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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. 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, 1 Cor. 1.25. that is, that those very works of God which mans proud Reason adventures to censure, as not so wise a method as their own would be, hath more wisdom in it, than all the deep-laid designs of the greatest Politicians in the World. And it is strange that men should dare to attempt such a wickedness as this, after God hath so severely punished ⟨p. 161⟩it in the fallen Angels.
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 Arbitor 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, Iob 33.13. yea, he will have us to know, that the foolishness of God is wiser than men, 1 Cor. 1.25. that is, that those very works of God which mans proud Reason adventures to censure, as not so wise a method as their own would be, hath more wisdom in it, than all the deep-laid designes of the greatest Polititians in the World. And it is strange that men should dare to attempt such a wickedness as this, after God hath so severely punished ⟨p. 161⟩it in the fallen Angels.