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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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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.
Seventhly, If you would keep and maintain your Assurance, then take heed and watch against those very particular sins by which other Saints have lost their Assurance. Take heed of carnal confidence and security. David 1lost his Assurance by not guarding his heart against those evils. Again, take heed of a light, slight, careless, and negligent spirit in holy and spiritual things. The Spouse in the Canticles lost her Assurance, and her sweet communion with Christ, by her slightness of spirit. Again, take heed of a stout2 and unyielding spirit under the afflicting hand of God, this made God hide his face from them, Isa. 57. 17. In a word, take heed of tasting of forbidden fruit, remembering what Adam lost by a taste.
Seventhly, If you would keep and maintain your Assurance, then take heed and watch against those very particular sins by which other Saints have lost their Assurance. Take heed of carnall confidence and security. David 1lost his Assurance by not guarding his heart against those evils. Again, take heed of a light, slight, careless, and negligent spirit in holy and spirituall things. The Spouse in the Canticles lost her Assurance, and her sweet communion with Christ, by her slightness of spirit. Again, take heed of a stout2 and unyeelding spirit under the afflicting hand of God, this made God hide his face from them, Isa. 57. 17. In a word, take heed of tasting of forbidden fruit, remembring what Adam lost by a taste.
- 1Psal. 30. 6, 7.
- 2Cant. 5 2, 3, 6. compared.