A77608:583
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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Secondly, The testimony and witness of the Spirit of Christ is only ⟨p. 567⟩gained & enjoyed in holy and heavenly ways, as you may clearly see by comparing1 the Scriptures in the margin together. The Spirit of the Lord is a holy spirit, & he cannot, he will not make any report of the love of the Father to the soul out of a way of holiness. Verily all those glorious reports that many boast they have met with, in sinful ways, in wretched and ungodly ways, are from the hissing of the old Serpent, and not from the whisperings of the2 Spirit of Grace. I think it is little less then blasphemy, for any to affirm, that the blessed Spirit of Christ doth make reports of the love and favour of God, to persons walking in ways of wickedness and baseness.
Secondly, The testimony and witnesse of the Spirit of Christ is onely ⟨p. 567⟩gained & enjoyed in holy and heavenly waies, as you may clearly see by comparing1 the Scriptures in the margent together. The Spirit of the Lord is a holy spirit, & he cannot, he wil not make any report of the love of the Father to the soule out of a way of holinesse. Verily all those glorious reports that many boast they have met with, in sinfull waies, in wretched and ungodly waies, are from the hissing of the old Serpent, and not from the whisperings of the2 Spirit of Grace. I think it is little less then blasphemy, for any to affirm, that the blessed Spirit of Christ doth make reports of the love and favour of God, to persons walking in waies of wickednesse and basenesse.