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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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Eighthly, and lastly, A well-grounded Assurance sometimes springs from the Testimony and Witness of the Spirit of God. The Spirit sometimes witnesses to a Believers spirit that he is born of God, that he is beloved of God, that he hath union ⟨p. 564⟩and communion with God, & that he shall reign for ever with God, Rom. 8. 16. The Spirit it self beareth witness with our 1spirit, that we are the children of God. The Spirit it self witnesseth, not only the Gifts and Graces of the Spirit, but the Spirit it self witnesseth together with our own spirit that we are the children of God. Sometimes the Saints have two Witnesses joining their testimonies together to confirm and establish them in these blessed and glorious Truths, that they are the Sons of God, and Heirs of Glory: And this is their honour, as well as their comfort, that the blessed Spirit should bear witness at the bar of their Consciences, that they are the Sons of God, 1 Cor. 22. 12. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God; That is, that we may know our Election, Vocation, Justification, Sanctification, and Glorification. A man may receive many things that are freely given of God, and yet not know them till the Spirit comes and makes them known to the soul.
Eightly, and lastly, A welgrounded Assurance sometimes springs from the Testimony and Witnesse of the Spirit of God. The Spirit sometimes witnesses to a Beleevers spirit that he is born of God, that he is beloved of God, that he hath union ⟨p. 564⟩and communion with God, & that he shal reign for ever with God, Rom. 8. 16. The Spirit it self beareth witness with our