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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.
2. Consider it Intensively, as to the degree of the sorrow, it was a bitter Lamentation: so pungent, intense, and deep▪ that the Mourning of the Jews for Christ, at the time of their conversion to him, is compared to this Mourning for Josiah. Zach. 12. ver. 11. In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, •s the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. This Hadadrimmon was a little Town in the Valley of Megiddon near the place of this fatal Battle, whose Inhabitants receiving the first tidings of the fall of Josiah, made the Town ring with doleful Outcries and Lamentations.
2. Consider it Intensively, as to the degree of the sorrow, it was a bitter Lamentation: so pungent, intense, and deep▪ that the Mourning of the Iews for Christ, at the time of their conversion to him, is compared to this Mourning for Iosiah. Zach. 12. ver. 11. In that day there shall be a great mourning in Ierusalem, •s the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. This Hadadrimmon was a little Town in the Valley of Megiddon near the place of this fatal Battle, whose Inhabitants receiving the first tydings of the fall of Iosiah, made the Town ring with doleful Outcries and Lamentations.
3. Lastly, Consider it Protensively, in its continuance and duration, it was made an Ordinance in Israel; and accordingly the singing-men and singing-women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day: i. e. Whenever any solemn Funeral or public Calamity was solemnized in Israel, those persons that were skilful in Lamentations, brought in the story of Josiah's death, as the burden of that doleful Song or Funeral-Elegy.