A39658:95
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.
(1.) That such Afflictions can do the Children of God no hurt. They may affright, but cannot hurt them: We may meet them with fear, but shall part from them with joy: An unsanctified Rod never did any man good, and a sanctified Rod never did any man hurt: He may afflict our Bodies with sickness, deny, or cut off our comfort in Children, impoverish our Estates, let loose persecutors upon us; but in all this he really ⟨p. 44⟩doth us no hurt, as he speaks in I•• 25.6. no more hurt than a skil• Chirurgeon doth in saving his Patients life, by cutting off a mortified gangrened Member: no mo•• hurt than Frosts and Snow do t• Earth in killing the rank Wee• that exhausted the sap and streng•• of it, and preparing and mello• ing it to produce a fruitful crop • Corn. By these he recalls o• minds from vanity, weans o• fond and ensnaring affections fro• the World, discovers and mortifi•• those lusts, which gentler method and essays could not do: and • this for our hurt?
(1.) That such Afflictions can do the Children of God no hurt. They may affright, but cannot hurt them: We may meet them with fear, but shall part from them with joy: An unsanctified Rod never did any man good, and a sanctified Rod never did any man hurt: He may afflict our Bodies with sickness, deny, or cut off our comfort in Children, impoverish our Estates, let loose persecutors •pon us; but in all this he really ⟨p. 44⟩doth us no hurt, as he speaks in I•• 25.6. no more hurt than a skil Chirurgeon doth in saving his Ptients life, by cutting off a morfied gangren'd Member: no mo hurt than Frosts and Snow do t Earth in killing the rank Wee that exhausted the sap and streng of it, and preparing and mello ing it to produce a fruitful crop Corn. By these he recals o minds from vanity, weans o fond and ensnaring affections fro the World, discovers and mortifi those lusts, which gentler method and essays could not do: and this for our hurt?