A39658:47
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.
Observation II.
A declining Family is a sore stroke from the hand of God, and so to be acknowledged, wherever it falls.
It was a growing sorrow to David, that his House did not grow; and he eyed the hand of ⟨p. 20⟩God in it: He made it not to gro• as he speaks in the Text. He fe• as many Deaths as he had de• Children. It is God that buil• and destroys Families; he enlargeth, and straighteneth them ••gain. A Family may decline tw• ways, viz. either, 1. By the Death: or, 2. By the Degeneracy of i• Off-spring.
It was a growing sorrow to David, that his House did not grow; and he eyed the hand of ⟨p. 20⟩God in it: He made it not to gro• as he speaks in the Text. He fe• as many Deaths as he had de• Children. It is God that buil• and destroys Families; he enla••geth, and straighteneth them ••gain. A Family may decline tw ways, viz. either, 1. By the Death: or, 2. By the Degeneracy of i Off-spring.