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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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To sin under Assurance, is to cast reproach upon Christ, to grieve the Spirit, to wound Conscience, to weaken your Graces, to blur your Evidences, to usher in Calamities, to embitter your Mercies, and to provoke the Tempter to triumph over your Saviour. Verily, that ⟨p. 560⟩Assurance is but presumption that works men to play with sin, to be bold with sin, to make light of sin, to walk on in ways of sin: Such Assurance will never bring a man to Heaven, it will never keep him from dropping into Hell, yea, it will double his damnation, and make him the most miserable among all damned, miserable, forlorn spirits. Ah Lord! from1 such an assurance deliver my Soul, and give me more and more of that Divine Assurance that makes sin to be more hateful then Hell, and that makes the Soul to be more careful to avoid the one, then it is fearful of falling into the other.
To sin under Assurance, is to cast reproach upon Christ, to grieve the Spirit, to wound Conscience, to weaken your Graces, to blur your Evidences, to usher in Calamities, to imbitter your Mercies, and to provoke the Tempter to triumph over your Saviour. Verily, that ⟨p. 560⟩Assurance is but presumption that works men to play with sin, to be bold with sin, to make light of sin, to walk on in wayes of sin: Such Assurance will never bring a man to Heaven, it will never keep him from dropping into Hell, yea, it will double his damnation, and make him the most miserable among all damned, miserable, forlorn spirits. Ah Lord! from1 such an assurance deliver my Soul, and give me more and more of that Divine Assurance that makes sin to be more hateful then Hell, and that makes the Soul to be more careful to avoid the one, then it is fearful of falling into the other.
- 1This made Auselm say, That he had rather be thrust into Hell without sin, then go into Heaven with sin.