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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

shall he not looke to vs thorow lattessed windowes but with a discouered face and we shall be able to behold the glory of his face vnueiled albeit infinitely more glorious than the face of Moses when hee came downe from the Mount 2 Cor. 3.7 and could not be looked vpon for the brightnesse of his countenance Reu. 21.22 23. In that heauenly Ierusalem shall bee no Temple no Sunne no Moone 1 Cor. 15.28 for the Lambe is the light thereof he shall be all in all immediatly But till that day breath forth his light wee must not only content our selues but also delight our selues in these shadowes for without them he giueth no presence we cannot heare him nor see him but in them except we delight to sit in these shadowes his flesh cannot shadow vs his suffering in the flesh cannot couer vs from the wrath to come And this is the third reason of the soules delight in Christ his swéet and comfortable fruits which swéetnesse the Church testifieth by her experience His fruit was swéet to my taste Not onely doth this Trée in regard of the shadow serue for safegard and refreshment but in respect of the fruit it serueth also to comfort the hungry thirsty soule The Lord promiseth to those that sit vnder this Trée Isa 49.10 that the burning heat of the Sun shall not smite them and that they shall neither hunger nor thirst Israel in the Wildernesse had the cloud to couer them and Manna to eat Christ is both to vs a Cloud to couer and Manna to eat 1 Cor. 10.3 Manna was a liuely Sacrament of Christ and hence it is called a spirituall food amongst other resemblances it had of Christ all manner of good tastes were in it Wisd 16.10 And so in Christ is euery thing desirable and euery thing delightfull he hath the taste of the Wine Ioh. 15.1 the taste of the Oliue Rom. 11.17 the taste of the hony and the hony combe Cant. 4.11 the taste and sent of all delicate spices ibid. 13 14. As here he hath the taste of the apple yea of euery good Apple for so the originall word Tapuach here vsed doth signifie And what I pray you else is meant hereby but that he was anointed with the oyle of gladnes aboue his fellowes Psal 45.7 Ioh. 3.34 and that he receiued not the spirit by measure In a word that the graces and fruits of the spirit in him for vs are of infinite variety and value for by him we haue righteousnesse peace and ioy of the holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 He is made by the father vnto vs our wisdome iustification 1 Cor. 1.30 sanctification and redemption By him wee are made the righteousnesse of God 2 Cor. 5.21 Col. 1.20 By the bloud of his Crosse all things are pacified both in Heauen and Earth ibid. 21 21. By the body of his flesh we are reconciled By his bloud we haue redemption euen the remission of our sinnes Ephes 1.7 Ephe. 2.13 Isa 53.5 2 Tim. 1.10 By his bloud we that were farre off are made neere By his stripes we are made whole By his death death is destroyed and life is brought to light By his death he hath destroyed him who had the power of death that is the Deuill Heb. 2.14 15. Eph. 2.15 Gal. 3. and we are deliuered from the feare and bondage of death By his flesh is taken away the diuision and separation betwixt God and vs. By his curse we are saued from the malediction of the Law By his pouerty wee are made rich 2 Cor. 8. Eph. 2. By his condemnation wee are iustified Eph. 2. By his death we haue life He is our peace He is our aduocate with the father 1 Ioh. 2. 1 Ioh. and a propitiation for our sinnes He taketh away the sinnes of the world He saueth vs his people from our sinnes He hath torne in péeces the obligation that was against vs. Matth. 1. Col. 2. He iustifieth the wicked by faith Rom. 4. Rom. 5.1 By him we are at peace with God By him wee haue boldnesse with confidence to draw néere to God Ephes 3.12 In a word he hath all manner of delectable good tastes all things that are to be desired are to be sound in him Col. 2.10 and in him we are compleat O admirable Trée that so aboundeth with such fruits O happy soule that tasteth and thrise happy soule that inioyeth the swéetnesse of these fruits Swéet so my taste Some things be swéet of their owne nature and in themselues Iudg. 14.18 as is hony according to that of Samsons riddle What is swéeter than Hony Some things are swéet to the taste and mouth which in themselues haue no naturall swéetnesse for to the hungry soule euen bitter things séeme sweet hunger is a sauce that maketh them sauory The fruits of this Trée are most swéet in themselues yet not to euery taste not to the taste that is preoccupied and vitiat with the sent of fleshly delights The humour possessing the taste suffereth not the swéetnesse of these spirituall fruits to enter affect As to those that are in an Ague the bitter humour that infects their taste maketh the swéetest and healthsomest things distastfull and vnsauory 1 Ioh. 2.5 So the heart possessed with the loue of the world cannot be affected toward God things spirituall are abominable and distastfull to it The naturall man giuen ouer to sinfull and fleshly delights perceiueth not the things that are of the spirit of God 1 Cor. 1.14 for they are insipide and vnsauory to him neither can he perceiue them for they are spiritually discerned as none can discerne naturall things but by a naturall soule so spirituall things cannot be discerned but by a supernaturall spirit His fruits are swéet to my taste saith the Bride The Spouse of Christ hath the Spirit of Christ therefore she can discerne things belonging to his Kingdome and as they are most swéet in themselues so are they to her taste Hence we may discerne our selues if we haue the Spirit of Christ we will sauour the things of the Spirit Rom. 8. they will be most swéet and sauory to our taste otherwaies we are sensuall naturall and carnall the supreme faculty in vs is a naturall soule for is not the life of euery liuing thing discerned by the operation thereof it being proportionable to the obiect affected by it the herbes of the field thirst for the sap of the earth and the dew of Heauen whereby they are nourished and increased whereupon we conclude that they haue a naturall life The beasts of the earth are affected toward things sensible and by their appetite are carried toward those things that be pleasant to their sense Whereupon we conclude they haue also a sensible life And men without God affect things not only by nature and sense but also by reason Whereupon wee conclude that they

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