His Lips ·are M ,LiOies. talce thofe things that are of more cafie er SxR.XVH plication. · · . . Hi:s Lips 4re M LiUies dropping down_e fr~eet : myrrh. Tl:lat is, his doltrine is as fweet as the Lil1ies, and found asthemyrrb,keeping from putrefacti– on, it being the natureof myrrh1as it is found its . ! felfe,fotomakeothcnhings found .In l-ikeman.l m~r the flpeech of Chrifl: makes the foulefound ~ l t' .th2t.embracedur. What was ev.e-r morefweet _ uc. c. to, then the trLth of Chrifl: '! wl:en he fpake h'irri. l felfe,they all hung.upo'1 his .lips (as the phrafe is in the Gofpdl) .as a man hangs upon the lips of: a:nother whom he ddir.es and delights to hearel fpeake,and,t~ey .marvelled at thegracious words t that came otit ofhis lips, P_{al.4, . Gra~ewas in . his liJ?s,all was (weet that came from him, for-it · came 'from the excellency of his Spirit, his words were-dittl in thefe'affe6ti0ns of his heart. In-the learnedlanguage}thefa·me word fignifi~th fpeech and ·reafon, to intimate that fpeech is but the ·cuvrent of reafon from ~he ·heart the feat of resfon ; therefere Chrifis fpeeches were fweet, Mat;J·i.H,H · becaufe his heart w~s fweet, full of all love, grace,mercy,andgoodnetfe;his heart was a trea- . fure,hislipsmuft needsthenbefwect. Bdoved, th~refore let us hence1iake a tryaB of our fdves what our condition is, ·whet·her the wordsthat come from Chrift whep 'he fpeaks in hi~ .Miniftery to us be fweet or.not. · The Word.~to rf0tne 'lind ·ofmen) .is like·tbe Northerne ay.re·:w.hich,. parcheth;and .cutteth : , ~hab
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