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savour in this Plant of renown, as has cast a perfume through all the Paradise above, and the church militant below, which is called, ‘God’s vineyard,” Isa. v. O sirs! do ye find any thing of the scent of this Plant?——I can tell you, if ever you have been favoured with a smell of it, you Have been made to cry out, “Because of the savour of thy good Ointments, thy Name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. “The believer find a scent about him, he draws a savour from him. What is the design of his ministers, but to cast abroad his scent, And it is by this we win souls. They that cast out, and drop the Plant of renown out of their sermons, no wonder their sermons stink; and they shall stick through eternity, that throw Christ out of their sermons. The great business of ministers is to cast forth the scent of Christ to people. I shall read you to this purpose, it is 1 Cor. ii 14,—16. “Now, thanks be unto God, who always causeth us to triumph in Christ. And maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in everyplace. For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish, To the one, we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other, the savour of life unto life, and who is sufficient for these things. “Who is able to tell the sweet savour that is in him. But,
7. This blessed Plant is renowned for his shadow. Song ii. 3. “I sat down under his
