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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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Though thy Sun, O Christian, be set in a cloud, yet it will rise again, and in the interim, thou hast and dost enjoy the warmth and influences of the Sun; therefore sorrow not, mourn not, as one without hope. Those warm influences that the Sun of Righteousness hath now upon thy heart, are infallible evidences, that he will shine1 forth, and smile upon thee, as in the days of old; therefore let thy Bow still abide in strength.
Though thy Sun, O Christian, be set in a cloud, yet it will rise again, and in the interim, thou hast and dost enjoy the warmth and influences of the Sun; therefore sorrow not, mourn not, as one without hope. Those warm influences that the Sun of Righteousness hath now upon thy heart, are infallible evidences, that he will shine1 forth, and smile upon thee, as in the days of old; therefore let thy Bowe still abide in strength.
The sixth Support to keep their Support 6 ⟨p. 596⟩hearts from fainting and sinking, that have lost that sweet Assurance that once they had, is, seriously to consider, that it will be but as a day, but as a short day, before the loss of thy Assurance shall be made up, with a more clear, full, perfect, and complete enjoyment of God; ere long, O mourning Soul, thy Sun shall rise and never set, thy joy and comfort shall be always1 fresh and green, God shall comfort thee on every side, it shall be night with thee no more, thou shalt be always in the bosom of God.