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.That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full Assurance of understanding, Col. 2. 2.Qui fidei suae sensum in cord habet, hic scit Christum Jesum in se esse. Ambros. 2 ad Corinth. c. 13. 5.London, Printed by R. I. for John Hancock, and are to be sold at the first Shop in Popes-head Alley in Corn-hill. 1654.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.That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full Assurance of understanding, Col. 2. 2.Qui fidei suae sensum in corde habet, hic scit Christum Iesum in se esse. Ambros. 2 ad Corinth. c. 13. 5.London, Printed by R. I. for John Hancock, and are to be sold at the first Shop in Popes-head Alley in Corn-hill. 1654.Title page of Heaven on Earth, London, 1654Heaven on EarthThomas Brooks, 1654

TO All Saints, that hold to CHRIST the Head AND That walk according to the Laws of the New Creature, Grace, Mercy, and Peace be multiplied from God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ,TO All Saints, that hold to CHRIST the Head AND That walk according to the Lawes of the New Creature, Grace, Mercy, and Peace be multiplyed from God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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TO All Saints, that hold to CHRIST the Head AND That walk according to the Laws of the New Creature, Grace, Mercy, and Peace be multiplied from God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ,

TO All Saints, that hold to CHRIST the Head AND That walk according to the Lawes of the New Creature, Grace, Mercy, and Peace be multiplyed from God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Beloved in our dearest Lord,

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You are those Worthies of whom this world is not worthy;¹ You are the Princes that prevail with God; You are² those excellent ones in whom³ is all Christs delight; You are his glory.⁴ You are his picked, culled, prime Instruments ⟨image 16⟩which he will make use of to carrion⁵ his best and greatest Work against •is worst and greatest Enemies in these latter days; You are a Seal upon Christs heart, you are engraven on the palms of his hand; Your names are⁶ written upon his Breasts, as the names of the Children of Israel were upon Aaron's Breast-plate; You are the Epistle of Christ; You are the anointed of Christ; You have the spirit of discerning; You have the mind of Christ; You have the greatest advantages, and the choicest privileges to enable you to try Truth, to taste Truth, to apply Truth, to defend Truth, to strengthen Truth, to uphold Truth, and to improve Truth; and therefore to whom should I dedicate this following Discourse but to your selves? you have the next place to Christ in my heart; your good, your gain, your glory, your edification, your satisfaction, your confirmation, your consolation, your salvation, hath put me upon casting in my little, little mite, into your treasure.

TO All Saints, that hold to CHRIST the Head AND That walk according to the Laws of the New Creature, Grace, Mercy, and Peace be multiplied from God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ,

TO All Saints, that hold to CHRIST the Head AND That walk according to the Lawes of the New Creature, Grace, Mercy, and Peace be multiplyed from God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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TO All Saints, that hold to CHRIST the Head AND That walk according to the Laws of the New Creature, Grace, Mercy, and Peace be multiplied from God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ,

TO All Saints, that hold to CHRIST the Head AND That walk according to the Lawes of the New Creature, Grace, Mercy, and Peace be multiplyed from God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ,