Preached Augui117. 1662. 7E thee in the midi of thy land, which the Lord thy Godgiveth thee topof refs it. And at thereventh verre, Wherefore I command' hee, Saying, Thoufhalt feparate three Cities or. thee. Now you (hall have this a- gain propounded to you in Joihma, Chap. 20. v.7. And they fantiified Keden) in Galilee in Napthali, and Sichenz in mount Ephraim, andKi- riath-arba (which is Hebron) in the mountain of Judah, Mark the Scripture, that that was called Separation in licit. 9. 2, 7. is here called Sanification ; therefore the word in the Hebrew is, And you fkall fanthfie, or make, holy thefe places ; that is, holy, by the jepara- tied Thal] ofthem unto that employment that I appoInt : Hence a thing is fail to be unholy in Scripture when it is common, is not feparated and let apart to holy employments and fer vices and from every thing that is of a civil concernment. And hence you read in Aas io. 14, in the Not that Peter had, God bids Peter kill andeat. But Peter Paid, fo Lord, for I have °never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. That that is unclean .and unholy, in a way, oflegal unholiners, is laid to be common; not let apart, Heb. it% 29, you (hall there read this notion clearly difcavered co yori in the New Teflarnent, Ofhow muchforer puniihment, fuppofeye, (hall he be thought worthy, who bath trodden under-foot the Son of God, andbath counted thebloodof the Covenant wherewith he was fanUifiodan unholy thing ? Air unholy thing is a common thing. So that nowwhat is fan- alfiCation in the former part of the verie, is called commonnefs and Uncleannefs in the latter part. But no t. to give you any more initan, Ces, of this nature, the general nature of holinefs is difcriminanioa or feparation. 2. To an fiver it more particularly, this fetting apart, or difcrinti- nation, or feparation of places for holy utes, mutt have there two properties. v. A place that is holy, mull have filch a reparation from other paces, as that it mull be alienated from all des but holy uleslit mutt not at all be employed to civil tiles, for the employing of it unto ci- vil tires, mull be looked upon as firind and unlawful. Thus in Scrip- ture, when times, things, or perlons are reputed as holy, they are tobe exempted from common employment ; the Sabbath day, a ho- ly d ty, In it thou riz(i not d) any manner ofwork., The Veffels and V- tenji/s of the TemPe were holy, and therefore were not to be tiled to ordinary tires ; and this, as Come think was the great fin ofBel(hazar that he would'offer to drink in the Veffels of the Temple: And a) the garmentsof the Priels were holy, and not to be tired ,by feculae- perfons.' And the Tabernacle and the -Temple were holy, and not to be ufed in civil employment. More
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