A39658:220
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.
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2 Chron. 35.24, 25. His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers: and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. Ver. 25. And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men, and the singing-women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and behold they are written in the Lamentations.
2 Chron. 35.24, 25. His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Ierusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers: and all Iudah and Ierusalem mourned for Iosiah. Ver. 25. And Ieremiah lamented for Iosiah, and all the singing men, and the singing-women spake of Iosiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and behold they are written in the Lamentations.
IN this Context we have the History of the Pious Life, and Tragical Death of good King Josiah. ⟨p. 118⟩The History of his Life gives u• an account of both what he was, and what he did. As to his Personal Endowments and Qualifications, they were singular and eximious, as appears by the fourfold Character by which he is described in the Context: for, First, He espoused the interest of Religion betimes, even in his Youth; cap. 34. ver. 3. For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: And that under the great disadvantage of an ill Education, such a Morning promised a glorious Day. Secondly, He hated all corruptive mixtures in the Worship of God, and was answerably zealous for Reformation; ibid. And in the twelfth year he began to purge Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, &c. as knowing well he and his people might expect no more of Gods blessing on the Ordinances, than there was of his presence in them; and no more of his presence can rationally be