Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

These things are in the Cheeks of Christ: the Chaldee Paraphrast, who applies this whole song to Gods dealings with the people of the Jews; makes these Cheeks of the Churches husband to be the two tables of stone, with the various lines drawn in them, but that Allusion is strained; as are most of the Conjectures of that Scholiast.

These things are in the Cheeks of Christ: the Chaldee Paraphrast, who applys this whole song to Gods dealings with the people of the Jews; maks these Cheeks of the Churches husband to be the two tables of stone, with the various lines drawn in them, but that Allusion is strained; as are most of the Conjectures of that Scholiast.

The Cheeks of a man are the seat of Comeliness, and manlike courage; The Comeliness of Christ, as hath in part been §. 40 declared, is from his fullness of Grace in himself for us. His manly Courage respects the Administration of his Rule, and Government, from his fullness of Authority, as was before declared. This Comeliness and Courage; the Spouse describing Christ as a beautiful, desirable personage, to show that Spiritually he is so, calleth his Cheeks; so to make up his parts, and proportion. And to them doth she ascribe a sweet savour, Order, and Eminency a sweet savour; as God is said to smell a sweet savour from the Grace and Obedience of his servants (Gen 8. 2. the Lord smelled a savour of rest from the Sacrifice of Noah) so do the Saints, smell a sweet savour from his Grace laid up in Christ. Cant. 1. 3. It is that which they rest in, which they delight in, which they are refreshed with. As the smell of aromaticall spices, and flowers, please the natural sense, refresh the spirits and delight the person, so do the Graces of Christ to his Saints; They please their Spiritual sense, they refresh their drooping Spirits, and give delight to their souls. If he be nigh them they ⟨p. 83⟩smell his Raiment, as Isaac the raiment of Jacob; They say it is as the smell of a field that the Lord hath blessed,