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Show Whttt;the s.hadow-ofChrift if I ,given a latitude to Interpreter~, to abound in feyeral in(epretati- .ons of this text. ·· · , ijj .r. . 1,Some by thefh~dow ofChri~,underfiand thdrg•l dt pm1at~on in oppofition to that of the Gofpei.Summ fob !'ultore ""!br~ (fauh -Himm.) The;Jews were under !hadows, thetr wh~le Servr~e was bllt a {hadow of things to .come. Thofe-c•rnaltyprcal Ord~na¥cel were all asjhad•w1 oj thingJJo comr, and prefigured a Chrtfi that ·was to come: now theJewHh·Church fate under the(hadow ofChrij! .with great delight; Chrifi fait~, Rom. 8. Abra_h•m Jaw my aa_y and rejoyced. It was a pleafant thmg to that anctent pcopl~ of God to meditate of a Chrifi to come, and when they flew theu Lambs . for Sacrifice to think of that Lamb of God prefigured by thofe of. ferings who was to be flain that he might tak/ away tbe jiu1 of tbe .Wor/4.' We now are but under a fhadow : the Apofile faith, that we fee but in t~glafi dilrkJy. But ours is a better !had ow, . · ·a. btheis by the Shadow ofCbrifi under!land his Protd/,.N; •fo AquiHM, umbra Chrrfti prote[Jio eft divinitatif. . The {hadow of ·Chrifi is the protetlion of Chrifi; but Chrifi is to be confidered in a double notion: As God over .aU bltjfed fo~ tvtr. And thus the protetlian of Chrifi is' the proteCI:ion of God, and rhe·fhadoZII 1 .Chri/i is but the !hadow of the. Almighty ; the Cover'! '?f hts wings of which you. read fo often. in Scripture efpedally ~n the hook of P[alm1 2. He may be confidered as G.d manifeft•d zn the flej1, as the Mef]iah of the world. And thus the lhadow of Chrill, is that protellion andfhelter which floweth or arifeth to the S~ul, from a·Chri!l incarnate: Vmhra ejur caro ejm, 11mbra fidn (fartb Beruard. ) .Look as the {hadow protetls the Traveller from the heat and fcorching &earns of the Sun; fo God manifi:fled in the f/tfh, the Lord Jefu• Chri!f, protetls the Soul from the fcorching heat ·of divine wroth: and thus ,we have found out what the Shadow of ·(:hrifi is, it is his Protetlion, that .ProteLlion which floweth fwm him as God, and that !helter and -r~fuge which arifeth from htm as God manije~ed in the flefh. I !hall -not meddle with the firfi conceming· the Church under another difpenfation, .but !ball .chieily diretl my difconrfe to the fccond notion, and by this lba· .dow ofChrifl underfiand his protetlion and that •!helter which he aff'ords to the Soul in this life; which I may difiinguHh• I . Into the ,Protetlion of fpecial Providence,by which God more ·fpecially (for Chrifis fake)covers,& protetls his people from thofe ,llC'!rns which that.place which we .call the world is fubje&ed to. - · 2. The 2. The Protetlioo ofjprcialdiftingui(hing Gr>c;, by which the_ Soul is fecured from thofe heall and ftormr, to whtch the Souls ol men and women are fubje&ed by reafon of fin, both fr01rt God, as a jut\ revenging Judg, and from SatJn as a malicious molefiing adverfary, and from rhe rr-verberattun~ of our o ~n Co ~ - fciences which have a natural power of troublmg us wtth the tr refle&ions. But this is enough to hlVe fpuken to the fir{\ thing, to give you a true notion ot the fhadow of Chult; the lecond thing r have to lpeak to is. . ' 2. Q!• 1Yb•t i< thi< to Jzt rtnder t/Jt Jl.adow ofChr~{l, wttb grcat Jeligbt? . . , r. This notion cf fitting impheth or tmp .)rteth ra ther three things: I.ApplicatioHj and 2. Rej!. 3· Pleafurc. · I. Appli"tion; As the weary Traveller when the Sun beats 11 pon him, applies himldf to the _fhad o ~ of lome tree, (o doth the believing Soul aptly ztfelf to Chrifl. It IS not more natural fu r the weather-beaten Traveller to feek for the !hadow,than fo r the mind full of ftarl and dij!urba11ceJ to feek for lome fecuri~y for itlclf, ~nd make fuitable Applications; as in an hot day or tn a fiormy !line you {hall fee all thofe who have occafions abroad in the Fields,running their feveral ways one to this tree, another to that tree; fo when-evera day of evil comes or is like to come,nature and reafon dirctls every man to look for fome PJovifion for himfclf. The 11- raelites ran to thefh~d•"' of Egypt, If.3o.2. the Moabim flood HHderthr jll&ao'PI of Bcjhbtm, Jer. 44· 45· ~ow whiles tl1c men of the world run one way, another, another way; the bchever runs to God and to Chrifi Jclus, and gets under the Appletree.See holy Dlvid,Pfal. 32. v. 7· Thou art my hiding plact, th011 fh•lt pre{<rvr me from trouble, a11rl e~compafi mr with Song1 ofdelivtrance. Again, Pfal. r I9· 114· Thou art my biding-pl•ct,and my fhield; I !JOpt ilf tby ProT. 18. ••· word, PJal. 20. 7· Some truft in Charm, &nd fomt in Horfu; but w•. wiUremembrr the name ofthr Lard our God. · , Secondly; Sedert ell quit[cere, (faith Bmurd; ·) !itting is the poflure of refi. The believer doth not only in a day of trouble betake himfelf to Chrifi, but he is at re~ when he hath done that, when he hath once got to the Rock that'5 higher than he; he fits, and fings, and laughs at the wa'l'es that are below.The Church in Habbak,~<l;,, Chap. J• v. 17, r8. rt{olsu to rej•yct iH the Lord, and to j•y in the G•d of btr Salvation; and this in a day when the Pgtm ~i4 not bloJJ'ome, •nd thm rt>M 110 fruit ~u the P:rue. 'Tis one thtng G to |