of sinful motions, and sinful operations,³ more then such a man. Every stirring of sin makes a man that is under the power of Assurance, to cry out, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death!