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soul_n	angel_n	body_n	spirit_n	8,316	5	5.4481	4	true

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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

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