The Gofpel of the Hoy Placen Youmay remember we did refer this Law of Ceremonies to five ge- neral Heads. t. The Initiating Seal of Circumcifion. 2. The Legal Sacrifices and Purifications. 3. The Tabernacle and Temple and other Holy Places. 4. The Priefhood; with all the reft of the Legal Minittry. 5. Their Festivals, or Holy Times and Seafons. We have formerly fpoken to the two firft of there, to wit, the !hi- tiating Seal of Eircnmcifion, and their Legal Sacrifices andPuriftcationsa We are now to proceed in the help of Chrift unto the Third, namely, 3. TheirTabernacleand Temple and other Holy Places ; of which this Text gives you this Doctrinal Aifertion. Dótt. That God waspleafed to chufe out certain Places to fsand in a fpe- ciàl Relation of Holinefs unto binifelf under the Old Teflament. See again in this Chapter, Tlerf. t i . 14, t 8: Pfal. 68. 35. Thom at terrible, ob God, out of thine Holy Places. And Verf. 17. As in Sinai in the Holy Place. But it is needlefs, and would be eafy to multiply Quotations For this Phrafe, Holy Place, and Holy Places, doth occur in the Scrip- ture above Threefcore Times. Let me explain and open a little to you the Nature of this Holinefs of Places that was under the Law. You all know there is a two-fold Holinefs; Inherent -and Relative Holinefs.` Inherent Holinefs is nothing elfe, but the Saving Graces of Sane?ftca- ¡ion in the Souls of Men. Now this is only in Perfons, It is a thing which Places are no 11vay capable of. The Holinefs that is in Places, lea Relative Holinefs ; and it doth confits in a Separation or Jetting them' apart for God to be peculiarly hiie. That this is the Scripture Notion of Holinefs, and that particular- ly in reference to Holy Places, you may. fee in Deut. 9. 2, 7 NA. : compa- red with ¡h.20.7. That which in the one Place is calledSeparati- on, in the other is called SarLification ; Thou /haltfeparate three Cities for Cities of.Refuge, faith the Lord by Mofes. And they fang? fred Kedeth and Sechem, faith the Text in fofhua. The contrary toHolinefs, is that which is Commonor.Vnclean, Acts to. 14. God hash a fpecial Propriety in that which is Holy, it belongs to God as his peculiar, Exod. 13. 2. Santlify unto me all the firfl-born, it is mine. Hence the nearer to God any Place or Thing is the more of Separation to his life, the more Holy. Thus you fee, the general Notion of it. Now to defcend to force Particulars, This
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