j -- 3~ l His Cheekes are d~ beds-offPices. SER.XVI. lto hatch a hell (as it were) il'l our hearts, and to carry aE1ire fhew outwardly ! it could not be. / 1V1eo are not afraid of their thoughts, affections, .• defires,and inward delights ofthe foule;be~aufe / there \s no eye of juftice upon them; but if they · did ·confider th_at the All-feeing God did ob– ferve thefe inward evils, and would call them to ac ount one day for them, then they would be a[well afraid to thinke ill as to doe ill. H 15 che~kes are as .6eds ofJPices, and tU fweet fow~. . I Cheekes are the grace of the face, they are 1 ufed here to denote the prefence of Cluifi, 1 which is fweet as fpices and flowers ; not onely I his pre[ence is glorious inHeaven,when we f1ull fee that goodly perfon of Chrill: that became man for us, thclt transforming light that flnll . make us like h!mfelfe;bm the fpirituall prefence 1 ofChrifi in his ordinances, which we are capa- 1 bleofhere,rhis is asfpicesand flowers. ObieCl. But you will f.1y, c~cekes, foce, andprefence pr~{ent colours to the eyes, and not fmels, as fPices ~tndflowers which are the peculiar 1hjec1 ofanother fence? · Anfw. Oh but ChrHl: is the obje6t of all the fenfes. Beloved, he is not c:mcly beaury to theeye, but ' fweetneiTe to the fmell, and to the tafi:; there~ fore £1ith hatb the nameofall t~e fences, to fee, heare,taH,and fmell:.and dot ha11, becaufe it car– ries us to Chritl, thac is in fiead ofall ro us, btit the poinr is, . O!Jfcrv. 'lihzt the manifejationof(hrift tobu Chur~handr · chtldrrnl
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