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Posted: 06/30/2009 
Heaven on Earth - Thomas BrooksReviewed By: Willem J. Pretorius - South Africa This book is so deep and powerful it will require more than one read to make it sink in, yet one read under God's hand will be very fruitful indeed. Some of the most important lessons I learned and am still learning is to keep my eyes more on Christ (the Source of Assurance) than on assurance itself; and a lack of holiness (thought, word and deed)is more often than not at the bottom of a lack of assurance. Assurance is a Devine flower that will not grow in a dark heart, no matter how earnestly sought after - Repent, Trust and Wait on God. I leave you with the following excerpt from 'Meet the Puritans, by Dr. Joel Beeke and Randall J. Pederson "Chapter 1 asserts that believers may attain assurance, and chapter 2 addresses why some believers lack assurance while others enjoy it in a particularly large measure. Chapter 3 grapples with impediments that hinder assurance and how those can be removed. Chapter 4 offers motives to encourage believers not to stop short of obtaining well-grounded assurance. Brooks’s ten advantages to assurance ought to motivate any believer—it offers heaven on earth, sweetens life’s changes, keeps the heart from desiring the world, assists communion with God, preserves from backsliding, produces holy boldness, prepares a man for death, makes mercies taste like mercies, gives vigor in Christian service, and leads to the soul’s enjoyment of Christ. Chapter 5, the heart of the book, sets forth “ways and means of gaining a well-grounded assurance.” Brooks’s section on the “things that accompany salvation”—knowledge, faith, repentance, obedience, love, prayer, perseverance, and hope—offers more than a hundred pages of savory divinity. In itself it serves as a practical handbook on the marks of grace. Chapter 6 exposes counterfeit assurance by describing the marks of well-grounded assurance and characteristics of the Holy Spirit’s internal witness. The closing chapter shows how to strengthen assurance and regain lost assurance."  Back to Top
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