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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.
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 ⟨p. 148⟩to pass over with a sigh, than in this place to commemorate.
And as the hand of man was upon him, so the hand of his God also. First, lopping off all the pleasant Branches that sprang from him, and that one after another; when come to the endearing age, opening and disclosing the Bud: And as the Complement and Issue of all, breaking his constitutional strength with a long languishing Disease, which at last extinguished this bright Lamp, and hath left his Family and Neighbourhood in darkness and sorrow. His poor Heart was the Anvil on which many Hammers of Affliction had been a long time beating; and no wonder it appeared relaxed and tumified, when it was inspected, having endured so many successive strokes of sorrow.