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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.
6. But though these Excellencies were in him, he had his Naevi, blemishes, and imperfections. Elijah was a man of like passions and weaknesses of Spirit. All these I doubt not but God hath covered, and he is now perfectly freed from them all.
6. But though these Excellencies were in him, he had his Naevi, blemishes, and imperfections. Elias was a man of like passions and weaknesses of Spirit. All these I doubt not but God hath covered, and he is now perfectly freed from them all.
There is now no passion left within him to be stirred by temptation, no despondencies and sinkings of Spirit under dismal aspects of Providence. His Graces are perfected, and his Corruptions finally eradicated.
7. To conclude, he was a man of great Afflictions, as well as tender Affections. And as the Lord greatly honoured him in the course of active obedience, so he greatly proved and tried him in a course of passive obedience. He not only gave the Cross in his Coat, but bear it upon his Shoulders: for besides those troubles which were properly sympathetical, he had his Idiopathetical sufferings also, and that both from the hands of men, and from the hand of God. His Piety made and marked him for an Object of Persecution; the Archers shot at him, and sorely grieved him; he and his Family were hunted with a Net; the Lord lay it not to their charge: Et hinc illae lachrymae. The sad effects thereof, I chose rather at this time ⟨p. 148⟩to pass over with a sigh, than in this place to commemorate.
7. To conclude, he was a man of great Afflictions, as well as tender Affections. And as the Lord greatly honoured him in the course of active obedience, so he greatly proved and tryed him in a course of passive obedience. He not only gave the Cross in his Coat, but bear it upon his Shoulders: for besides those troubles which were properly sympathetical, he had his Idiopathetical sufferings also, and that both from the hands of men, and from the hand of God. His Piety made and marked him for an Object of Persecution; the Archers shot at him, and sorely grieved him; he and his Family were hunted with a Net; the Lord lay it not to their charge: Et hinc illae lachrymae. The sad effects thereof, I chose rather at this time