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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

haue a reasonable soule And whereas many Mat. 6.32 howbeit professed Christians are affected and inclined only to things naturall sensuall and such as are founded on reason what can we conclude of them but that they liue a life only naturall as do plants sensuall as do beasts and reasonable as do the heathen and haue no spirituall life at all Seeing their appetite doth not carry them toward the things of God Col. 3.1 it is certaine they liue not the life of God Rom. 8.5 and professe what they will Christ liueth not in them by his Spirit otherwaies their desire would be towards him their delight would bee in him and his fruits would be swéet to their taste Let vs study then to know our owne misery Iesus Christ his excellency then our desire and languor will bee toward him our delight will bee in him The soule that is weary of the burthen of sinne will hunger and thirst after his righteousnesse will earnestly desire to rest and repose vnder his shadow The Spirit that feeleth the piercing Arrowes of Gods wrath for sinne will aboue all things seeke to bee couered with the sauing shadow of his mercy O how sweet will his comfortable fruits be to the hungry and distressed soule that seeth no life no refreshment no consolation but in him and through him Now the Lord of life that Father of mercies and God of all consolation so moue vs so direct vs so affect vs that aboue all things we may seeke him and finde him to his euerlasting glory and our eternall felicity Amen A sweet and heauenly Prayer made for the helpe and direction of the weaker sort of Christians in knowledge and comfortable also for the stronger O Lord God most glorious and mercifull who searchest the hearts and knowest the thoughts of the sonnes of men wee thy vnworthy seruants doe here at this present most humbly present our selues before thee ashamed and grieued for our manifold sins committed against thee Lord if thou shouldst enter into iudgement with vs according to our deseruings wee were not able to abide it if thou O GOD shouldst strictly marke wherein the best of vs all haue erred before thee O Lord who were able to endure it for we are loath some leprous and out of measure sinfull our minds so blinded that we know nothing that may make for our blisse our iudgements so shallow that we cannot conceiue and rightly adiudge of holy and heauenly things our memories so dull and dead that wee can hold no good thought or holy meditation our hearts so hardned that neither thy mercies nor iudgements can bring vs to obedience our wills so peruerted that wee freely desire nothing but euill our affections so corrupted that we lust for and delight in nothing but wickednesse our words so vaine and our workes so vile that wee practise daily nothing but sinfull rebellion against thee Lord therefore for Iesus Christ his sake bee mercifull vnto vs thus miserable sinners wee are weary of these our sinfull conditions and laden with these our damnable abominations Lord be thou our refreshing Perswade our hearts deare God by faith that our sinnes are forgiuen vs our soules reconciled vnto thee and our names written in the booke of life we are instant suters vnto thee for this thy mercy as was Moses vpon the Mount Lord shew vs thy glory and say vnto our amazed soules that thou art our saluation And we most humbly beseech thee to sanctifie vs all with thy holy and heauenly feare let thy Word and Spirit dwell in vs in all wisdome plenteously that thereby our vile affections may be purified our wicked minds renued and our sinfull liues most graciously amended that as formerly we haue giuen our selues to prophanenesse so euer hereafter we may apply our selues to holinesse O that our waies were made so direct that euerlastingly we may keepe they commandements O that wee could doe thy will on earth as thine Angels and glorified soules doe it in Heauen Lord blesse with vs all thy Church and chosen blesse this sinfull nation blesse all our friends and kindred blesse this house and family blesse all afflicted members especially such as are wounded in conscience for their sinnes continue thy blessed Gospell vnto vs and make vs truly thankfull for all thy mercies And this night wee beseech thee redouble thy blessings vpon vs that are humbled in prayer before thee blesse vs in body blesse vs in soule blesse vs in the basket blesse vs in the store blesse vs in whatsoeuer belong vnto vs within doores and without giue vnto our bodies a comfortable rest and sleepe pitch thine Angels about our tents that nothing may destroy them and keepe our soules from sleeping in sinne and the seducings of Satan that wee being blessed of thee in soule and body in this world may haue the surer hope and truer hold of euerlasting saluation from thee at that screeching day of iudgement to come and that for Iesus Christ his sake who we hope at this present intercedeth to thee for vs for a prosperous blessing from thee vpon vs to whom with thee and thy holy spirit three persons but one God we desire to returne all glory honour dominion and thanksgiuing this night and euerlastingly to come both here on earth and hereafter hopefully in Heauen Amen FINIS

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