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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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Fifthly, The testimony and witness of the Spirit, is a sure testimony, a1 sure witness, the Spirit is truth it self, he is the great searcher of the deep things of God, the Spirit of the Lord is the Discoverer, the Confuter, and Destroyer of all false spirits. The Spirit is above all possibility of being deceived; he is omnipotent, he is omniscient, he is omnipresent, he is one of the Cabinet-Council of Heaven, he lies, and lives in the bosom of the Father, and can call them all by name upon whom the Father hath set his heart, and therefore his testimony must needs be true. It is a surer testimony then if a man should hear a voice from Heaven pronouncing him to be happy and blessed. You may safely and securely ⟨p. 572⟩lay the weight of your souls upon this testimony, it never hath, it never will deceive any that hath leaned upon it. This testimony will be a rock that will bear up a soul, When other false testimonies will be but a reed of Egypt, that will deceive the soul, that will undo the soul; As I am afraid many in this deluding age have found by sad experience.
Fifthly, The testimony and witness of the Spirit, is a sure testimony, a1 sure witness, the Spirit is truth it self, he is the great searcher of the deep things of God, the Spirit of the Lord is the Discoverer, the Confuter, and Destroyer of all false spirits. The Spirit is above all possibility of being deceived; he is omnipotent, he is omniscient, he is omnipresent, he is one of the Cabinet-Councel of Heaven, he lies, and lives in the bosome of the Father, and can call them all by name upon whom the Father hath set his heart, and therefore his testimony must needs be true. It is a surer testimony then if a man should hear a voice from Heaven pronouncing him to be happy and blessed. You may safely and securely ⟨p. 572⟩lay the weight of your souls upon this testimony, it never hath, it never will deceive any that hath leaned upon it. This testimony will be a rock that will bear up a soul, When other false testimonies will be but a reed of Egypt, that will deceive the soul, that will undoe the soul; As I am afraid many in this deluding age have found by sad experience.