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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.
Argument III.
The Covenant doth not only alter the nature and property of the Saints Afflictions, but it also orderly disposes and aptly places them in the frame of Providence, among th• other means and instruments […] our salvation; so that a Counc• of Angels could never place them or the least circumstance belonging to them, more aptly and a• vantageously than it hath done▪ The knowledge of this must need quiet and fully relieve the afflicted soul: and who can doubt it that believes it to be a Covenant ordered in all things, as the Te• speaks? Here all things, yea, th• most minute-circumstances that befall you, are reduced to their proper Class, and place of service; s• exactly ordered, that all the wi• dom of men and Angels know not how to mend or alter any thing to your advantage.
The Covenant doth not only alter the nature and property of the Saints Afflictions, but it also orderl• disposes and aptly places them in the frame of Providence, among th• other means and instruments 〈…〉 our salvation; so that a Counc• of Angels could never place them or the least circumstance belonging to them, more aptly and a• vantageously than it hath done▪ The knowledge of this must need quiet and fully relieve the afflicted soul: and who can doubt it that believes it to be a Covenan ordered in all things, as the Te speaks? Here all things, yea, th most minute-circumstances that befal you, are reduced to their proper Class, and place of service; s exactly ordered, that all the wi dom of men and Angels know not how to mend or alter any thing to your advantage.