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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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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. Psal. 71. 20, 21. Thou which hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again; and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the Earth. Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. The day is at hand, O perplexed Soul▪ when thou shalt have smiles without frowns, light without darkness, day without night, wine without water, sweet without bitter, and joy without sorrow.
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 compleat 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. Psal. 71. 20, 21. Thou which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again; and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the Earth. Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. The day is at hand, O perplexed Soul▪ when thou shalt have smiles without frowns, light without darkness, day without night, wine without water, sweet without bitter, and joy without sorrow.