A39658:60
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.
This weakness in the mind, to support the burdens of Affliction, proceeds from a double cause, viz. 1. From the sinking weight of the Affliction. 2. From the irregular and inordinate workings of the thoughts under it.
1. From the sinking weight that is in Affliction, especially in some sorts of Afflictions: they are heavy pressures, ponderous burdens in themselves. So Job speaks, O that my grief were throughly weighed, 1and my calamity laid in the balances together: for now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea, therefore my words are swallowed up. ⟨p. 26⟩Q. d. If all the Sand that lies upon all the shores in the World, were shovelled up into one heap, and cast into one scale, and my sorrow• into the other, my grief would weigh it all up. How heavy are the hearts of the afflicted! what insupportable sorrows do they feel▪ and groan under, especially when God smites them in the dearest and nearest concerns they have in the World!
1. From the sinking weight that is in Affliction, especially in some sorts of Afflictions: they are heavy pressures, ponderous burdens in themselves. So Iob speaks, O that my grief were throughly weighed, 1and my calamity laid in the balances together: for now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea, therefore my words are swallowed up. ⟨p. 26⟩Q. d. If all the Sand that lies upon all the shores in the World, were shovelled up into one heap, and cast into one scale, and my sorrow• into the other, my grief would weigh it all up. How heavy are the hearts of the afflicted! what insupportable sorrows do they feel and groan under, especially when God smites them in the dearest and nearest concerns they have in the World!