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

3. Eminency; his Cheeks are a tower of perfumes, held up, made conspicuous, visible, eminent; so it is with the Graces of §. 42, Christ, when held out, and lifted up in the preaching of the Gospel. They are a Tower of Perfumes; a sweet savour to God and man.

3. Eminency; his Cheeks are a tower of perfumes, held up, made conspicuous, visible, eminent; so it is with the Graces of §. 42, Christ, when held out, and lifted up in the preaching of the Gospell. They are a Tower of Perfumes; a sweet savour to God and man.

The next clause of that verse is, His lips are like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. Two perfections in things natural are here alluded unto. First the glory of Colour in the lilies, and the sweetness of savour in the myrrh. The glory, and beauty of the lilies in those Countries was such, as that our Saviour tells us, that Solomon in all his Glory, was not arrayed like one of them Mat. 6. 29. and the Savour of myrrh, such as when the Scripture would set forth any thing to be an excellent savour, it compares it thereunto, Psal. 45. 8. and thereof was the sweet and holy ointment chiefly made Exod. 30. 26. mention is also made ⟨p. 84⟩frequently of it in other places to the same purpose. It is said of Christ that Grace was poured into his lips Psal. 45. 2. whence men wondered, or were amazed, [Greek or Hebrew]; at the words of Grace that proceeded out of his mouth, so that by the lips of Christ, and their dropping sweet smelling myrrh, the word of Christ, its savour, Excellency, and usefulness, is intended. Herein is he Excellent, and glorious indeed, surpassing the Excellencies, of those natural things which yet are most precious in their kind; even in the Glory, beauty, & usefulness of his Word. Hence they that preach his word, to the saving of the souls of men, are said to be a sweet savour to God