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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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By what hath been said, it clearly appears that other believers have obtained assurance in an ordinary way, and therefore believers now ⟨p. 9⟩may attain to a sweet assurance of their everlasting happiness and blessedness. Certainly, God is as loving, and his bowels of compassion are as strong towards1 Believers now, as ever they were to Believers of old; and it makes as much for the honour of God, the lifting up of Christ, the stopping of the mouths of the wicked, and the rejoicing of the hearts of the righteous, for God to give assurance now, as it did for God to give it then.
By what hath been said, it clearly appears that other beleevers have obtained assurance in an ordinary way, and therefore beleevers now ⟨p. 9⟩may attain to a sweet assurance of their everlasting happinesse and blessednesse. Certainly, God is as loving, and his bowels of compassion are as strong towards1 Beleevers now, as ever they were to Beleevers of old; and it makes as much for the honour of God, the lifting up of Christ, the stopping of the mouthes of the wicked, and the rejoycing of the hearts of the righteous, for God to give assurance now, as it did for God to give it then.
- 1Heb. 13. 8. Rev. 1. 8. 11. Plato, a heathen saith, that God is one and the same, and always like himself.
Fourthly, God hath by promise engaged himself to assure his people of their happiness, and blessedness, The