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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.
To this Question I shall give these following Answers.
First, Souls that have lost that sweet Support 1 Assurance that once they had, may be supported and kept from fainting and sinking, by considering, that though they have lost their Assurance, yet they have not not lost their Son-ship;1 for once sons and always sons: You ⟨p. 590⟩are sons, though dejected sons; you are sons, though comfortless sons; you are sons, though mourning sons,2 Once children, and always children; once heirs, and always heirs; once beloved, and always beloved; once happy, and always happy. 2 Sam. 23. 5. Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an Everlasting Covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: For this is all my Salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow. Well, says David, though neither my self, nor my house, have been so exact and perfect in our walkings before God as we should, but we have broken our Covenants with him, and dealt unworthily by him, and turned our backs upon him, yet he hath made with me an Everlasting Covenant, he hath engaged himself in an Everlasting Covenant, that he will be my Father, and that I shall be his Son. And this is my Salvation, and an Everlasting Ground of Consolation, and Supportation to my Soul.
First, Souls that have lost that sweet Support 1 Assurance that once they had, may be supported and kept from fainting and sinking, by considering, that though they have lost their Assurance, yet they have not not lost their Son-ship;1 for once sons and always sons: You ⟨p. 590⟩