Opened) and applied_Pons CH 23 ties ; your Prayers, Reading, Meditation, they are all.the fruit ofChrilf : The injoyment ofal his Ordinances, .& al your fpiritua I priviledges under the Gofpel, theyare the fruit ofChriec. Now faies the, /cite downunder bighadaw, and hisfruit, it roar Tweet unto my tali: As it is unto aman that does love fruit ; be kPears, Apples, Cherries, or the like : I love this fruit (faies he) but yet notwithflancling, I muff needs go where this fruit grows, and gather it ,off the tree ; and when he hath gone to thetree, and taken the fruit off the tree, (faies he) I fate down under the tree. I had not the fruit, the Apple, or Cherry, brought untomy houfe, but I went unto the tree, and gathered it off the tree; and I fatedown under the thaclow of the tree, and Oh ! how fweet was the fruit unto me! So faies the foul, lo faies theSpoufe of Jefus Chrift : I fate down under the fladoW of jefus'Chriti, and then his fruit was fweet unto my taft. It may be we have had other fhadows : we have fate down under the fhadowof our Eilate, our outward Elate hath been fweet unto our tail. We have fate down(it may be) under the fhadowof frienelfhip, and the fruit of friend. fhipbath been fweet unto ourtall; But behold here a tree, the tree of life, whole fhadow reaches to the end of the earth; Ah, Come, Come and fit down under the fhadow ofJefus Chrift. Ifthere be ever a poor foul, that never yet knewwhat Comfortmeant; Ah, Come, Come under the fhadowofthe Lord Jefus ; The Priefily Office ofJars Chrift, it bath avery fweet thadow ; Come therefore, you that fay you cannot profit under the means, and you that complain of filch, and fuch temptations, and fuch and fuch tins ; and that you were never yet comforted, your confciencesnever pacified : Come now, and fit down un- der the fhadow of the LordJefus Chriti. I tell thee, from the Lord, this fruit ofHis, it fhall be fweet unto thy tali : thou thalt go to Prayer,and Prayer than be fweet unto thy foul, thoughheretofore thou couldftfind no fweetnefs in it; fo the Wordand other Ordinances (hall be fweeter un- to theethan the hony or.the holly corabe. Thus'
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