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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.
First, The ground on which the Apostle Paul builds his Assurance, is not any special Revelation, but such a foundation as is common to all Believers, as clearly appears in that Rom. 8. 32, 33, 34. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered 1him up for us all; how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of ⟨p. 2⟩Gods elect? it is God that justifieth, who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that dyed, yea rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. It is clear from these words, that this blessed Apostle2 had not that glorious Assurance that he speaks of in the two last verses of this Chapter, by immediate Revelation, for he concludes it from such arguments as are general, or common to all the godly; and therefore it roundly follows, that believers may in this life attain unto a Well-grounded Assurance of their everlasting happiness, and blessedness. So Hezekiahs assurance did spring from a principle that is common to all believers, 2 King. 20. 3. Ergo.
FIrst, The ground on which the Apostle Paul builds his Assurance, is not any special Revelation, but such a foundation as is common to all Beleevers, as cleerly appears in that Rom. 8. 32, 33, 34. Hee that spared not his owne Sonne, but delivered 1him up for us all; how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of ⟨p. 2⟩Gods elect? it is God that justifieth, who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that dyed, yea rather that is risen againe, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. It is cleer from these words, that this blessed Apostle