Heaven on Earth
Thomas Brooks's 1654 treatise argues that believers can attain a settled, well-grounded assurance of their salvation in this life, rather than living in perpetual doubt. Brooks distinguishes true assurance from false confidence, examines the marks and hindrances of genuine grace, and shows how a believer's certain hope produces deep, practical comfort.
Based on Heaven on Earth: A Treatise on Christian Assurance (1654), by Thomas Brooks
Puritan quotes
Quotes by Thomas Brooks
“A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility, and holy joy.”
“There are five things that God will never sell at a cheap rate: Christ, truth, his honour, heaven, and assurance.”
“Take no truths upon trust, but all upon trial.”
“Precepts may instruct, but examples persuade.”
“Assurance makes most for your comfort, but holiness makes most for God's honor.”
“Grace is glory in the bud, and glory is grace at the full.”
“To have grace, and to be sure that we have grace, is glory upon the throne, it is heaven on this side heaven.”
“Know that it is not the knowing , nor the talking , nor the reading man—but the doing man, that at last will be found the happiest man. "If you know these things, blessed and happy are you if you DO them." (John 13:17)”
“Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.”
“Satan loves to sail with the wind, and to suit men's temptations to their conditions and inclinations.”
