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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.
Whatsoever disarms Afflictions of the only sting whereby they wound us, must needs be a complete Relief and Remedy to the afflicted Soul.
Whatsoever disarms Afflictions of the only sting whereby they wound us, must needs be a compleat Relief and Remedy to the afflicted Soul.
But so doth the Covenant of Grace, it disarms Afflictions of the only sting by which they wound us.
Therefore the Covenant of Grace must needs be a complete ⟨p. 36⟩Relief and Remedy to the afflicted Soul.
Therefore the Covenant of Grace must needs be a compleat ⟨p. 36⟩Relief and Remedy to the afflicted Soul.
The sting of all Afflictions, is the guilt of sin; when God smites, Conscience usually smites too: and this is it that causes all that pain and anguish in the afflicted. 'Tis plainly so in the Example of the Widow of Zarephath,