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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.
They are called his last words, not simply, and absolutely, as though he breathed them forth with his last breath; (for he spake many things afterwards) but either they are the last he spake as a Prophet, by divine inspiration, or because he had them often in his mouth, to his last and dying day. They were his Epicedium, his sweet Swan like Song, in which his Soul found singular Refreshment, and strong Support, amidst the manifold A•••ictions of his Life, and against the Fears of his approaching Death.
The whole Chapter is designed for a Coronis or honourable Close of the Life of David, and gives us an account both of the worthy Expressions that dropped from him, and of the renowned ⟨p. 3⟩Worthies that were employed by him: but all the heroic Achievements recorded to the honour of their Memories, in the following part of the Chapter, are trivial and inglorious things, compared with this one divine Sentence recorded in my Text; in which we have two things to consider, viz. 1. The Preface, which is exceeding solemn. 2. The Speech it self, which is exceeding weighty.
The whole Chapter is designed for a Coronis or honourable Close of the Life of David, and gives us an account both of the worthy Expressions that dropt from him, and of the renowned ⟨p. 3⟩Worthies that were employed by him: but all the heroick Atchievements recorded to the honour of their Memories, in the following part of the Chapter, are trivial and inglorious things, compared with this one divine Sentence recorded in my Text; in which we have two things to consider, viz. 1. The Preface, which is exceeding solemn. 2. The Speech it self, which is exceeding weighty.