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The balm of the covenant applied to the bleeding wounds of afflicted saints First…
The balm of the covenant applied to the bleeding wounds of afflicted saints First composed for the relief of a pious and worthy family, mourning over the deaths of their hopeful children; and now made public for the support of all Christians, sorrowing on the same or any other account. To which is added, A sermon preached for the funeral of that excellent and religious gentleman John Upton of Lupton esq; by John Flavell, preacher of the gospel at Dartmouth in Devon.The balm of the covenant applied to the bleeding wounds of afflicted saints First composed for the relief of a pious and worthy family, mourning over the deaths of their hopeful children; and now made publick for the support of all Christians, sorrowing on the same or any other account. To which is added, A sermon preached for the funeral of that excellent and religious gentleman John Upton of Lupton esq; by John Flavell, preacher of the gospel at Dartmouth in Devon.
London: printed for J. Harris, 1688
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As the Covenant sorts and ranks all your troubles into their proper Classes and places of service, so it secures the special gracious presence of God with you, in the deepest plunges of distress that can befall you; which presence is a full relief to all your troubles, or else nothing in the World is or can be so.
As the Covenant sorts and ranks all your troubles into their proper Classes and places of service, so it secures the special gracious presence of God with you, in the deepest plunges of distress that can befal you; which presence is a full relief to all your troubles, or else nothing in the World is or can be so.
The very Heathens thought themselves well secured against all ⟨p. 53⟩evils and dangers, if they had their petty household Gods with them in their Journeys: but the great God of Heaven and Earth hath engaged to be with his People, in all their afflictions and distresses. As a tender Father sits up himself with his sick Child, and will not leave him to the care of a Servant only; so God thinks it not enough to leave his Children to the tutelage and charge of Angels, but will be with them himself, and that in a special and peculiar way: so run the express words of the Covenant,1 I will not turn away from them to do them good, but I will put my fear into their hearts; and they shall not depart from me. Here he undertakes for both parts, himself and them. I will not, and they shall not.
The very Heathens thought themselves well secured against all ⟨p. 53⟩evils and dangers, if they had their petty houshold Gods with them in their Journeys: but the great God of Heaven and Earth hath engaged to be with his People, in all their afflictions and distresses. As a tender Father sits up himself with his sick Child, and will not leave him to the care of a Servant only; so God thinks it not enough to leave his Children to the tutelage and charge of Angels, but will be with them himself, and that in a special and peculiar way: so run the express words of the Covenant,