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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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Quest. But you may say to me, how shall we know the whispering of the holy Spirit from the hissing of the old Serpent? how shall we know the report, the witness, and testimony of the Spirit of Christ, from that report, witness, and testimony that the old Serpent deludes and deceives many by, in these days wherein he mostly appears in his Angelical Robes?
Quest. But you may say to me, how shall wee know the whispering of the holy Spirit from the hissing of the old Serpent? how shall we know the report, the witnesse, and testimony of the Spirit of Christ, from that report, witnesle, and testimony that the old Serpent deludes and deceives many by, in these daies wherein he mostly appears in his Angelicall Robes?
I Answer, you may know the whispering Answ. of the Spirit, from the hissing of the old Serpent, &c. by these following things, which I desire that you would seriously consider, as you tender the peace, and settlement, the satisfaction, consolation, and salvation of your own souls.
First, The Spirit of Christ doth not witness by any outward voice, as God1 did from Heaven of Christ; nor by an Angel, as to the Virgin Mary; but by an inward, secret, glorious and unspeakable way, he bids Believers be of good cheer, their sins are forgiven2 them, as Christ said to the palsy man in the Gospel. And this truth is to be solemnly minded against those ⟨p. 566⟩poor deceived and deluded souls in3