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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.
His House was seldom without a godly Minister in it, and loath he was to eat his pleasant Morsel• alone. It was the joy of his hear• to see his house filled on this account: How many Witnesses to the truth of this are here this day Like another Joseph, he provide• food for your souls; he loved, honoured, received, and incourage• the Ministers of the Gospel in thei• deepest sufferings; gave them opportunities of service, when some durst not own them, and othe• violently persecuted them.
His House was seldom without a godly Minister in it, and loath he was to eat his pleasant Morsel• alone. It was the joy of his hear• to see his house fill'd on this account: How many Witnesses to the truth of this are here this day Like another Ioseph, he provide• food for your souls; he loved, honoured, received, and incourage• the Ministers of the Gospel in thei• deepest sufferings; gave them op•portunities of service, when som• durst not own them, and othe• violently persecuted them.
4. When God called him to public Employments in the Commonwealth, he neither purchased nor abused that Trust; but with a true English, rather a Christian zeal and courage, he dedicated himself to the service of God and his Country. Cheerfully quitting all domestic concerns, spent his Estate, time, and pains, to heal the breaches of England. I know not a man whose zeal for the common good, would have carried him nearer to the Example of that noble Roman, who when a Chasm was made by an Earthquake, and the Oracle had declared, that it could never be closed, except something of value was thrown into it, cast in himself to close it.