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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

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

Love and Favour and the benighted deserted Soul When the Waves and Billows from God are commissioned to pass over the poor Soul as if its utter Ruin were design'd by God This is a Storm indeed and the hardest to be wrestled with by the Man who hath been frequently visited with the sweet and Soul-ravishing Embraces of God's Love Either of these four Particulars if it be sharp on a poor Man it may be compar'd to a sharp Storm at Sea occasion'd by either of the four Winds which may set a Man hard to it But when all four come on a Man at once then the Soul is made to understand what a spiritual Hurricane means A Man may loose his All in this World his Substance may be lost his Trade may fail he may come to be as poor as Job and yet being in Esteem for his Goodness and Honesty he may have Trust and Credit among his Neighbours and so may in time recover his Losses If a Man may be clouded as to his Name and Credit among Men and yet having of his own wherewith to subsist in the sight and midst of his Traducers and Reproachers he may make a pretty good shift to weather the point A Man may be extream poor he may be blacken'd with Reproach he may be visited with bodily sickness yet having sensible Communion with God none of these single storms can overset him because the discerned Smiles of God's reconciled Face supplies all the other wants But for the same Person to be stript of all visible Substance and to become a Proverb of reproach among all sorts as well Friends as Enemies to be smitten in his Health and to feel himself under the actual Arrest of Death 〈◊〉 And at the same time for God to seem to write bitter things against him and to carry it towards the Poor Soul as if he were become the Man's Enemy if there be a spiritual Hurricane this side Hell this is one All these bitter Ingredients met together in that sad Hurricane which the Devil was permitted to raise against Job His Substance swept all away and he left as empty handed as when he came into the World He was cast out of the kind and charitable Thoughts of all as well his Friends and nearest Relations as Enemies and Strangers and the God of his Life and Comfort too did set himself in Battel Array against him Oh! what a Hurricane was this Holy Upright hearted Man in it must needs be very sore and sharp when such a Mirrour of Patience le ts fly such Expressions as to Curse the very day of his own Birth Job 3.1 2 3. and to wish himself to be ameer Non-Entity ver 16. with other Expressions full of unbecoming Reflections on that Just Holy and Tremendous God whom he lov'd and fear'd above all things It were worth while if those deluded and graceless Perfectionists who talk so boastingly and ignorantly of a sinless Perfection had power to consider without prejudice how far Job was from that sinless Perfection they teach and affirm is attainable in this Life and for Proof whereof they bring in Job for one Instance Asserting that he was perfect in their Sense let Job's great Impatience in the time of his sore and sinking Trials together with his own Acknowledgment of his Imperfection in Sanctification be weigh'd in the Ballance of an unbyassed and unprejudicate Consideration and then will it convincingly appear how vain and altogether contrary to God's Truth and the Experience of all true Believers that silly Opinion of theirs is If I justifie my self mine own Mouth shall condemn me If I say I am perfect it shall also prove me perverse Job 9.20 If I wash my self with Snow water and make my hands never so clean yet shalt thou plunge me in the Ditch and mine own Cloaths shall abhor me ver 30 31. Holy David was somewhat near to Job in point of Troubles and Afflictions as appears by Psal 42.7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy water-spouts all thy Waves and thy Billows have gone over me And in Psal 142.4 I looked on my right hand and beheld but there was no man that would know me refuge failed me no man cared for my Soul Other Instances might be here brought in to shew what Hurricanes the Saints of God have gone through and yet it hath not been in the power of those Hurricanes to overset or overcome those Servants of the Living God The higher and sharper the storms were the closer Faith did cling to its Object witness Job's fixed Resolution Though he slay me yet will I trust in him Job 13.15 That of David also is to the purpose Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death yet will I fear no evil Psal 23.4 These and all the most Eminent Saints of God Recorded in Scripture whenever they felt any thing of a storm approach them their way they took for self Preservation was to run by Faith and Prayer to the shadow of Christ And as they so every true and uprighted-hearted Believer when he finds himself stript of all outward Accommodations forsaken of all Relations and familiar Friends made an Obloquy of the blackest Reproach compast about with the shadow of Death and the Face of God himself seeming to Frown on the dying Believer yet in the very height of his Extremity his Faith will catch hold of the Appletree and there will hold come Life come Death Oh! the Excellency and Power of a Divine Faith To apply what hath been discover'd concerning Christ's Suitableness and Commodiousness to answer the necessitous Condition of poor sinners from this Metaphor of the Appletree let the first Use be of Information I will Branch it forth into six particular Branches Branch the first Learn hence how sacrilegious and wicked the Doctrin of Popery is which allows and teaches that there are more Mediators between God and Sinners besides Jesus Christ the continual use Papists make of the Virgin Mary and other Saints in their Praying to God is an evident proof hereof They that doubt hereof let them for their own Satisfaction look into the Rosary or Ladies Psalter which is the poor besotted Papists Vade mecum The which whoever reads comparing the same with the Word of God will soon be convinc'd of the Idolatry of the Church of Rome The Spirit and Word of God assures us that there is but one onely Mediator between God and sinful Men and that the Man Christ Jesus is that Mediator For there is one God and one Mediator between God and Men the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2.5 But now hath he obtained a more excellent Ministry by how much also he is the Mediator of a better Covenant which was Established upon better Promises Heb. 8.6 And to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant Heb. 12 24. To convince you of this sacrilegious and damning Doctrin I offer three things to serious Cosideration First The Word of God no where