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B00218	The trauellers ioy: or, A sermon on the third verse of the second chapter of Salomons song. By Master Iohn Adamson, minister of the Word of God at Liberton.	Adamson, John, d. 1653.	1623 (1623)	STC 143; ESTC S124444	16,908	48

lust of the flesh 1 Ioh. 2.16 the lust of the eyes and the pride of life are not of the father but of the world and all things worldly are but vanity passing as a smoke as a dreame as a shadow Our Treasure is not here but aboue here be only the shadowes of good things their substance is in Heauen We laugh at the foolishnesse of little Babes when we sée them chase shadowes and glame after them on a Wall with confidence to apprehend them Greater fooles shall we proue if wee chase the things of this world for they are but shadowes indéed The pompe the riches and pleasures of this world they are but shadowes of that glory riches and ioy that is hid with Christ in God Good reason is it then we settle our minds and hearts on him and not on any thing else We must forsake all things to winne him Mat 1● 44 like that wise and thrifty Merchant who finding that precious Treasure in a field sold all that he had and bought it Vnder his shadow The second reason of the soules delight in this Trée is the shadow of it The shadow of a well busked Trée serues for refreshing of a wearied Traueller it serues to couer him from the parching heate of the Sunne and to saue him from a tempest The shadow of Iesus Christ refresheth the wearied soule Ma● 11. ●8 sore trauelled vnder the burthen of sinne tentations and afflictions it couereth him from the fiery heat of Gods consuming wrath it defendeth and holdeth off the tempest of his iudgements Isa 32.18 Vnder his shadow is that Tabernacle of peace Lam. 4.20 that sure Habitation and safe resting place in the which the Lord hath promised his people shall dwell and liue Christ is our peace our sure habitation safe resting place if we dwell elsewhere we can haue no peace no surety no refreshment we cannot liue vnder another shadow another shadow may slay thee it cannot saue thée Pliny in his Naturall History writeth of the Taxus Plin. lib. 16. cap. 1● which we call the Yew trée that in Arcadia the shadow of it is so deadly and poisonable that if a man sléepe or eat vnder it it doth presently poyson and kill him such is the shadow of any thing beside Christ it may well kill vs it cannot kéepe vs it is a Taxus to intoxicate and poyson not a sauing shadow to comfort and refresh A shadow is made of a light and a body where a darke body interuening betwéene and a light obscures the light there is the shadow Col. ● 17 The Sacrifices and Ceremonies of the Law were shadowes of Christ wherein the people did sit hauing the light of the Gospell eclipsed and obscured to them for then the wisdome of God was a mystery and hid Then was the new Testament couered in the old 1 Cor. 2.7 Eph. 3 5. as the old is now discouered in the new Now these shadowes are fled away since the day of saluation is breathed forth in the rising of that Sunne of righteousnesse Wée then that are not vnder the Law must not desire any more to sit vnder these shadowes Luke 1.78 since the day-spring hath visited vs from on high We haue better shadowes to sit vnder the first is the shadow of his flesh and humanity through the which the glorious light of his Diuinity appeared Ioh. 1.14 and was seene as the glory of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth Vnder this shadow we must delight and sit in this shadow we must seeke for rest refreshment and safety It is the shadow of his flesh whereby we are saued no saluation had béene to man except God had become man we should haue had no comfort against sin except in his flesh he had borne our sinnes we could haue had no safety from the wrath of God Psal 19.9 except he in his flesh had borne it But now our flesh may rest in hope Ioh. 1.14 Hos 13.14 because the Word was made flesh now we may laugh at death and destruction because by his death he hath béene the death of Death and hath saued vs from destruction Oh! then let vs still delight to sit vnder this shadow of his flesh and humanity which if it had not interuened betwéene vs and God in his wrath as with a burning fire we all should haue béene consumed Blessed be his holy name for euer and euer for preparing such a shadow to couer vs Psal 32.1 and blessed are they for euer and euer who delight vnder this shadow whereby in all their tribulations they are swéetly refreshed whereby all their iniquities are closely couered and their soules are surely saued from the wrath to come Neither is his flesh only but his Word and Sacraments also are his shadowes vnder the which we must delight to sit 1. Cor. 13.12 for as yet we sée him not face to face we sée him not as he is but in a mirror and in a riddle or obscure spéech for what is to be knowne of God here by Word and Sacraments is nothing in respect of that we shall know hereafter 1 Ioh. 3.2 when wée shall sée him as he is and know him as wee are knowne of him Therefore in this chapter verse 9. hee is said to speake to vs through a wall and to looke to vs thorow windowes and lattesses The Holy of holies was couered with a Vaile which was rent in the suffring of our Lord to shew that the mysteries of the Law were reuealed and discouered in Christ and as the twi-light of the Law was darknesse in respect of the bright meridian Sun-shine of the Gospell so is this of the Gospell in respect of that which is to be reuealed in the Kingdome of glory euen now in this Kingdome of grace the Lord standeth behind our wall he speaketh to vs through a veile he looketh to vs thorow windowes and lattesses we sée him in a mirrour and in a riddle we heare him speake as it were behind a wall in his Word we sée him looke as it were thorow lattessed windowes in the holy Sacraments These are all shadowes of Christ in which we must delight to sit for safe protection and refreshing consolations till that glorious day breath forth his light and then shall these shadowes flye away Ios 5.12 Manna was the peoples food in the Wildernesse and ceased when they came to Canaan so by the Word and Sacraments we must be refreshed here till we come to Heauen our Canaan But there doe cease Word and Sacraments which are but shadowes of things that be there there shall be no vse of the shadow there shall we not sée him in a mirror but as he is there shall we not heare him as behind a wall or veile for all things that make partition betwixt vs and our Lord shall be taken away there shall he speake to vs mouth to mouth there