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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The third Question is this, viz. Quest. 3 What means must Souls use to recover Assurance, when it is lost?
I shall give a few short Answers to this Question, and so draw to a close.
I shall give a few short Answers to this Question, and so draw to a cloze.
First, If thou wouldst recover Assurance,1 then thou must labour diligently to find out that sin, that Achan, that hath robbed thee of thy Wedge of Gold, of thy Assurance; surely it is not for infirmities, but enormities, that God hath put out thy candle, and caused thy Sun to set at Noon; surely, thou hast been feeding (I say not tasting) of forbidden fruit, that God hath stripped thee of thy robes, and taken the crown from off thy head, and turned thee out of Paradise. But this is not all.
First, If thou wouldst recover Assurance,1 then thou must labor diligently to finde out that sin, that Achan, that hath robbed thee of thy Wedg of Gold, of thy Assurance; surely it is not for infirmities, but enormities, that God hath put out thy candle, and caused thy Sun to set at Noon; surely, thou hast been feeding (I say not tasting) of forbidden fruit, that God hath stript thee of thy robes, and taken the crown from off thy head, and turned thee out of Paradise. But this is not all.
- 1Austin saith, Humanum est peccare, diabolicum perseverare, & Angelicum resurgere, It is a humane thing to fall into sin, a devilish to persevere therein, and an Angelical or supernatural to rise from it.