HEAVEN ON EARTH
Thomas Brooks, 1667
A serious discourse concerning a well-grounded assurance.
Assurance has amazing transforming powers.
It changes iron to gold, ignominies to crowns,
and all sufferings to delights!
Brooks Thomas Heaven on Earth
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
FAITH TO A SAVING OF THE SOUL (Ch. I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
THROUGH FAITH WE UNDERSTAND (Ch. II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Section I
ABEL — (Chs. III, IV)
A MORE EXCELLENT SACRIFICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
THE BLOOD OF ABEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
ENOCH — (Chs. V, VI)
TRANSLATED INTO HEAVEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
THE BIBLICAL STRUCTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
NOAH — (Chs. VII, VIII)
THROUGH THE FLOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
BEYOND THE FLOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
ABRAHAM — (Chs. IX, X, XI)
FROM UR TO CANAAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
ON THE MOUNTAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Section II
ABRAHAM — (Ch. XII)
THE OFFERING OF ISAAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
ISAAC — (Ch. XIII)
THE RIGHTS OF PRIMOGENITURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
JACOB — (Ch. XIV)
HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY BLESSINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
JOSEPH — (Ch. XV)
THE RESURRECTION OF ISRAEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
MOSES — (Chs. XVI, XVII)
THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
DESTRUCTION OF GENTILE WORLD POWER . . . . . . . . . 283
RAHAB — (Ch. XVIII)
THE SALVATION OF GENTILES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
GIDEON, BARAK, SAMSON, et al. (Ch. XIX)
A GOOD REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
APPENDIXES —
ADOPTION, REDEMPTION OF THE BODY . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
THE WILFUL SIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
SCRIPTURE INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .