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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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First, You that have Assurance, be Use 1 thankful for it; it is a Jewel more worth then Heaven, therefore be thankful. Assurance is a mercy nobly descended, it is from above. Man is1 not born with it in his heart, as he is with a tongue in his mouth. Assurance is a peculiar mercy, it is a flower of Paradise that God sticks only in his children's bosoms. Assurance is a mercy, sweetening mercy, it is a mercy that puts the Garland upon all our mercies. Assurance makes every bitter sweet, and every sweet more sweet; he enjoys little, that wants it, he wants nothing that enjoys it; therefore be you thankful that have, and do find the sweetness of it. If Philip rejoiced that Alexander was born in the days of Aristotle, How much more cause have you to rejoice, upon whose heads the Lord hath put the Crown of Assurance, a crown of more worth and weight, then all Princes crowns in the world?
First, You that have Assurance, be Use 1 thankful for it; it is a Jewel more worth then Heaven, therefore be thankful. Assurance is a mercy nobly descended, it is from above. Man is1 not born with it in his heart, as he is with a tongue in his mouth. Assurance is a peculiar mercy, it is a flower of Paradise that God sticks onely in his childrens bosoms. Assurance is a mercy, sweetning mercy, it is a mercy that puts the Garland upon all our mercies. Assurance makes every bitter sweet, and every sweet more sweet; he enjoyes little, that wants it, he wants nothing that enjoyes it; therefore be you thankful that have, and do finde the sweetness of it. If Philip rejoyced that Alexander was born in the dayes of Aristotle, How much more cause have you to rejoyce, upon whose heads the Lord hath put the Crown of Assurance, a crown of more worth and weight, then all Princes crowns in the world?
- 1Jam. 1. 17. Plato was very thankful, that God made him a man, and not a woman, a Grecian, and not a Barbarian, a Scholar to Socrates, and not to any other Philosopher. O what cause then have you to be thankful for Assurance?