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Heaven on Earth: Or, a Serious Discourse Touching a Well-grounded Assurance of Mens Everlasting Happiness and Blessedness. ... By Thomas Brooks,
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The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.
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February 16, 2025
The way Brooks speaks of the joys of assurance is beautiful. It makes you yearn for it and Brooks is right in pointing out its great worth.
His language is colourful and illustrations engaging. He has a lot of good insights. Though his methodology (continual listings of ten or so points) can be laborious and his ideas are quite repetitive at times.
Unfortunately, Brooks over estimates the rarity of assurance (i.e. chapter 2). It's good to recognise that many do not have it and why that may be. But assurance should be normative. The lack of assurance often comes by either prying into the hidden things of God and searching his hidden decrees, or basing our assurance on our own performance. But when we continue to place our cup upon the fountain of Christs finish work, and the things he has revealed that we rarely find ourselves without thirst.
Another weakness is that Brooks, in chapter 5, contends that Christians cannot be assured by reading the promises of Scripture regarding there salvation. For, he argues, that there is not guarantee that those promises are for them. This basis for our comfort and assurance not in what God has said. The knowledge of our salvation becomes dependent on inward feelings and how we might feel God regards us. This is a man centred. We should not rely on how we feel. God has given us promises, and if we believe and receive God (true faith) then every promise in Scripture IS FOR ME. Reading the Bible's promises, therefore, is the greatest source of assurance for any believer.
At the heart of Brooks theology of assurance is this idea that assurance (or some level of it) does not normally come with true faith. However integral to true faith is assurance that not only for others but also for me Christ died for my sins (LD 7) and the Holy Spirit's most common comfort to the believer is that he assures them of eternal life (LD 1). This is why continental reformed theologians considered some measure of assurance to be of the essence of saving faith (Berkhof, Bavinck, Kuyper, Vos).
I would however affirm with Brooks that assurance should be viewed as a gift and God reveals it in his own time. The elect in due time, though in various degrees and in different measures, attain the assurance of this their eternal and unchangeable election CoD 1.12 Truly when God reveals this assurance it is a priceless treasure. As the Christian plumbs the depths of it receiving more and more confidence in their inheritance, this truly is heaven on Earth.
His language is colourful and illustrations engaging. He has a lot of good insights. Though his methodology (continual listings of ten or so points) can be laborious and his ideas are quite repetitive at times.
Unfortunately, Brooks over estimates the rarity of assurance (i.e. chapter 2). It's good to recognise that many do not have it and why that may be. But assurance should be normative. The lack of assurance often comes by either prying into the hidden things of God and searching his hidden decrees, or basing our assurance on our own performance. But when we continue to place our cup upon the fountain of Christs finish work, and the things he has revealed that we rarely find ourselves without thirst.
Another weakness is that Brooks, in chapter 5, contends that Christians cannot be assured by reading the promises of Scripture regarding there salvation. For, he argues, that there is not guarantee that those promises are for them. This basis for our comfort and assurance not in what God has said. The knowledge of our salvation becomes dependent on inward feelings and how we might feel God regards us. This is a man centred. We should not rely on how we feel. God has given us promises, and if we believe and receive God (true faith) then every promise in Scripture IS FOR ME. Reading the Bible's promises, therefore, is the greatest source of assurance for any believer.
At the heart of Brooks theology of assurance is this idea that assurance (or some level of it) does not normally come with true faith. However integral to true faith is assurance that not only for others but also for me Christ died for my sins (LD 7) and the Holy Spirit's most common comfort to the believer is that he assures them of eternal life (LD 1). This is why continental reformed theologians considered some measure of assurance to be of the essence of saving faith (Berkhof, Bavinck, Kuyper, Vos).
I would however affirm with Brooks that assurance should be viewed as a gift and God reveals it in his own time. The elect in due time, though in various degrees and in different measures, attain the assurance of this their eternal and unchangeable election CoD 1.12 Truly when God reveals this assurance it is a priceless treasure. As the Christian plumbs the depths of it receiving more and more confidence in their inheritance, this truly is heaven on Earth.
December 10, 2023
“To son under assurance is to son in paradise; it is to sin under the flaming sword, it is to sin in the suburbs of heaven, it is to run the hazard of losing that favour ‘that is better than life,’ of that ‘joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,’ and of that ‘peace that passes understanding.’ To sin under assurance is to cast reproach upon Christ, to grieve the Spirit, to wound conscience, to weaken your graces, to blur your evidences, to usher in calamities, to embitter your mercies, and to provoke the tempter to triumph over your Saviour.” (p. 335)
November 9, 2024
I really appreciated how careful Thomas Brooks was to speak to Christians who do not currently have assurance of their salvation. I think this book does a great job of not making assurance seem like something that Christians could have if they worked hard enough - and, at the same time, really challenging the belief that assurance is something that is completely passive. It was really helpful!
September 12, 2023
Thomas Brooks is becoming my favorite Puritan (watch out Richard Baxter).
This book was such an encouragement to me, especially as one who has often struggled with assurance. Brooks' purpose for writing: "That these weak souls may be strengthened, that these unstable souls may be established, that these disconsolate souls may be comforted, I have presented this tract to the world."
Although, I'd argue there was almost a book within a book since Chapter 5 "Ways and Means of Gaining a Well-Grounded Assurance" was literally 157 pages long and almost veered off the "assurance" theme and focused more on "The Things that Accompany Salvation." While this confused me at first, I later came to suppose that this was Brooks' attempt to paint the picture of the Christian life (what right looks like) and thereby offer up the best litmus test whereby we may be most assured or challenged as to our own spiritual condition. And lest the reader become utterly discouraged after reading 157 pages of what a Christian should look like, he concludes this chapter by graciously saying that if "thou dost not find every one of those things in thee that accompany salvation ... thou but a few of those things that accompanies salvations, that comprehends salvation, that borders upon salvation, thy estate is safe, and happiness will by thy portion at last."
Yet, this detour ultimately keeps me from rating it 5/5 since the 365 pages (with this 157 page excursion) was quite long and that taking away Chapter 5 would have yielded a healthy 208 page encouraging book that would not have a higher likelihood of scaring potential readers away. Hence it receives 4/5 overall amongst fellow Puritan Paperbacks.
Below are my favorite quotes from each Chapter:
Intro "Epistle to the Saints":
- "Most Christians live between fears and hopes, and hang, as it were, between heaven and hell; sometimes they hope that their state is good, at other times they fear that their state is bad."
- "Assurance is a believer's ark, where he sits, Noah-like, quiet and still in the midst of all distractions and destructions, commotions and confusions."
- "Books may preach when the author cannot, when the author may not, when the author dares not, yea, and which is more, when the author is not."
The Preface "Touching the Nature of Assurance":
- "The being in a state of grace will yield a man a heaven hereafter, but the seeing of himself in this state will yield him both a heaven here and a heaven hereafter; it will render him doubly blest, blest in heaven, and blest in his own conscience ... it is heaven on this side of heaven."
Chapter 1 "Proofs that believers may in this life attain a well-grounded assurance of their everlasting happiness and blessedness":
- "Hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory."
- "A good conscience will look through the blackest clouds and see a smiling God."
- Luther: "The whole Scriptures ... doth principally aim at this thing, that we should not doubt, but that we should hope, that we should trust, that we should believe, that God is a merciful, a bountiful, a gracious, and a patient God to his people."
Chapter 2 "Weighty propositions concerning assurance":
- "Assurance is requisite to the well-being of a Christian, but not to the being."
- "God delays the giving in of assurance ... because their souls are so taken up and filled with creature enjoyments as that Christ is put to lodge in an out-house, or else it is because they pursue not after assurance with all their might."
- "God loves to smile most upon his people when the world frowns most."
- "The surest and shortest way to assurance is to wrestle and contend with God for holiness ... when the stream and cream of a man's spirit runs after holiness, it will not long be night with that man."
- "As Noah's ark was lifted up nearer and nearer heaven by the rising of the waters higher and higher? So afflictions do but elevate and raise a saint's affections to heaven and heavenly things."
Chapter 3 "Hindrances and impediments that keep poor souls from assurance":
- "The only ground of God's love is His love."
- "As a circle begins everywhere, but ends nowhere, so do the mercies of God."
- "Oh! There is so much grace and goodness, so much love and favour, so much mercy and glory, sparkling and shining through these scriptures (Num 14:19,20, Exod. 34:6,7, Micah 7:18, 19, Isa. 30:18,19, Psa. 78:34-40; 103:8-13, Jer. 3:1-12, Luke 15:20-24, 1 Tim 1:13-17), as may allay the strongest fears, and scatter the thickest darkness and cheer up the saddest spirits."
- "Bu ah! how few there be in these days that keep a diary of God's mercies and their own infirmities, of spiritual experiences and the inward operations of heavenly graces."
- "Why then O doubting souls, will you make your sense and feeling the judge, not only of your condition, but of the truth itself? What is this but to dethrone God, and to make a god of your sense and feeling?"
- "Ah, how active and lively are men in pursuing after the world! but how lifeless and inactive in the ways of grace and holiness!"
- "Vanity is the very quintessence of the creature, and all that can possibly be extracted out of it."
- "All human consolations are but desolations."
- "You would not for all the world gratify your bosom sins upon a dying day, and will you gratify them on other days, which, for anting you know to the contrary, may prove your dying day?"
Chapter 4 "Motives to provoke Christians to be restless till they have obtains a well-grounded assurance of their eternal happiness and blessedness"
- Assurance is a fire that burns up all those cares that ordinarily fill the head and distract the heart. There is no way to get off the burden of cares but by getting assurance ... fears make men turn, like the chameleon, into all colours, forms, and fashions, yea, they make their lives a hell."
- "The truth is, your whole life is a life of doubting, and so it will be, till you attain a well-grounded assurance."
Chapter 5 "Ways and means of gaining a well-grounded assurance":
- None so humble as they that have nearest communion with God ... that knowledge that puffs thee will sink thee."
- "The faith that is not a working faith is no faith."
- "How shall God wipe away my tears in heaven, if I shed non on earth? And how shall I reap in joy, if I sow not in tear? ... The sweetest joys are from the sourest tears."
- "God measures all men's actions by their end ... the chiefest end, the target, the mark, at which the soul must aim in prayer, is God's glory."
- "Hope in the promise will keep the head from aching, and the heart from breaking; it will keep both head and heart from sinking and drowning. Hope exercised upon the promise brings heaven down to the heart."
- "Do not always side with sin and Satan against thine own precious soul."
Chapter 6 "The differences between a true and a counterfeit assurance"
- "Assurance raises a paradise of delight in the soul."
Chapter 7 "Answers to several special questions about assurance"
- "See to it that your hearts run more out to Christ than to assurance; to the sun than to the beams, to the fountain than to the stream, to the root than to the branch, to the cause then to the effect."
- "The highest heavens and the lowest hearts are the habitations wherein the Holy One delights to dwell."
- "Humility is both a grace , and a vessel to receive grace."
- "This is the believer's blessedness, that his condition is always good, though he doth not always see it to be good."
- "Though God be displeased with your sins, yet he is well-pleased with your tears ... nothing moves God like penitent tears ... the tears of the saints have such a kind of omnipotency in them that God himself cannot withstand them: 2 Kings 20:5."
- "God never hath failed, and never will fail the waiting soul."
- "Holiness differs nothing from happiness, but in name. Holiness is happiness in the bud, and happiness is holiness at the full. Happiness is nothing but the quintessence of holiness."
- "Assurance makes every bitter sweet, and every sweet more sweet."
This book was such an encouragement to me, especially as one who has often struggled with assurance. Brooks' purpose for writing: "That these weak souls may be strengthened, that these unstable souls may be established, that these disconsolate souls may be comforted, I have presented this tract to the world."
Although, I'd argue there was almost a book within a book since Chapter 5 "Ways and Means of Gaining a Well-Grounded Assurance" was literally 157 pages long and almost veered off the "assurance" theme and focused more on "The Things that Accompany Salvation." While this confused me at first, I later came to suppose that this was Brooks' attempt to paint the picture of the Christian life (what right looks like) and thereby offer up the best litmus test whereby we may be most assured or challenged as to our own spiritual condition. And lest the reader become utterly discouraged after reading 157 pages of what a Christian should look like, he concludes this chapter by graciously saying that if "thou dost not find every one of those things in thee that accompany salvation ... thou but a few of those things that accompanies salvations, that comprehends salvation, that borders upon salvation, thy estate is safe, and happiness will by thy portion at last."
Yet, this detour ultimately keeps me from rating it 5/5 since the 365 pages (with this 157 page excursion) was quite long and that taking away Chapter 5 would have yielded a healthy 208 page encouraging book that would not have a higher likelihood of scaring potential readers away. Hence it receives 4/5 overall amongst fellow Puritan Paperbacks.
Below are my favorite quotes from each Chapter:
Intro "Epistle to the Saints":
- "Most Christians live between fears and hopes, and hang, as it were, between heaven and hell; sometimes they hope that their state is good, at other times they fear that their state is bad."
- "Assurance is a believer's ark, where he sits, Noah-like, quiet and still in the midst of all distractions and destructions, commotions and confusions."
- "Books may preach when the author cannot, when the author may not, when the author dares not, yea, and which is more, when the author is not."
The Preface "Touching the Nature of Assurance":
- "The being in a state of grace will yield a man a heaven hereafter, but the seeing of himself in this state will yield him both a heaven here and a heaven hereafter; it will render him doubly blest, blest in heaven, and blest in his own conscience ... it is heaven on this side of heaven."
Chapter 1 "Proofs that believers may in this life attain a well-grounded assurance of their everlasting happiness and blessedness":
- "Hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory."
- "A good conscience will look through the blackest clouds and see a smiling God."
- Luther: "The whole Scriptures ... doth principally aim at this thing, that we should not doubt, but that we should hope, that we should trust, that we should believe, that God is a merciful, a bountiful, a gracious, and a patient God to his people."
Chapter 2 "Weighty propositions concerning assurance":
- "Assurance is requisite to the well-being of a Christian, but not to the being."
- "God delays the giving in of assurance ... because their souls are so taken up and filled with creature enjoyments as that Christ is put to lodge in an out-house, or else it is because they pursue not after assurance with all their might."
- "God loves to smile most upon his people when the world frowns most."
- "The surest and shortest way to assurance is to wrestle and contend with God for holiness ... when the stream and cream of a man's spirit runs after holiness, it will not long be night with that man."
- "As Noah's ark was lifted up nearer and nearer heaven by the rising of the waters higher and higher? So afflictions do but elevate and raise a saint's affections to heaven and heavenly things."
Chapter 3 "Hindrances and impediments that keep poor souls from assurance":
- "The only ground of God's love is His love."
- "As a circle begins everywhere, but ends nowhere, so do the mercies of God."
- "Oh! There is so much grace and goodness, so much love and favour, so much mercy and glory, sparkling and shining through these scriptures (Num 14:19,20, Exod. 34:6,7, Micah 7:18, 19, Isa. 30:18,19, Psa. 78:34-40; 103:8-13, Jer. 3:1-12, Luke 15:20-24, 1 Tim 1:13-17), as may allay the strongest fears, and scatter the thickest darkness and cheer up the saddest spirits."
- "Bu ah! how few there be in these days that keep a diary of God's mercies and their own infirmities, of spiritual experiences and the inward operations of heavenly graces."
- "Why then O doubting souls, will you make your sense and feeling the judge, not only of your condition, but of the truth itself? What is this but to dethrone God, and to make a god of your sense and feeling?"
- "Ah, how active and lively are men in pursuing after the world! but how lifeless and inactive in the ways of grace and holiness!"
- "Vanity is the very quintessence of the creature, and all that can possibly be extracted out of it."
- "All human consolations are but desolations."
- "You would not for all the world gratify your bosom sins upon a dying day, and will you gratify them on other days, which, for anting you know to the contrary, may prove your dying day?"
Chapter 4 "Motives to provoke Christians to be restless till they have obtains a well-grounded assurance of their eternal happiness and blessedness"
- Assurance is a fire that burns up all those cares that ordinarily fill the head and distract the heart. There is no way to get off the burden of cares but by getting assurance ... fears make men turn, like the chameleon, into all colours, forms, and fashions, yea, they make their lives a hell."
- "The truth is, your whole life is a life of doubting, and so it will be, till you attain a well-grounded assurance."
Chapter 5 "Ways and means of gaining a well-grounded assurance":
- None so humble as they that have nearest communion with God ... that knowledge that puffs thee will sink thee."
- "The faith that is not a working faith is no faith."
- "How shall God wipe away my tears in heaven, if I shed non on earth? And how shall I reap in joy, if I sow not in tear? ... The sweetest joys are from the sourest tears."
- "God measures all men's actions by their end ... the chiefest end, the target, the mark, at which the soul must aim in prayer, is God's glory."
- "Hope in the promise will keep the head from aching, and the heart from breaking; it will keep both head and heart from sinking and drowning. Hope exercised upon the promise brings heaven down to the heart."
- "Do not always side with sin and Satan against thine own precious soul."
Chapter 6 "The differences between a true and a counterfeit assurance"
- "Assurance raises a paradise of delight in the soul."
Chapter 7 "Answers to several special questions about assurance"
- "See to it that your hearts run more out to Christ than to assurance; to the sun than to the beams, to the fountain than to the stream, to the root than to the branch, to the cause then to the effect."
- "The highest heavens and the lowest hearts are the habitations wherein the Holy One delights to dwell."
- "Humility is both a grace , and a vessel to receive grace."
- "This is the believer's blessedness, that his condition is always good, though he doth not always see it to be good."
- "Though God be displeased with your sins, yet he is well-pleased with your tears ... nothing moves God like penitent tears ... the tears of the saints have such a kind of omnipotency in them that God himself cannot withstand them: 2 Kings 20:5."
- "God never hath failed, and never will fail the waiting soul."
- "Holiness differs nothing from happiness, but in name. Holiness is happiness in the bud, and happiness is holiness at the full. Happiness is nothing but the quintessence of holiness."
- "Assurance makes every bitter sweet, and every sweet more sweet."
September 14, 2023
#2 of 60+ in the Puritan Paperbacks series printed by Banner of Truth.
Heaven on Earth is Thomas Brooks at his best as the pastoral care of these literary, theological giants once again overwhelms the dated language. In fact, in this instance, the archaic language actually helps because it forces the reader to slow his progress and really digest the care for your soul that is being poured across the pages and time of centuries past.
The only downside to this book (and the reason it gets 4/5 stars), and it isn't really a downside, is chapter 5. This chapter is over 150 pages out of a total of 365 and deals more with how to test the genuineness of your faith than it does with assurance proper. That being said, chapter 5 was also pure gold. This should have been a stand-alone book which would have given an amazing, scripture backed, means of testing your faith. I would have liked to see either that or have the book start with this. After all, if your faith is not real, you shouldn't have assurance. If Brooks had started with the test and then moved on to the assurance you should have considering the reality of your faith as judged by scripture, the flow would have made more sense. In the end, this book will certainly be one I pass along to those struggling with assurance and also one I point to when confronting the common complaint against puritan writers that they are not pastoral. Once again, that serves as proof that said person hasn't actually read puritan writing or cannot comprehend what they've read. Do you struggle with assurance? If so, read this book.
Favorite quotes:
"Why, then, O doubting souls, will you make your sense and feeling the judge, not only of your condition, but of the truth itself?"
"Well, doubting souls, the counsel that I shall give you is this, be much in believing, and make only the Scripture the judge of your condition; maintain the judgment of the word against the judgment of sense and feeling."
"If you would have your assurance strengthened and maintained, then keep close to soul-strengthening ways, be serious and sincere, be diligent and constant in the use of those means and ways wherein you first gained assurance, as prayer, reading and hearing the word, breaking of bread, and the communion of saints." (If only we would do these few things, lack of assurance would likely be a rare event in the life of the believer)
Heaven on Earth is Thomas Brooks at his best as the pastoral care of these literary, theological giants once again overwhelms the dated language. In fact, in this instance, the archaic language actually helps because it forces the reader to slow his progress and really digest the care for your soul that is being poured across the pages and time of centuries past.
The only downside to this book (and the reason it gets 4/5 stars), and it isn't really a downside, is chapter 5. This chapter is over 150 pages out of a total of 365 and deals more with how to test the genuineness of your faith than it does with assurance proper. That being said, chapter 5 was also pure gold. This should have been a stand-alone book which would have given an amazing, scripture backed, means of testing your faith. I would have liked to see either that or have the book start with this. After all, if your faith is not real, you shouldn't have assurance. If Brooks had started with the test and then moved on to the assurance you should have considering the reality of your faith as judged by scripture, the flow would have made more sense. In the end, this book will certainly be one I pass along to those struggling with assurance and also one I point to when confronting the common complaint against puritan writers that they are not pastoral. Once again, that serves as proof that said person hasn't actually read puritan writing or cannot comprehend what they've read. Do you struggle with assurance? If so, read this book.
Favorite quotes:
"Why, then, O doubting souls, will you make your sense and feeling the judge, not only of your condition, but of the truth itself?"
"Well, doubting souls, the counsel that I shall give you is this, be much in believing, and make only the Scripture the judge of your condition; maintain the judgment of the word against the judgment of sense and feeling."
"If you would have your assurance strengthened and maintained, then keep close to soul-strengthening ways, be serious and sincere, be diligent and constant in the use of those means and ways wherein you first gained assurance, as prayer, reading and hearing the word, breaking of bread, and the communion of saints." (If only we would do these few things, lack of assurance would likely be a rare event in the life of the believer)
August 2, 2023
Though it took a while to finish (no bus commute to work) it is truly an excellent book! Written in the 1600’s and still timely for today and those who claim Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
Some may say Thomas Brooks repeats himself too much but I see it as evaluating our assurance in Christ from every possible angle. His writings are deeply connected to God’s Word and he did it without the use of a search function. :-)
It’s impossible to select only one sentence to summarize this book so I will select one that I have imbedded in my heart: “. . . be fixed upon Christ, then will assurance bed and board with thee . . .”
Some may say Thomas Brooks repeats himself too much but I see it as evaluating our assurance in Christ from every possible angle. His writings are deeply connected to God’s Word and he did it without the use of a search function. :-)
It’s impossible to select only one sentence to summarize this book so I will select one that I have imbedded in my heart: “. . . be fixed upon Christ, then will assurance bed and board with thee . . .”
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