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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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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.
Secondly, If God hath given you Use 2 1Assurance, then do not envy the outward felicity and happiness of the men of the world. Ah lass, what are ⟨p. 604⟩Mountains of Dust, to Mountains of Gold? what are the Stones of the Street, to Rocks of Pearl? what are Crowns of Thorns, to Crowns of Gold? &c. No more are all the treasures, honours, pleasures, and favours of this world, to Assurance. The envious man hath so many tortures, as the envied2 hath praisers; it is the Justice of Envy, to kill and torment the envious. The men of the world, are real objects of pity, but not of envy; who envies the Prisoner at the Bar? who envies the Malefactor that is going to Execution? who envies the dead man that is going to his grave? God hath done more for thee by giving thee Assurance, then if he had given thee all the world, yea, Ten thousand worlds. When the Spanish Ambassador boasted that his Master was King of such a place, and of such a place, and of such a place, &c. The French Ambassador answered, My Master is King of France, K. or France, K. of France, signifying thereby, that France was as much, or more worth, then all the Kingdoms under the power of the King of Spain. Ah Christians, when the men of the world shall cry ⟨p. 605⟩out, O their riches, O their honours, O their preferments, &c. You may well cry out, O Assurance, Assurance, Assurance, there being more real worth and glory in that, then is to be found in all the wealth and glory of the world; therefore do not envy the outward prosperity and felicity of worldly men, &c.
Secondly, If God hath given you Use 2 1Assurance, then do not envy the outward felicity and happiness of the men of the world. Ah lass, what are ⟨p. 604⟩Mountains of Dust, to Mountains of Gold? what are the Stones of the Street, to Rocks of Pearl? what are Crowns of Thorns, to Crowns of Gold? &c. No more are all the treasures, honors, pleasures, and favors of this world, to Assurance. The envious man hath so many tortures, as the envied