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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.
Query 2. Wherein lies our sin and danger, in exceeding these bounds? I answer,
Sol. When forgetting God's Sovereignty, and the desert of our Iniquities, we arrogantly censure his effecting, or permitting Providences, as if they had no conducency ⟨p. 160⟩to his own glory, or our good. This is both sinful and dangerous: for,
Sol. When forgetting God's Soveraignty, and the desert of our Iniquities, we arrogantly censure his effecting, or permitting Providences, as if they had no conducency ⟨p. 160⟩to his own glory, or our good. This is both sinful and dangerous: for,
1. This is a proud exalting of our own Reason and Understanding, above the infinite Wisdom of God. God hath made our Reason a Judge and Arbiter in matters within its own Sphere and Province; but when it comes to summon God to its Bar, and article against Heaven, it is an insufferable arrogancy, and we do it at our own peril. God will have all men know that he is an unaccountable being, Job 33.13. yea, he will have us to know, that the foolishness of God is wiser than men,