As the apple tree, whose fruit is very pleasant and wholesome, among the trees of the wood, which are either barren, or bear ungrateful and worthless fruit. I sat down under his shadow; being weary and heavy laden with manifold sins and troubles, inward and outward, I confidently reposed myself under his protection, (which is commonly signified by a shadow, as Isaiah 4:6, Isaiah 25:4, &c.,) and by him was defended from the scorching heat of God's wrath and from the curse of his fiery law, and from the mischief or hurt of all sorts of distresses. His fruit; the benefits which I received by him, the clear, and full, and certain knowledge of God's will, and the way of salvation, adoption, and remission of sins, faith and repentance, and all manner of grace, and assurance of glory. Thus he was to me both a sun and a shield, as is said, Psalms 84:11.

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