A name well known in Scripture; probably derived from Shoshan, a lily, or rose. And some have thought on this account that the church calls herself Shoshan, when in the Canticles she saith, "I am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the vallies." And if so, it is worthy remark that Jesus confining this name to his church, when immediately after he adds, "as the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters." (See Song of Solomon 2:1-2) But whether so or not, certain it is that the church in Christ's esteem is, as Shoshan, their is both the rose and the lily, for grace, loveliness, and fragrancy. Let any one behold the church made white, or the lily in her Redeemer's righteousness, or red as the rose, being washed in his blood; let the fragrancy of the graces of faith and love, when going forth in the lively exercise upon the person of her Lord, be considered; let the fruitfulness of the once wilderness state of the heart, now blossoming like the rose, be marked: and when like the rose the odour is called forth and exhaled by the sun's beams shining upon her, and let every one then say, what can be more beautifully descriptive of the church than such emblems.