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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.
Proposition I.
That the minds of men, yea, th• best men, are weak and feeble thing under the heavy pressures of affliction and will reel and sink under them except they be strongly relieved an• under-propped.
That the minds of men, yea, th• best men, are weak and feeble thing under the heavy pressures of affliction and will reel and sink under them except they be strongly relieved an• under-propp'd.
A bowing Wall doth not more need a strong Shore or Buttress than the mind of man needs • strong Support and Stay from Heaven, when the weight of Affliction makes it incline and lea• all one way.1 Unless thy Law ha• been my delights: I should then hav• perished in my affliction. Q. d. Wha• shift other men make to stand the shock of their afflictions, I know ⟨p. 25⟩not; but this I know, that if God had not seasonably sent me the relief of a promise, I had certainly gone away in a faint fit of Despondency. O how seasonably did God administer the Cordials of his Word to my drooping sinking Soul!