A39658:134
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.
What a rare Model or Platform of Consolatory Arguments ha•• the Apostle laid down, to antido•• our immoderate sorrows for th• death of our dear Relatives which died interested in Christ and th• Covenant! I would not have yo•• ⟨p. 69⟩ignorant, 1brethren, concerning them which are asleep, v. 13. They are not dead, but asleep. Sleep is but […] Parenthesis to the Labours and Travels of this Life; and it is but a partial privation, not of the habit, but acts of Reason, to which upon awaking the soul returns again. Just such a thing is that which in believers is commonly •alled Death. And we do not •se to bewail our Friends, because •hey are fallen asleep: And therefore it no way becomes us to sorrow as those that have no hope, or to look upon them as lost; […] (as he strongly argueth and concludeth, v. 14) their restoration to their Bodies, yea, and to •ur enjoyment again, is fully se••red both to them and us by the Resurrection of Jesus from the •ead. The influence of his Re••rrection is by the Prophet Isaiah compared to the Morning-dew,2 […] show that what virtue there is […] the Morning-dew to cause the anguishing Plants of the Earth to •ive and flourish, that, and much ⟨p. 70⟩more there is in the Resurrection of Christ, to revive and quicke• the dead bodies of these Saints, their Bodies shall be restored by virtue of the warm animating dew or influence of his Resurrection.