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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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Thirdly, If you would recover Assurance, then sit not down discouraged, but be up and doing. Remember what a Pearl of price thou hast1 lost, and repent and do thy first works; fall close to the good old work of Believing, Meditating, Examining, Praying, Hearing, Mourning, &c. Begin the world again, and set afresh upon those very ways, by which at first thou didst get Assurance; fall upon family Duties, apply thy self to publick Ordinances, be much in close• Services, stir up every gift that is in thee, stir up every grace that is in thee, stir up all ⟨p. 600⟩the life that is in thee, and never leave blowing till thou hast blowed thy little spark into a flame; never leave turning thy penny, till thou hast turned thy penny into a pound; never leave improving thy mite, till thy mite be turned into a million. God will be found in the use of means, and he will restore our lost mercies in the use of means,