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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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Therefore in the fourth place, wait patiently upon the Lord; David did so, and at length the Lord brought him1 out of a horrible pit, or out of a pit of noise and confusion, and set his feet upon a rock, and established his goings, and put a new Song of praise into his mouth. God never hath, nor never will fail the waiting Soul; though God loves to try the patience of his Children, yet he doth not love to tire out the patience of his Children,2 therefore he will not contend for ever, neither will he be always wroth, lest the spirits of his people should fail. Assurance is a Jewel worth waiting for, it is a Pearl that God gives to none but such as have waited long at mercies ⟨p. 601⟩door; It is a Crown that every one must win (by patient waiting) before he can wear. God doth not think the greatest Mercies too good for waiting Souls, though he knows the least Mercy is too good for impatient Souls. The Breasts of the Promises lie fair and open to waiting Souls, Isa. 30. 18. & 64. 4. & 49. 23. The waiting soul shall have any thing of God, but the froward and impatient soul gets nothing of God but frowns, and blows, and wounds, and broken bones. Sad souls should do well to make that text their bosom companion, Joh. 14. 18. I will not leave 3you comfortless (or Orphans) I will come to you. And that Text, Heb. 10. 36, 37. For ye have need of patience, that after the have done the will of God, ye might receive the Promise: for yet a little, little while (as it is in the Greek) and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Therefore in the fourth place, wait patiently upon the Lord; David did so, and at length the Lord brought him