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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.
1. Learn from hence the vanity of the Creature, the emptiness and nothingness of the best things here below. How hath God made your best comforts on Earth to shrink up and vanish into nothing? How do our fancies varnish and guild over these empty Bubbles? What great expectations are we apt to raise from them? How apt to fall asleep in the bosoms or laps of earthly Enjoyments? and say with Job, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand. When lo, in a moment the projects and expectations ⟨p. 152⟩of many years are over-turned. Oh what a difference will you find betwixt hope founded in Christ, Comforts drawn out of the Promises, and the flattering Comforts and vain hopes founded in the Creature whose breath is in its Nostrils?
1. Learn from hence the vanity of the Creature, the emptiness and nothingness of the best things here below. How hath God made your best comforts on Earth to shrink up and vanish into nothing? How do our fancies varnish and guild over these empty Bubbles? What great expectations are we apt to raise from them? How apt to fall asleep in the bosoms or laps of earthly Enjoyments? and say with Iob, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand. When loe, in a moment the projects and expectations ⟨p. 152⟩of many years are over-turned. Oh what a difference will you find betwixt hope founded in Christ, Comforts drawn out of the Promises, and the flattering Comforts and vain hopes founded in the Creature whose breath is in its Nostrils?
'Tis time for you and for us all to wean off from this vain World; mortify our Fancies and Affections to it, and place them where they shall not be capable of disappointment.
'Tis time for you and for us all to wean off from this vain World; mortifie our Fancies and Affections to it, and place them where they shall not be capable of disappointment.