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A78206	The only refuge of a troubled soul in time of trouble & affliction, or, The sweet and soul-ravishing mystery of the apple-tree; explained and laid open, in two discourses fron Cant. 2. 3, for the comfort and encouragement of the true believer, in the midst of the worst and sorest afflictions which can (possibly) befal him in this world, and the awakening the most secure sinner, who is yet a stranger to the said mystery. ; Publish'd at the earnest and importunate request of several godly persons, who heard the same preached By J. Barry, an unworthy Minist. of the Gospel.	Barry, James.	1700 (1700)	Wing B970; ESTC R223490	61,710	175

No sooner am I set down under that refreshing Shadow and become sensible of my Safety but I presently fall upon solacing my spiritual Senses with beholding and feeding upon its Fruit applying unto my self by Faith the saving Benefits of Christs personal Graces and the Improvement he hath made of the same for me a poor Worm together with the saving Benefits of his Word and Works as above discovered appropriating each Particular unto my self Thus the Improvement which my dear Lord Jesus made of the Anointing poured out upon him by the Father to fit him for the Work of Mediation it is mine The Promises of the Everlasting Covenant of Grace which are suited to every Condition I either am or can be in they are mine That wonderful and amazing Work of his Incarnation or becoming Man it is mine It was to Unite me to God in a nearer and firmer Bond of Union than was between God and me in the first Creation The Work of his unparallell'd and matchless Humiliation in my Nature it is mine It was for me to prevent my Perishing by the Damning Pride of my corrupted Nature and to merit and purchase for me Gospel Humility That Work of his perfectly obey'd the Moral Law in Heart and Life it is mine he obeyed the Law for me as my Surety The Death which he suffer'd and underwent it is mine It was for me that he might unsting Death for me and to give full Satisfaction to Justice for my breaking the Law that my Sins might be Arraign'd and put to death in his Death The Guilt of Sin can now no more condemn or cast me at God's Bar neither can its reigning Power from henceforth detain me as its Captive or Slave that I should obey it in the Lusts thereof The Resurrection of Christ from the Dead it is mine He Rose for my Justification hereby I am fully Assured from under the Hand of the Spirit of God that the Whole of my Debt for which Christ my Surety Actually Dy'd and lay confin'd in the Grave is new fully Discharg'd I am from henceforth no more liable to the Arrest of the Law for Sin for that the Justice of God hath by raising my Surety from the Dead Releas'd and Discharg'd me The Ascension of Christ from Earth to Heaven it is mine be Ascended for me as my Surety and Representative to present before his Father the Success of his Negotiation which he undertook for me when on Earth The compleat and perfect Righteousness he fulfilled for me to answer the Laws Demand and the Universal Conquest and Victory which he by that Rig●●eousness hath Atchiev'd over all his and my Enemies he makes open shew of them in Heaven Besides this he Ascended to enter upon the Possession of that Crown and Mansion in Heaven which he himself purchased for me the which he hath as my Forerunner taken into his own keeping for me until I have accomplisht the Service to which he hath appointed me on Earth The Intercession of Christ in Heaven is mine He sits at the Fathers right Hand to lay my Case in all its various Circumstances open before Gods Throne of Grace pleading in my Behalf the Price which he himself hath paid to Justice for the Procurement of all the Good I stand in need of till I come to the end of my Race And to Encourage my coming to God's Throne of Grace in Prayer with a Humble and Holy Boldness to obtain in the Virtue and Merit of the Price he hath paid and the Intercession he makes in Heaven the Mercy and Deliverance which at any time or in any case I stand in need of The Providence of Christ whereby he governs the World it is mine He Orders and Rules all Creatures or secondary Causes wherein I am concern'd for my Advantage and spiritual Good Devil World Indwelling Sin Poverty Reproach Friends Enemies Adversity Prosperity Health Sickness Life and Death No further will the All and Over-ruling Providence of Christ suffer any of these to move or stir then he will order for my Good and Eternal Advantage Matters being brought to so Excellent an Issue through the powerful Operation of the Holy Ghost my Soul finds it self under a Holy Constraint of crying out Admiringly Here 's Fruit indeed none could ever compare with it of these Celestial Fruits that Feast of Fat things promised in Esa 25.6 is made up and they are by Christ himself intended in those Words For my Flesh is Meat indeed and my Blood is Drink indeed Jo. 6.55 What the Prime and Fatness of Beasts and the most delicious and purest of Wines are to feast and satiate the Body The Flesh and Blood of Christ the Son of God as held forth in the Gospel and by Faith apply'd and fed upon is unspeakably more to the Soul of a true Believer to feed his spiritual Hunger and to quench his spiritual Thirst The Believer while he finds himself thus overcast with the Shadow of the Appletree and his spiritual Senses so unspeakably cheer'd and ravish'd with its Fruit he cries out with Peter on the Mount at the Transfiguration of Christ it is good to be here Mat. 17.3 There 's no Shelter like this of the Apple-tree which secures from all manner of Storms be they inward or outward from Devil from the envious wicked World from Heart Corruption or from God hiding his Face Neither is any Fruit to be compared to its Fruit. A Fruit which never fails a Hungry Soul which feeds on it to feed to fatten to corroborate the Soul against all spiritual Qualms and Faintings of Soul A Fruit which as soon as tasted brings the perplexed melancholly distracted despairing Heart and Mind to Rights again A Fruit which is so far from cloying or surfeiting the Believer that the more and the oftener he makes use of it the more doth he long to be at it again This Fruit produceth in the Soul of a Believer such a Holy Dropsie or unquenchable Thirst as nothing short of the Beatifical Vision in Heaven will perfectly cure Rev. 7.16 Come then Oh! come all ye Poor distressed melancholly despairing Souls who dread the Terrible Sentence of the Law who are frightened by th●● Devils Temptations who are read●● to die away in Despair of the Agonies and Wounds which Sin hath occasion'd in your Consciences ye who are afraid ye shall perish for want And are afraid that God's Wrath will be your Portion for ever hasten under the Shadow of the Spouses Appletree lest the Avenger of Blood overtake thee And for thy Encouragement know it that this Appletree affords Shelter to all comers to all sorts of Sinners The oldest Sinners the vilest and most notorious Sinners who breath this sic● Hell and Destruction all will find Welcome none will be rejected who have a mind to come All that the Father gieth me shall come unto me and he that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out Jo. 6.37 Ho! Every one that Thirsteth come ye to the Waters and he that hath no Money con● and Eat yea come buy Wine and Milk without Money and without Price Esa 55.1 2. And the Spirit and the Bri●● say come and let him that heare●● say come and let him that is athir●● come and whosoever will let him ta●● of the Water of Life freely Rev. 22.1 All other spiritual Physitians and Means of Cure will be found Insignificant and of no value Here 's the Physitian who must cure thee if ever thou be saved Jo. 8.36 Acts 4.12 And I dare boldly to assure thee that the whole World cannot afford thee a safer Physitian with whom to trust thy Sin-sick dying Soul than this dear Lord Jesus under whose Hands never any Soul yet miscarry'd and for cheapness never was the like The Scriptures last quoted make this plain to which I will only add that of the Apostle Paul Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him seeing he ever liveth to make Intercession for them Heb. 7.25 And in a better and more Encouraging Place of Scripture I cannot end FINIS

made actual Partakers of her Plagues when the time of her Visitation comes Rev. 18.4 and shall be made to drink of that Cup of God's Wrath which is prepared for her and all who live and die in her Communion Rev. 16.19 When this comes to fall on that Synagogue it will then appear to the Experience of the Worshippers of that Monstrous Beast whether the sweet and intoxicating Wine of her Fornications which with so much delight she and her Lovers so often drank out of her golden Cup will be able to quench or allay the Anguish and unconceiveable Pain occasion'd in their Souls and Consciences by that Cup of God's Wrath which they will be made to drink off even the very dregs according to that in Psal 75.8 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup and the wine is red as red as the Martyrs Blood slain by the Horns and Teeth of the Romish Beast it is full of mixture and he poureth out of the same but the dregs thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out and drink them * Mark this Reader Shall wring them out and drink them It shall not be Arbitrary in them or left to their choice whether they will drink it or not drink it they must and shall will they nill they for the Cup is in the Hand of Omnipotency not in the Hand of the wicked Motive 4th Consider with Seriousness and Tremble to think how suddenly the Storms now impending and threatning England may break out and fall upon the Nations Storms all know arise and come suddenly and unexpectedly and by so much the more startling and uneasie are they by how much they come unlook'd for and unthought of It was doubtless a great Aggravrtion of the Israelites Misery to look for and expect Peace and Comfort when nothing came but Trouble and Disappointment Jer. 8.15 And it will most certainly be one of the most aggravating Circumstances which will attend the fatal and dismal Destruction which will befal the unbelieving secure Generation which will be on the Earth when the Son of God shall come to Judgment that it will come upon them suddenly and unlookt for For when they shall say Peace and Safety then sudden Destruction shall come upon them as travail upon a woman with Child and they shall not escape 1 Thes 5.3 Oh Reader Think and consider with thy self as I have often done and is it so that I even I must die and is it certain that my dying Hour is uncertain O my Soul what is the matter that I am so unconcern'd to enquire what the true State of my Soul is not knowing but that Death may seize me while I am reading this Book how suddenly may I be Deaths Prisoner And in case I be snatch't away from off the Stage before I have gotten under the shadow of the Apple-tree I am an undone Man my time is ended my Wit and Parts wherein I prided will take wing and the Choice I have made in the bewitching World I lived in will convincingly prove me a Fool. Some Men who want Faith to believe the Word of God cannot believe that there are any such things as Witches in the World But when Death comes if it find them from under the shadow of the Appletree they will find by sad and woful Experience that the World it self whose Vanities and painted Nothings they have courted and preferr'd before the Appletree is the greatest and worst Witch of all As the Partridge sittteh on Eggs and hatcheth them not so he that getteth Riches and not by Right shall leave them in the midst of his days and at his end shall be a fool Jer. 17.11 For what shall it profit a Man if he shall gain the whole World and loose his own Soul Mar. 8.36 Thou fool this Night thy Soul shall be required of thee and then whose shall all those things be which thou hast provided Luke 12.20 Motive 5th Consider how long the Patience and Forbearance of God hath waited upon thee calling on thee and inviting thee to come under the shadow of this Appletree and yet perhaps thou never yet hast had a serious Thought about it Thou art it may be 20 it may be 30 perhaps 40 yea 50. or 60 years old and canst not tell whether thou shalt be damn'd or saved Oh! wonder at God's matchless Forbearance and Patience towards thee that thou art not in Hell among the damned Despisers and wilful Rejecters of the Son of God of whose Recovery and Salvation there is now no Hope or Possibility And besides all this betwixt us and you there is a great gulph fixed so that they that would pass from hence to you cannot neither can they pass to us that would come from thence Luke 16.26 Motive 6th Let the last Motive be the Consideration that for ought Men or Angels can tell God may never give thee another Call in case thou slight this He may forbear thee not a day not an hour nay not a moment longer His Sword is drawn and his Bow ready bent to execute his Vengeance upon thee for the Abuse thou hast put on all his Goodness towards thee B●● especially for the Slight and Contem●● thou continuest to put upon his So●● Jesus Christ Psal 7.11 12 13. Therefore Sinner whoever thou art wh●● readest or hearest the present Ca●● and Caution look narrowly to th●● Hits one denial more to God's Ca●● and Invitation may perhaps do th●● Business and if God strikes thee o●●● le ts fly his Arrow at thee the nex● Word thou utterest or Thought tho● thinkest may be in Hell Torments ●● where thou shalt neither behold nor hea●● tidings of the Appletree to shade o●●● hide thy forsaken Soul from the worst o●●● Storms that ever thou wer 't in Oh ●● pity pity thy immortal never-dying Soul while thou art out of Hell if tho● once get into that bottomless Pit 〈◊〉 Pity will ever be shewn thee by either God Angels or Saints Sermon II. Cant. 2.3 And his Fruit was sweet to my Taste A Third thing in the Appletree which Allegorically sets forth the Excellency of Christ is its Fruitfulness from which I observe the following Doctrin viz That as the Shadow of Christ's Protection secures the real Believer from all kind of Storms wherewith he meets So the Fruit of Christ is Sweet and most delightful to his Taste while he is in a Militant Condition this side Glory By the Fruit of Christ in the Text is to be understood the unspeakable and Soul-saving Benefit which flows to all true Believers from his Mediatorial undertaking and are all briefly couched up in that one passage of the Apostle Who of God is made unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption ● Cor. 1.30 Under this General four things are comprehended of each of which notice shall be taken and due Improvement made for the Comfort and Encouragement of Poor Tempted Believers First By the Fruits of Christ