A77608:578
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 third Handmaid or Companion1 that attends Assurance, is, holy Joy; Ah this Assurance causes the strong waters of Consolation to overflow the Soul; Assurance raises the strongest joys in the Soul, Luk. 1. 46, 47. And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the ⟨p. 563⟩Lord, and my Spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. When a man comes to be assured that God is his Saviour, presently his Spirit rejoices in God; this truth is held forth by three Parables in that of Luk. 15. So in that of 1 Pet. 1. 8, 9. Whom having not seen, ye love, in 2whom though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. O the Joy, the Joy, the inexpressible Joy that attends a well-grounded Assurance! Assurance raises a Paradise of delight in the soul, In quibus operamur, in ill is & gaudemus, saith Tertull. In what things or persons we act, in those things we rejoice; a Christian (under the power of Assurance) works all his works in Christ, in him therefore, and in him alone, he rejoiceth.
The third Handmaid or Companion1 that attends Assurance, is, holy Joy; Ah this Assurance causes the strong waters of Consolation to overflow the Soule; Assurance raises the strongest joyes in the Soul, Luk. 1. 46, 47. And Mary said, My soul doth magnifie the ⟨p. 563⟩Lord, and my Spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour. When a man comes to be assured that God is his Savior, presently his Spirit rejoyces in God; this truth is held forth by three Parables in that of