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Show The Applic.ftioil' ojt/Je troi.io'n of chrift z. 'Tile mlon oft he Souls delight in chis lhadow.'is twofu'ld1 r.1herxotUmcy•fit. 2, 'Iht (:nmtne[sof it. · ·. • 1, TheexcrUencyofit,tecurity is that which the Sou} hunts af• ta, that's the good which it feeks out in a~ evil day: trow the more it hath attained, the more it naturally rejoyceth; as the Soul doth naturally triumph,more according to the nature of the good which ithath aminrd, and the degree ofits union to it. -Hence the Soul having got under the moll excellent Chadow doth natu· .rally lit under it with a great delight. · ' '· ~gain, as I Chewed you the hll day, it is the {,.,Mt/t a11d mojl profitable Jhadow. Ca!ltr~ lif!,ll• urrJbram habt~l {o!.:ttii, non vii.< rt• fellionem { faith Bernard.) The Soul that fits under the Chadow of Chritl ~at.h not a meer protection, but the refre!hlngs of Spiri· rual life. Bu't of this befbre; I come to the Application. 1. Learn f1om hence, tbt differmce of the RigbttoUI man from bil nrithboHr;and tbe txceUency oftht Rightmu man ahotit hif neit.hboU1, The difference of his Ad; the excellency of his Stale• The world is a place fubjected to he.ats, by the wife God who hath ordered all things to his wife and glorious ends. Scmetimes the heat c•meJ frt>m beavm mort im'lltdiattly; Sicknefs and gr.eat Mortalities, trottblu of Spirit and terrorr of Co11foimct. Sometimes they come from Hell , 'Iemptatiollt , &c. Sometimes , from the jarringr of the men of 1h~ 'RIOrld one with another. After a line calm of Peace, healthy times, &c. Thele heal~ of trouble5 break our, and when they break our, men and wcmen that 31( like men tr~velling in the world upon the great tdall to eternity: every one begins to run ro a Chelter, and fetkfor fome Chadow or other. One man gets und-er the fhadow of fome other Country, and there he thinks he fhall be at refl; another chufeth fome gmt perfon, and" makes him his friend;one chufeth one Chadow,another another. The believer he llieth to Chrifi,looks.prefeotly into the . book of (;{)d to fee what promifcs his Word hath for pe9ple in an t·vil rime, and under the fhelter of thofc prom:fes he creeps and i5 at refr : he faith wirh LutbPr, I wiU go and uU my God of it, and with David· he ccmmits himfdf unto God and he i• at reli.He lay liimfiif down •nd Jlcrpr•ill ptact brcaH[e the LoJd luflains him, andil 1101 afraid oftrn tbou[:mdJ of people tbat bav• {<1 tbtmfr/vnagaiHjlhim round about···· liM for the terror b) night, 11or the arrow tbat j/ietb at 11om· day, nor for the p<j/ ilenct that wal/l.tth in dark.,ntji, nor for tile tk/lruOiontfM rNJ/ttb at nton; and -w.by,i Bera~t[t be dweUetb.ivthe frmt conjidered 111 4-Shadow. 45 {terti pfam a/ tin moft high, and abidts rmder the Jhad!rll> of the .ASlmecigohntdyl.y '.{ b;, jhrnmh 1b ·e tl<ct llm cy o.t' I b /" jl I h 1 1" e uvtrt att I 'at t cu fit Hntltr c h'r,Jtr Jl>adoll1. It is not given ro.every one,' tis Bernard' I note; the fpoufe faith Stdi, I have fate ( 1n the tingu!ar number ) ut 4gno{ca1Jmtrogativ~m, to acknowledg her prerogauve. Every one cannot fir under the Chad ow of Chrifl in an evil bout: many·a poor wicked wretch, that hath Jive& unde~ .the · neglc~ .of God, and the contempt ofChrifl· in the days of h1s Tranqullllly· and Profperity, would' gladly get under the Applttree.when the florm. comes; but Chritl will not lie a.fhadow unto hun. You read ol fome, Mat. 1· th•t in the day of Judgmenr, ( th~t great day of heat) !hall fay,Lord open""" u1, h•vt we n•t prayuJ m thy namt, <~nd prophtfjtd in thy nJmt, &c. to ':'~om Chrill !hall fay, deport from me, I k,noll1 you not you worktrtof zmqHrty; many '!'b.! m that dayfi;•U cry unto tht Roc~({ to cover lbtm,and to lht mounta1111 to hrde httm;yea and in tbis life there are many that hoHI upou tbm b.dr, ( as the 'Prophet expreffeth it,) when a day of ev1l comes, then they 'are at thdr Lord have mercy •pan u;, but they ~an find no f?~lter under the wings efthe Almighty; they are tn SaHli ~ondlllon, God anfwereth them not either by Vrim, or by 'Ihu~rmr~n: No~ here's thehappinefs of the Child of God, that at fuch. a ume as th1s is he can fay with David Pfal. 27. v. I. 'Ibt Lord u my lrgbt and my S •lv•tion, whom (houtd I {earl tbt Lird i1 the Jlrengtb of my life; of ,.,hom fbould !be afraid? . ,1 . In tjle fecond place, let me plead with you that fear the ~ord .to V,e 2 . come up to this piece of duty, 10 fit under the Jb~do,.,· of Ckrif! wzth Jiligbl. The Chad ow is proper for, the heal; the "Yorld IS~ \'lace fubjctled to many heats: l ·know not yotu refpetltve condtttogs, the Sun may (for ought I know ) ~eat hot upon fome of your. heacfs ) pollibly the/grounds are w1thered that lhadowed· you. · Thot which 1 would plead with you for is uow to come aud.fit Hit·· ,J., Clmjl! fhadow. It is (in plainer Scriprure-phrafe ) . tq)1ve the Jifro{Fait~ in an t•iltim•: Two things I would fpeak to you for; 1 , To applyyo11r jelvuto thr Appletrtt, in my tcxr . . 2, To fit Hnder rt · with drlight. . ) .J • , I, Apply yo11rje/vn to tbi< Appletret-and to tb•~·""' of rt,)'Jany . feel prefent evils and are crying out what Jh•U.we do? ·othersforefte fr<IW't evih, and .they. ar.e crying .out- what fhall we?o? that which 1 would call you all to i• to come and fit. under thts Apple- ITa |