468 Chap.6. An Expofttion uponthe Bookof J O B. Verf. t o. Fourthly, God is, The holy One, effectively, becaufe he works, conveighs and propagates all holinefs to, and in the creature. No- thing canframe a heart to holinefs but the finger ofGod. Man can nomore make himfelf, or another holy; than he can redeem ano- ther or himfelf. Fifthly, He is called, The holy One, by way ofeminency or fu- per-excellency ; becaufe his holinefs is infinitely beyond ail the holinefs ofmen and Angels. Angels are holy, and God is pleated to fay ofmen, that they are holy; but notman, nor Angel, can be called, The holy One, ; His fupremacy in holinefs ,fhines forth in fuch beams and rayes, as there. FirkH.ólinefsin God it is not a goality,but his effence.Holinefs in Angels is a quality;the effence ofmany Angelscontinues though their holinefs be loft and vanithed ; the lapfèd Angels, who are now devils, keep their nature, but their holinefs is gone ; there- fore holinefs was but a qualityor accidental to their. ; So in the Saints, holinefs is an intution, a quality, a grace ; moll men never had any holinefs, and the man would remain, though his holinefs fhould be loft. But in God, his effence and his holinefs are the fame;The bolinerr of God, it it the holy God-, as the wifdom ofGod, it is the wife God o and the powerof God, it is the powerful God. Theattributes of God,for our learning,are diflinguithedfrom his na- ture, but in him they are thefame. Secondly, God is 7h/billy One eminently, above men and An- gels, becaufe he is abfolutely perfet in holinefs. Abfolutely per- fed ; 11th, becaufe he is holy, extenfively (ifwe may fo fpeak of God) in all parts, he is holy throughout ; and then, he is holy in- tenfively, as he is holy in all parts, fo he is altogether holy in eve-. y part. Holy men have holinefs in every part, yet they are holy' but in part; and though Angels be holy in everypart extenfìvely, and have allo a perfeEtionof holinefs, yet they have not an abfo- lute perfeecionofholinefs; therefore Angels themfelves are charge- able with folly,compared with God Chap,4. t8..God is fo light that inhim there is no darknefs at all, he is fo holy,thát in him, there is no unholinefs at all. But men,thebelt ofinen, all. the Saints ups onearth, have darknefs with their light, and unholinefs mixed ávh their holinefs. Therefore in the third place, the eminency ofGod in holinefs appeareth in this, that God is ever equally holy, ever in the fame_ degree and frame of hólinefs. ; Angels are fo too, becaufe they are con.
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