A77608:616
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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The fourth Support to keep their Support 4 hearts from sinking and breaking, that have lost that sweet Assurance that once they had, is, seriously to consider, that your loss is no greater, nor no sadder, then what the noblest and the choicest Saints have sustained, as you may see by comparing the Scriptures1 in the Margin together. Those that were once the Worthies of this world, and are now triumphing in that other World among the Princes of glory, have lost that sweet Assurance and sense of Divine love and favour, that once they enjoyed; therefore let not your spirits faint and fail. In temporal2 trials, it is a comfort and a support to have companions with us, and why should it not much more be so in spirituals?
The fourth Support to keep their Support 4 hearts from sinking and breaking, that have lost that sweet Assurance that once they had, is, seriously to consider, that your loss is no greater, nor no sadder, then what the noblest and the choicest Saints have sustained, as you may see by comparing the Scriptures1 in the Margent together. Those that were once the Worthies of this world, and are now triumphing in that other World among the Princes of glory, have lost that sweet Assurance and sense of Divine love and favor, that once they enjoyed; therefore let not your spirits faint and fail. In temporal2 trials, it is a comfort and a support to have companions with us, and why should it not much more be so in spirituals?