A77608:603
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.
Eighthly, If you would maintain ⟨p. 588⟩and keep your Assurance, then frequently1 and seriously consider of the wonderful difficulty of recovering Assurance when it is lost; Oh the sighs, the groans, the complaints, the prayers, the tears, the heart-renting, the soul-bleeding that the recovery of thy lost Assurance will cost. The gaming of Assurance at first cost thee dear, but the regaining of it (if thou shouldest be so unhappy as to lose it) will put thee to more pains and charge. Of the two it is easier to keep Assurance now thou hast it, then to recover it when thou hast lost it. It is easier to keep the house in reparations, then when it is fallen to build it up.
Eighthly, If you would maintain ⟨p. 588⟩and keep your Assurance, then freequently1 and seriously consider of the wonderfull difficulty of recovering Assurance when it is lost; Oh the sighs, the groans, the complaints, the prayers, the tears, the heart-renting, the soul-bleeding that the recovery of thy lost Assurance will cost. The gaming of Assurance at first cost thee dear, but the regaining of it (if thou shouldest be so unhappy as to lose it) will put thee to more pains and charge. Of the two it is easier to keep Assurance now thou hast it, then to recover it when thou hast lost it. It is easier to keep the house in reparations, then when it is fallen to build it up.
- 1A man may easier make a seeing eye blind, then a blind eye to see; a man may soon put an instrument out of tune, but not so soon put it in again; A man is easily born down the stream, but cannot swim so easily up the stream. &c.A man may easier make a seeing eie blind, then a blind eye to see; a man may soon put an instrument out of tune, but not so soon put it in again; A man is easily born down the stream, but cannot swim so easily up the stream. &c.