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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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Fifthly and lastly, If you would recover Assurance, then take heed of refusing Comforts when God brings them to your door, take heed of throwing Gospel-Cordials against ⟨p. 602⟩the wall. This was Asaph's sin, My 1soul refused to be comforted. God comes and offers love to the soul, and the soul refuses it; God comes and spreads the Promises of Consolation before the Soul, and the Soul refuses to look upon them; God comes and makes tenders of the riches of grace, and the soul refuses to accept of them. Sometimes the hand, the man that brings the Cordial is not liked, and therefore men refuse it. Well, remember this, when gold is offered men care not how great or how base he is that offers it; neither should we care by whom the Cordials and consolations of the Gospel are offered to us, whether they are offered by the hand of Isaiah a Prophet of the blood royal, as some think, or by Amos from amongst the Herdsmen of Tekoa. If the Sweet-meats of Heaven are set before thee, it is thy wisdom and thy duty to taste of them, and to feed upon them, without stumbling at the hand that presents them.
Fifthly and lastly, If you would recover Assurance, then take heed of refusing Comforts when God brings them to your door, take heed of throwing Gospel-Cordialls against ⟨p. 602⟩the wall. This was Asaphs sin, My 1soule refused to be comforted. God comes and offers love to the soul, and the soule refuses it; God comes and spreads the Promises of Consolation before the Soul, and the Soul refuses to look upon them; God comes and makes tenders of the riches of grace, and the soule refuses to accept of them. Sometimes the hand, the man that brings the Cordiall is not liked, and therefore men refuse it. Well, remember this, when gold is offered men care not how great or how base he is that offers it; neither should we care by whom the Cordials and consolations of the Gospel are offered to us, whether they are offered by the hand of Isaiah a Prophet of the blood royall, as some think, or by Amos from amongst the Heardsmen of Tekoa. If the Sweet-meats of Heaven are set before thee, it is thy wisdom and thy duty to taste of them, and to feed upon them, without stumbling at the hand that presents them.