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Three kings to the great King three offerings bring, Incense for God, Myrrh for man, gold for king. Thy Incense be the hands a white soul rears. For gold give a pure hart, for myrrh drop tears.

Three kings to the great King three offerings bring, Incense for God, Myrrhe for man, gold for king. Thy Incense be the hands a white soule reares. For gold giue a pure hart, for myrrhe drop tears.

The way to make our herbs smell sweetly, is first to purge our garden of weeds. For if sin be fostered in our hearts, all our works will be abominated. God heareth not the prayers of the wicked.¹ If ye will walk contrary to me, saith the Lord, I will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. But being adopted by grace in Christ, and sanctified to holiness, our good works smell sweetly, Phil. 4.² I have received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God. It seems, GOD highly esteems the herb Charity in our gardens. He that serveth the Lord, shall smell as Lebanon: ³he shall grow as the Vine, and his sent shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

The way to make our herbes smell sweetly, is first to purge our garden of weedes. For if sinne be fostered in our hearts, all our workes will bee abominated. God heareth not the prayers of the wicked.¹ If yee will walke contrary to mee, saith the Lord, I will bring your sanctuaries vnto desolation, and I will not smell the sauour of your sweete odours. But being adopted by grace in Christ, and sanctified to holinesse, our good works smell sweetly,