A77608:617
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 fifth Support to bear up their Support 5 spirits, that have lost that sweet Assurance that once they had, is, for them to remember, and seriously mind, that though they have lost Assurance, yet they have not lost the blessed breathings, ⟨p. 595⟩and sweet influences of the Spirit1 upon them; witness their love to Christ, their longing after Christ, their fear of offending Christ, their care to please Christ, their high esteem of Christ, and their mourning for the dishonours, that by themselves or others are done to Christ, &c. A man may enjoy the warmth, heat, and influence of the Sun, when he hath lost the sight of the Sun: David had lost his Assurance, he had lost the sight of the Sun, and yet he enjoyed the warmth and influences of it upon his heart, as is evident in the One and fiftieth Psalm.
The fifth Support to bear up their Support 5 spirits, that have lost that sweet Assurance that once they had, is, for them to remember, and seriously minde, that though they have lost Assurance, yet they have not lost the blessed breathings, ⟨p. 595⟩and sweet influences of the Spirit1 upon them; witness their love to Christ, their longing after Christ, their fear of offending Christ, their care to please Christ, their high esteem of Christ, and their mourning for the dishonors, that by themselves or others are done to Christ, &c. A man may enjoy the warmth, heat, and influence of the Sun, when he hath lost the sight of the Sun: David had lost his Assurance, he had lost the sight of the Sun, and yet he enjoyed the warmth and influences of it upon his heart, as is evident in the One and fiftieth Psalm.
- 1Cant. 3. & 5. Micah 7. 7, 8, 9. compared. Isa. 8. 17.