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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.
1First, Because so much of the Spirit of God as dwelt in them when amongst us, is now recalled and gathered up from this lower World. Those precious Graces which they exercised among us, in Prayer, Conference, and other beneficial Duties, are now gone with them to Heaven.
1First, Because so much of the Spirit of God as dwelt in them when amongst us, is now recall'd and gather'd up from this lower World. Those precious Graces which they exercised among us, in Prayer, Conference, and other beneficial Duties, are now gone with them to Heaven.
- 11 Reason.
The Church had the benefit of them during their abode with men, but now no more, except only what the remembrance of their holy Words and instructive Examples (whereby they still speak to us, though dead) may afford unto us.
There are choice effusions of the Spirit at the time of our Sanctification, of which the Church reapeth the benefit whilst we live; but all these are recalled at our dissolution, and thenceforth we can be no farther useful in this lower World: for as the Soul is the subject in which these precious Graces inhere, so they accompany and go along with the Soul into glory.
There are choice effusions of the Spirit at the time of our Sanctification, of which the Church reapeth the benefit whilst we live; but all these are recall'd at our dissolution, and thenceforth we can be no farther useful in this lower World: for as the Soul is the subject in which these precious Graces inhere, so they accompany and go along with the Soul into glory.