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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.
2. He relieves himself by the Covenant God had made with him: Yet hath he made with me a Covenant. 1He looks to Christ, there is more in the Covenant than this my House before God, as the Chaldee turns it. This little word yet, wraps up a great and sovereign Cordial in it. Though Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah be gone, and gone with many smarting aggravations too; yet hath he made with me a Covenant, yet I ⟨p. 10⟩have this Sheet-Anchor left to secure me. Gods Covenant with me, in relation to Christ, this under-props and shores up my heart.
2. He relieves himself by the Covenant God had made with him: Yet hath he made with me a Covenant. 1He looks to Christ, there is more in the Covenant than this my House before God, as the Chaldee turns it. This little word yet, wraps up a great and soveraign Cordial in it. Though Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah be gone, and gone with many smarting aggravations too; yet hath he made with me a Covenant, yet I ⟨p. 10⟩have this Sheet-Anchor left to secure me. Gods Covenant with me, in relation to Christ, this under-props and shores up my heart.
- 1Plus est quam haec domus mea ante deum. Jon.
This Covenant was, without controversy, a Gospel-Covenant. It was David's Gospel: for all his salvation and all his desire were in it; which could never be, except Christ had been in it, who is the salvation of all the ends of the Earth, and the desire of all Nations.
This Covenant was, without controversie, a Gospel-Covenant. It was David's Gospel: for all his salvation and all his desire were in it; which could never be, except Christ had been in it, who is the salvation of all the ends of the Earth, and the desire of all Nations.