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

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The greatest thing that we can desire (next the glory of God) is our own Salvation; and the sweetest thing we can desire, is the Assurance of our Salvation. In this life we cannot get higher, then to be assured of that, which in the next life is to be enjoyed. All Saints shall enjoy a Heaven when they leave this Earth: Some Saints enjoy a Heaven while they are here on Earth. That Saints might enjoy Two Heavens, is the project of this Book; that this project may be published, and (by a Blessing from the Third Heaven) prospered, The Book is Licensed by

THe greatest thing that we can desire (next the glory of God) is our own Salvation; and the sweetest thing we can desire, is the Assurance of our Salvation. In this life we cannot get higher, then to be assured of that, which in the next life is to be enjoyed. All Saints shall enjoy a Heaven when they leave this Earth: Some Saints enjoy a Heaven while they are here on Earth. That Saints might enjoy Two Heavens, is the project of this Book; that this project may be published, and (by a Blessing from the Third Heaven) prospered, The Book is Licensed by

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Joseph Caryl The nineth of the first Mneth, commonly called March. 1653.

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