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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.
The second Handmaid or Companion1 that attends a well-grounded Assurance, ⟨p. 562⟩is Humility. David under Assurance2 cries out, I am a worm and no man; Abraham under Assurance cries out, that he is but dust and ashes; Jacob under Assurance cries out, that he was less then the least of all mercies; Job under Assurance abhors himself in dust and ashes; Moses had the honour and the happiness to speak with God face to face, he was very much in Gods books, in Gods favour, and yet a more humble Soul the earth did never bear. The great Apostle Paul, under all the revelations and glorious manifestations of God to him, counts himself less then the least of all Saints, Ephe. 3. 8. That is Presumption, that is a delusion of the Devil, and no sound Assurance, that puffs and swells the Souls of men, that makes men prize themselves above the market, above the value that God hath put upon them.
The second Handmaid or Companion1 that attends a wel-grounded Assurance, ⟨p. 562⟩is Humility. David under Assurance2 cryes out, I am a worm and no man; Abraham under Assurance cryes out, that he is but dust and ashes; Jacob under Assurance crves out, that he was less then the least of all mercies; Job under Assurance abhors himself in dust and ashes; Moses had the honor and the happiness to speak with God face to face, he was very much in Gods books, in Gods favor, and yet a more humble Soul the earth did never bear. The great Apostle Paul, under all the revelations and glorious manifestations of God to him, counts himself less then the least of all Saints, Ephe. 3. 8. That is Presumption, that is a delusion of the Devil, and no sound Assurance, that puffs and swels the Souls of men, that makes men prize themselves above the market, above the value that God hath put upon them.