Chap, 6. Au Expefition upon the bookof J O B. Verf. i o. God ; when you hear that Title, The holy One, you may know who is meant. This is a Title too bigg for any but a God ; all ho- linefs is in God, and God is fo holy,that properly he only is Holy ; hence the Scripture fits God forth under this, as a peculiar attri- bute ; The holy One; The Prophets often ufe this addition or (tile, The Holy One of lfrael. The Holy One; Is one feparate orfet apartfrom allftlthinefr and wnp uncleannef.r; no evil dwells with God, none comes near him. Seperatua. Therefore he is The Holy One; He is fo feparated from evil, that he cannot behold evil, or lookon iniquity (Hlb. i. a 3.) except with t vindictive eye. Sinnever got a good look fromGod, 9 or ever (hall. Further, God is called the Holy One, in three refpe±s. Fir(f, Becaufe he is all holy in himfelf; Secondly, Becaufe we receive all Wind's from him : Thirdly,Becaufewe are toferve him in holinefr and righteoufnefr all our dayes. A holy Godmuff: bave a holy Service. God is The Holy One ; Fir(l,In his nature; his effence ispurity ; or, he is effential pu- Deis vocatur city. Snfìwr Jfroal Secondly, He is holy inhis word thofe are frequent adjunth jïmpt'te nil of the word ofGod ; holy, pure and clean. quadfamHéa Thirdly, He is holy in his works : There is not the leaft ima- nobb calends, ginable (lain or defilement upon any thinghe hath done. eft, vel quad Thefc three put together, lift up the glory of God in this title tpJofoimeverc The Holy One, He thatisholy throughout in his nature, holy in faatlat ei'. his word,holy in his works, is the holy One; yea, he is, as Mofes flileth him in his triumphing tong, Exod. 15. Glorious in holinefr, Aglorious One. Or, again, we may confider, God The Holy One ; Fira,Radically and fundamentally, becaufe the Divine nature is the root and original,the fpringof all holinefs and purity; all holinefs is in God, and tleere is no holinefs to behad, but in God alone. Secondly, God is, the Holy One by way ofexample and pattern, or in regard ofthe rule and tneafure of holinefs : (a Pet. t. 16.) Beye holy as lam holy ; the holinefsof God it is the exemplar and pattern ofall the holinefs, that is in the creature. Thirdly, God is the holy One, by way of motive; he is, as the rule of holinefs, fo likewife the reafon of our holinefs ; therefore' another Scripture faith, Beyeholy, for I am holy,!am TheholyOne, and that is the reafon, why you muff be holy too. 0002 Fourthly, 467
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