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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

by thy Name thou art mine when thou passest through the waters I will be with thee and through the Rivers they shall not overflow thee when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt neither shall the flame kindle upon thee Esa 43.2 3. Branch 4th Learn hence the Reason why the most potent and subtil Adversaries of true Believers are not able to prevail against them to ruin them Every sound Believer who sits under the shadow of Christ they are built upon that Rock which can neither be mov'd by the blast of the most raging Persecutors Threats and Accusations nor yet pierced by the most poysoned Arrows their Envy and Malice can shoot at the Believer The storms may blow and the Waters of all kind of Afflictions may flow at such a boisterous rate as may cause all Beholders yea the Believer himself to think and conclude that God is become his Enemy and that his utter Overthrow is design'd by God and yet the Believer shall be safe and come off Victor and Conquerour at last A right sound hearted Believer when surrounded with the Billows and Waves of the most amazing Tribulations he may be likened to Noahs Ark tho' he may be hedg'd in with Afflictions as the Ark was with Water both from below and from above at the same time yet shall he be kept from sinking as the Ark was Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Psal 37.37 Of the true Believers it is said He that toucheth you toucheth the Apple of his namely Gods Eye Zach. 2.8 And upon this Rock will I build my Church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it Mat. 16.18 Vse 2d of Exhortation Oh! that all who hear or read this would be perswaded to acquaint themselves with this Appletrees shadow so as to hasten under it before those impending storms which threaten all unregenerate sinners with Curse and eternal Death And those depopulating Judgments of God which threaten to lay Englands Pride and Wickedness in the dust of Contempt break out and sweep all the Contemners of Christ and his Gospel before them For Motives hereto consider with greatest Seriousness these six Motives following Motive the first All who are not found sitting under the shadow of this Appletree they are open to all those amazing and destroying Storms which hang over the heads of God provoking and Christ despising sinners Oh! Sinner Sinner thou who goest to Church and who comest to the Meetings of God's People and sayest thy Prayers making a great shew in the Profession of the Protestant Religion what will come of thee if thou be found sitting under the shadow of thy own Righteousness when the storm comes Take this warning from a despised Dispenser of God's Holy Word who through special Grace can say he would not take the Glory and the Riches of Hypocritical England to tell thee a Lie in this greatest of Concerns Neither thy running to the Church nor thy hastening to thy solemn Fases in the Meetings thy gilded Prayer Book or thy graceless Prayers composed and made by strength of thy natural Parts and utter'd with never so much Zeal and melting Affections will keep thee from the dreadful Storms of God's Judgments when they come nothing short of Christs shadow will secure thee to hide and shelter thee from the overflowing Scourge when it comes Esa 28.18 Motive 2d Consider how blessed and happy the true Believer is above all other let what storm God pleaseth come and come it as soon as God pleases by day or by night when the Believer is either asleep or awake He is secure the shadow of this Appletree overspreads and covers him so as the storms which ruins others can do him no harm He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty Psal 91.1 And as the true Believer hath a shadow to protect him from the most violent storms which can possibly come on a sinful Nation so he hath an Anchor hold in Heaven which will keep him steady and faithful to Christ and his Gospel when temporary notional Professors who are strangers to Regeneration Work fall away from their Profession like Leaves in Autumn or like untimely Fruit which come to no Perfection These will prove themselves to be of their number who built their House on the Sand which House may stand for a while and promise very fair in the time of outward Peace and Tranquillity while they may enjoy their religious Liberty by Human Law and whilst their Profession and their outward secular Interest can go hand in hand together No Man can discern between such and real Converts It is in this case as when two Men walk or travel together having a Dog following them no Man who knows neither the Men nor yet the Dog can tell whether of the two Men is Master of the Dog But when these two Men come to part then the Dogs Master is presently known from the other the Dog will most certainly follow his own Master When Religion and worldly Advantage Credit Honour and Freedom from the Cross come to turn the back on each other then the Temporary Professor who company'd with Christ in the visible Communion of his Saints all the time of outward Peace will openly discover which of the two he serv'd all the time of his hypocritical Profession Christ in Religion or the World If ever the Penal Laws come in Fashion again in England or the Dragooning Allamode of France find Entrance into these Kingdoms then will it appear what kind of insides Englands Professors have Read with a holy Trembling the Scriptures following Mat. 7.26 27. Mat. 13.21 Jo. 6.26 1 Tim. 5.6 * The Violence of the storm which comes by Temptation may for a time stagger a real Believer but it can never overset him so as he should suffer shipwrack of his Soul or of that Noble Grace of Faith whereby he keeps hold of that Rock of Ages whereon he is built Mat. 7.25 Mat. 16.18 1 Cor. 10.13 2 Pet. 2.9 Motive 3d. Consider how ineffectual all other Shadows and Covering will prove to poor Christless Mortal● in the time of Storm and Tempest If Safety and Preservation from Eternal Ruin be to be had under the shadow of Christ's Mediatorial Righteousness alone then it will necessarily follow that all Papists Arminians Socinians Quakers and Freewillers are i● a most desperate and damnable Condition while they continue at a distrance from the Covering of Christ's Righteousness And not only those Hereticks now mention'd but also those foolish Virgins as above hinted who remain unconverted in the outward visible Communion of the Churches of Christ The Apostatical Church of Rome that Mother of all spiritual Harlots Rev. 17.5 tells the World that out of her Communion there is no Salvation to be expected The Spirit of God on the contrary assures us that all those who forsake her not shall be