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 from him; for his words are the words of eternal life. But, in the

6. Place, This blessed Plant Is renowned for his Scent and pleasant Savour. O sirs! there is such a blessed favour in this Plant of Renown, as has cast a perfume through all the Paradise above! He has cast a perfume through the Church militant, which in Isa. v. is called God’s vineyard. O sirs! do ye find any thing of the scent of this Plant? I can tell you, if ever you have been made to ken him, it will be so: "Because of the favour of thy good ointment, thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the Virgins love thee." The believer he finds a scent about him, he draws a favour from him. What is the design of us Ministers, but to call abroad his scent, and it is by this we win souls; and they that cast out and drop the Plant of Renown out of their Sermons, no wonder their Sermons stink; and they shall stink to eternity, that throw Christ out of their Sermons. The great business of Ministers is to cast forth the scent of Christ to the people. I shall read you a word to this purpose, in 2 Cor. ii. 14,—16. "Now, thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ." The apostle triumphs in him, and all other honest Ministers will triumph in him too; and all Christians that know him, triumph in him. "And maketh manifest the favour of