326 The Gofpel of the Holy Places. This Holinefs of Places was Two-fold, either tranfient and meetly for the prefent Time, or elfe more permanent and abiding. T. The tranfient Holinefs of Places was where the Lord gave vifible Appearances of himfelf in his glorious Majefty to the Eyes of his Ser- vants ; fuch Places were Holy during the time of fuch Divine Appea- rances. So when the Lord appeared to Mofes in the burningBufh, Exod. 3. $. the Place whereon thou fiandeft its holy Ground. And he faith the like to 3ofhua, cap. S. 15. So Mount Sinai was holy, and therefore might not be touched, Exod. 19. Upon the fame Account the Mount where Chrift was Transfigured is called the Holy Mount, z Pet. I. 18. I call this a tranfsent kind of Holinefs, becaufe it continued no long- er, but while that extraordinary Prefence continued. There is no more Holinefs in Mount Sinai or Mount Tabor now, than in any other Place. The Apoftle calls it the Holy Mount from what it was, not that it is fo frill Therefore it is but a fuperftitious Thing in the Pa- pifis to go on Pilgrimage to Yerufalem, and to vifit the Holy Sepulchre, and the like, there is no Holinefs in them now. z. But fecondly, there was alfo a more permanent and abiding Ho- linefs of Places under the Law, during that whole Legal Difpenfa- tion. Quell. What were there Places ? Anfm. I fhall inftance chiefly in four Particulars. 1. The Land of Canaan was an Holy Land, fo called each. 2. 12. the Lord (hall, inherit Judah his Portion in the Holy Land. It was a Type of Heaven, Heb.' 11. 14, 16. they fought another Country, a better Coun- try, that vs, an heavenly ; thine Eyes fhall fee the Land that its very far off, Ifa.32.r7. gliimpfes of Heaven and Glory. And force fpecial Places in the Land were holy, as z. The Cities of Refuge, whereof there were fix, three on this fide, and three on the other fide Gordan. The Inftitution and Ordinance for it you have in Deut. 19. the Performance in Yofh..zo. where there Cities are faid to be fan&ified. And that there was a Gofpel-Myflery in this Ordinance, and what it was the Apoftle infinuates, Beb. 6. 18. who have fled for Refuge, to lay hold upon the hope jet before us. The Souls flyingto Xis Chrift, and finding Safety and Shelter there, when purfued by the Law, as the avenger of Blood, is the Gofpel-myftery of that Ordinance. 3. The Tabernacle, the Temple, the Ark and all the Places where they came, 2 Chron. 8. 1 I. The Places are holy whereunto the Ark ofthe Lord bath come. The Ark did as it were Confecrate them, and fo there was a Reverence due to them. The
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