"What a wonderful life was the Lord Jesus Christ's! Every moment filled up; every act having God as its object, and therefore right, and performed rightly! How precious to God too! No wonder it is preserved before Him. In the golden pot the manna was laid up before Jehovah for a memorial. In that golden psalm (16th) again that life Godward is preserved, and in what marvelous language!-perfect confidence in God; no assumption of equality (though there) as Man; perfect delight in the excellent of the earth, the saints; absolute separation to God; with joy and praise and hope, even though the path of life lay for Him through death!

"Again that life is preserved before God in Leviticus 2 by a covenant of salt for ever. It has been lived despite of Satan, sin and death, and is always a delight to God, so that we may take our handful from the meal, or the cakes, or the first-fruit offering, with all the frankincense and offer it as a sweet savor to God, owning thus we are not it, but enjoy our portion of it as "priests in the holy place."