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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

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

oile powred on a fire it is so farre from quenching that it increaseth the flame The reason is first because there is no proportion betwixt the spirit of man and these things it being eternall and heauenly these being temporall and earthly Secondly because nothing can rest but in the owne place whence it hath its beginning and on things sutable to its nature therefore stones metals and all earthly things thrust vp in the aire do not rest till they returne to their originall earth againe the center of their motion Iob. 5.7 and hence it is that a fiery flame is in a continuall restlesse motion shaking and shiuering alwaies tending vpward toward its naturall place euen so Eccl. 12.7 the spirit of man which is from aboue cannot rest but on things aboue The heart which God hath made for himselfe hath no rest but on God himselfe as the Needle of a Mariners compasse cannot be still and stedfast except it point directly toward the Northerne starre O then my soule since in thy vnstable and restlesse motion thou hast wandred too long from thy Lord séeking rest elsewhere and hast found none Psal 116.7 Returne to thy rest my soule the Lord is thy rest hée is the center that must stay thy vnstable and restlesse motion This Doctrine confutes and reproues First all Papists in generall Secondly politike Papists that dwell among vs in particular Thirdly vs all in vniuersall so farre as we are carnall and worldly minded Hereby are conuinced all Papists in generall that rest not on Christ that seeke not their perfection and saluation in him but elsewhere they mixe the bloud of Christ with the bloud of Martyrs his merits with theirs They make many Mediators Sauiours beside him and so forsaking the Fountaine of liuing waters Ier. 2.13 they dig vnto themselues dry Cesternes that can hold no water Fulnesse of saluation is only and wholly in Christ Col. 1.19 wholy in him Col. 2 9.1● for it pleased the father that all fulnes should be in him in him we are compleat Heb. 7.25 and he is able to saue perfectly them that come vnto God by him only in him for there is no saluation in another Act. 4.12 and among men there is giuen no other name vnder Heauen whereby we may be saued He is as Noahs Arke out of the which there was not safety as Iacobs Ladder by the which only we haue accesse to Heauen 1 Cor. ● 13 Was Paul crucified for vs or were we baptized in his name Our Lord was crucified betweene two Theeues not two Apostles as for the Apostles one of them betrayed him another of them denied him the rest withdrew themselues the time of his suffering to shew that his bloud only is the price of our redemption that he alone trod the Vinepresse of Gods wrath Isa 63.3 and that of all the people there was none with him this is the old faith and therefore the only sound Religion Will we looke to Dauid the sweet singer of Israel a man according to Gods owne heart will we follow either his practise or his precept by both he teacheth vs this Religion Concerning his practise he saith to the Lord Psal 23.25 Whom haue I in Heauen but thee and on earth I haue desired none with thee and giuing a Precept he saith Let Israel wait vpon the Lord Psal 130.7 8. for with the Lord is the great redemption and he will redeeme Israel from all his iniquities Let other Nations wait on whom they please let the Egyptians wait vpon their Isis and Osiris let the Moabites and Midianites wait vpon their Baalpeor let the Amonites attend on Moloch the Sidonians on their Ashtaroth the Philistims on Dagon Ezek. 22.3 Ge●●●im ●● 〈◊〉 the Turkes on their Mahomet the other Pagans on a thousand other such dirty gods of their owne inuention and let the Papists as fondly doting on Idols as they wait on as many such gods of their owne creation let all Idolaters I say wait vpon their Idols it becommeth the Israel of God to wait on the God of Israel it becommeth all true Christians to wait on Christ their Lord to rest on him alone He is Iacobs stone on which he rested they that rest on this stone shall finde with Iacob Heauen opened a ready passage to Heauen and the Angels of God attending them to furnish and further them in this way Secondly this Doctrine makes against politike Papists dwelling among vs who make religion to serue their policie take in Christ the last and of all ends to be a mids and meane to their crafty designes as many come to the musters for feare of poynding so these come with vs to the Church to the Word and Sacrament for feare of the Kings Law They professe the Gospell of Christ with vs that they may enioy their state among vs like Iudas that followed Christ for the bagge a better purse of mony will make Iudas betray his Master Iupiter say the heathen Prophets moralizing by fables could not obtaine the loue of Danae till he turned himselfe in a shoure of gold oh but then she kept him in her bosome If Christ were not turned in gold he should not be welcommed by these our symbolizing false brethren if the Gospell were not accompanied with security of estate with profits preferments and other emoluments they would not receiue it they would not professe it This is not to rest on Christ and his truth but on these worldly emoluments for the which they professe Christ and his truth These men as the messens of Mammon follow Christ because their master Mammon is in his company but when Christ and Mammon shall part company like Demas they will leaue Christ and follow Mammon 2 Tim. 4.10 and then the world shall see that not Christ but Mammon was their master Who loue Christ who seeke him who follow him must loue him must seeke him must follow him for himselfe otherwaies they doe not no they cannot rest vpon him Lastly this Doctrine fighteth against the worldly-mindednesse of vs all while as we seeke other things to leane vnto and to rest vpon beside Christ for euen Israel the people of God sometimes beside God can leane to Egypt 2. King 18. ●1 a staffe of reed which breaking faileth them and thrusteth through their hand Whateuer we leane to beside Christ it is as a staffe of reede it helpeth not but hurteth Is it wisdome is it learning is it riches is it friendship Whatsoeuer a man trusteth vnto beside the Lord it shall disappoint him in the end it shall proue not helpfull but hurtfull vnto him as did Hamans honour Goliahs greatnesse Ester 7. 1 Sam. 17. 2 Sam. 17. and Achitophels wisdome We must not loue the world then nor yet the things of this world 1 Cor. 7.31 for the shape of this world passeth away and whatsoeuer is in the world as the