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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

declared the effectuall working of the excellency of this Tree in the Christian soule it worketh desire and delight The reasons of this soules desire and delight are set downe three in number First she delighteth in this Trée that shee may rest and repose vnder it Secondly that she may be couered with the shadow of it Thirdly that she may eat the fruit of it as being swéet to her taste Concerning the soules delight and desire consider how that first she speakes of the excellency of this trée and then of her desire toward it and her delight in it For it is not possible wee can haue a desire of the Lord or a delight in the Lord except wee first know his excellency and goodnesse It is true concerning the naturall man of naturall things vnknowne of him he hath no desire how much lesse can spirituall things affect him being vnknowne of him The men of this world misregard the Lord and those things that belong to his Kingdome because they know them not Mat. 13.45 46. The Kingdome of Heauen is like a pearle of great price which when a Merchant hath found he selleth all that he hath and buyeth it He finding this pearle quitteth himselfe of all things to gaine it to get it except he finde it and see it hee laboureth not to attaine vnto it he careth for no more but this present life because he knoweth no better Mar. 8.34 If the Gadarens had knowne Christ they would not haue preferred their swine vnto him The Lord Iesus came vnto his owne people Ioh. 1.11 the Iewes but his owne receiued him not Mat. 27.20 21. 1 Cor. 2.7 Why because they knew him not for if they had knowne him they would not haue preferred a robber vnto him if they had knowne him they would not haue crucified that Lord of glory The Lord said to the woman of Samaria Ioh. 4.10 If thou knewest the gift of God thou wouldst haue asked she asked not because she knew not No maruell to see the worldling haue little desire of the Lord haue little delight in him What wonder he fixe his heart on the things of of this world onely séeing he knoweth no better for if he knew better he would do better If these carnall and worldly minded men that were called to the wedding of the Kings Sonne Luk. 14.16 had knowne how great a benefit they were inuited vnto they would not haue refused to come They would not haue preferred their farmes and Oxen that is their earthly commodities they would not haue preferred their wiues that is their fleshly pleasures to that heauenly banquet All tend to this that we striue to get a sight of Christ Phil. 3.8 that we study by all meanes to attaine to the excellency of the knowledge of him that our hearts may be inamoured with him that he may become the Butte of our desires and only obiect of our delights Secondly as desire must begin at knowledge so knowledge must end in desire in vaine we heare of Christ in vaine we know him except our hearing and our knowledge set an edge on our desire to affect him to séeke him When Iesus had showne vnto the Iewes of the Bread of Life which came downe from Heauen to giue life to the world Io● 6.34 their desire as stirred vp openeth their mouth to say Lord giue vs euermore that bread What euer a man knoweth of Christ he knoweth nothing as he ought to know 1 Cor. 8.2 except he loue him as much as he knoweth him if we acknowledge him to excell all other things we must loue him and delight in him wee must desire him and require him aboue all other things Now to the reason of the soules desire and delight First the wearied soule delighteth in this trée that she may sit that is rest remaine and repose her selfe vnder it Christ is to be sought and desired for himselfe that we may rest and remaine in him that we may repose on him And good reason haue we so to do if we consider either what he is or what he hath what the father hath professed of him or what the Sonne hath promised of himselfe What is he hee is Alpha and Omega the first and the last Reu. 1.8 Rom. 11.36 He is the last end of all ends for to him are all things therefore he is to be desired for himselfe and all other things for him What euer we desire beside him we are not to rest vpon it but must vse it as a meane to further vs to this last end this supreme good and wee dishonour him much and disaduantage our selues more if we desire or séeke him for any other thing beside himselfe if we take in that last end of all things to be vsed as a meane and mids to any other thing Secondly we haue good reason to rest on him if we consider what he hath He hath in himselfe all perfection and beauty he hath in himselfe sufficiency both for himselfe and for vs Gen. 17.1 as being El shaddai God all-sufficient Col. 1.19 Col. 2.9 10 Ioh. 1.14 It pleased the Father that all fulnesse should dwell in him in him dwelleth all the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily in him we are compleat and full he is full of grace and truth fulnesse of light fulnesse of life fulnesse of saluation is in him and what good thing is to bée desired which wee shall not finde in him In him are hid all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge Col. 2.3 He is made of the Father to be our wisdome iustification 1. Cor. 1.30 sanctification and redemption are we fooles in him we haue wisdome are wee guilty of sinne and condemnation in him we haue righteousnesse are wee filthy and prophane in him wee haue sanctification are we sold vnder sinne to hell Ephes 1.7 in him we haue redemption euen the remission of our sinnes in his bloud Seeing then he hath all things we stand in need of to frée vs from extreme misery and to bring vs to supreme felicity good reason haue wee to rest and repose on him Thirdly what professed the father of him This is my beloued Son 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 17.5 in whom I am well pleased on whom I haue rested and reposed If the father hath rested on him for fulnesse of satisfaction why should not we repose on him for fulnesse of saluation Lastly what hath he promised of himselfe Mat. 11.29 In me yee shall finde rest to your soules Wée may with that rich man Luk. 12.19 bid our soules rest on our Barnes but try who will hée shall finde no true rest but in Christ Iesus As for other things the more we possesse them the more they possesse vs yea the more they oppresse vs the more obtained the more they inflame the desire as water the more it be drunke by a dropsie man the more it kindleth his thirst and as

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