A39658:166
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.
Corollary III.
Corolary III.
How sad and deplorably miserable is their condition, who have no title to, •or comfort from the Covenant of God, when a day of affliction and great •istress is upon them!
Unrelieved Miseries are the •ost intolerable Miseries. To be ⟨p. 90⟩over-weighed with troubles o• Earth, and want support and comfort from Heaven, is a dism•• state indeed; yet this is the ca•• of multitudes in the World. If • Believer be in trouble, his God bears his burden for him, yea, he bears up him and his burden too but he that hath no Covenant i••terest in God, must say as it is Jer. 10.19. This is my affliction, an• I alone must bear it.
Unrelieved Miseries are the •ost intolerable Miseries. To be ⟨p. 90⟩over-weighed with troubles o• Earth, and want support and comfort from Heaven, is a dism state indeed; yet this is the ca of multitudes in the World. If Believer be in trouble, his God bears his burden for him, yea, he bears up him and his burden too but he that hath no Covenant iterest in God, must say as it is