• Francis Covell Sermons

    Seven Troubles And Untouched

    How true every child of God finds the Word of God to be! As soon as our first parents broke the law by eating of the forbidden fruit, God said, "Cursed is the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the clays of thy life;" and there is not one of the children of God now in heaven but what proved this to be true, and we daily prove the same thing. Now, besides being afflicted with temporal troubles, in common with the rest of mankind, the child of God has troubles which are no troubles to the world. God has made sin to be a trouble to those that fear Him, and they never can be at rest until…

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    The Precious Things Of Heaven

    A Sermon Peached By Francis Covell On Sunday Evening, June 2nd, 1872, At Corydon "And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, and for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon.”—Deuteronomy 33:13,14 In the morning we took a little notice of Joseph in some of his afflictions, but we found that "out of them all the Lord delivered him,” and made His promise good concerning him, that, “All things shall work together for good to them that love God, and are the called according to his purpose;" and we noticed that the same afflictions,…

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    The Afflictions Of The Lord’s People

    A Sermon Preached By Francis Covell On Sunday Morning, 2 June 1872, At Croydon "And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, and for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon.”—Deuteronomy 33:13,14 We read (Acts 7:9) that "the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt; but God was with him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions." That, although loved by his God, bought by blood, and having a kingdom prepared and a crown for him to wear, he had to tread through a tribulative path, to prove what God could do…