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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE PREFACE touching the nature of Assurance.
TO be in a state of true Grace, is to be miserable no more; it1 is to be happy for ever. A Soul in this state, is a Soul near and dear to God; it is a Soul much beloved, and very highly valued of God; it is a Soul housed in God; it is a Soul safe in everlasting Arms;2 it is a Soul fully and eminently interested in all the highest and noblest Privileges. The being3 in a state of Grace makes a ⟨image 21⟩mans condition happy, safe, and sure; but the seeing, the knowing of himself to be in such a state, is, that which renders his life sweet and comfortable. The being in a state of Grace will yield a man a Heaven hereafter, but the seeing of himself in this state will yield him both a Heaven here, and a Heaven hereafter; it will render him doubly blest, blest in Heaven, and blest in his own Conscience.
TO be in a state of true Grace, is to be miserable no more; it1 is to be happy for ever. A Soul in this state, is a Soul near and dear to God; it is a Soul much beloved, and very highly valued of God; it is a Soul housed in God; it is a Soul safe in everlasting Arms;2 it is a Soul fully and eminently interested in all the highest and noblest Priviledges. The being3