6 GENERAL PAIN especial manner. And this also manifesteth him to bey God; for it is God alone who sanctifieth his people. Lev. xx. 8. I am Jehovah who sanctjfreth you. And God, in that work ascribes, unto himself the title of holy in an especial manner, and as such would have us to consider him. Lev. xxi. 8. I theLordwhich sanctj ieth you am holy. And this may be one reason of the fre- quent use of this property with reference unto the Spirit. Sect. 10. But this is not the whole reason of this name and appellation. For where he is first so men- tioned, he is called the Spirit of God's Holiness, Post. li. 11. Isa. lxiii. 10, 11. And in the New 'Testament absolutely the Spirit of Holiness, Rom. i. 4. And this respects his nature, in the first place, and not merely his operations. As God then absolutely is called Holy, the Holy One, and the Holy One of Israel, be- ing therein described by that glorious property of his nature, whereby he is glorious in holiness, Exod xv. ll. And whereby he is distinguished from all false gods; " who is like unto thee, O Jehovah,- among the u gods, who is like unto thee, glorious in holiness;" so is the Spirit called Holy, to denote the holiness of his nature.. And, onthis account, is the opposition made be- tween him and the unholy, or unclean spirit. Mark iii. 29, 30. " He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Spi- " rit, bath never forgiveness. Because they said hebath " an unclean spirit." And herein first his personality is asserted; for the unclean spirit is a person. And if the Spirit of God were only a quality or accident, as some fancy and dream, there could no comparative opposition be made between him and this unclean Spirit, that is the devil. So also are they opposed with respect unto their natures. His nature is holy, whereas that of the unclean spirit is evil and perverse. This is the founda- tion of his being called holy; even the eternal glorious holiness of his nature. And, on this account, he is so styled also with respect unto all his operations. For it is not only with regard unto the particular work of re- generation and sanctification, or making of us holy, but unto all his works and operations that he is so termed. For he being the immediate operator of all divine works that outwardlyare of God, and theybeing in themselves CIPLES CONCERNING all holy, he they of what kind soever, he is called the Holy Spirit. Yea, he is so called, to attest and witness that all his works, all the works of God, are holy, although they may be great and terrible, and such as to corrupt reason may have another appearance; in all which we areto acquiesce,in this, that the Holy One in the midst of us will do no iniquity, Zeph. iii. 5. The Spirit of God then is thus frequently and almost con- stantly called holy; to attest that all the works of God, whereofhe is the immediate operator are holy. Por it is the work of the Spirit to harden and blind obstinate sinners, as well as to sanctify the elect. And his acting in the one is no less holy than in the other, although holiness be not the effect of it in the objects. So, when he came to declare his dreadful work of the final hard- ening and rejection of the Jews, one of the most tre- mendous effects of divine providence, a work which, for the strangeness of it, menwould in no wise believe, though it were declared unto them, Acts xiii. 41, he was signally proclaimed holy by the seraphims that attended his throne, Isa. vi. 3, 10, 11, 12., Join! xii. 40. Acts xxviii. 26. Sect. 11. There are indeed some actions on men, and in theworld, that are wrought by God'spermission, and in his righteous judgment, by evil spirits; whose persons and actings are placed in opposition to the Spi- rit of God. So Sam. xvi. 14, 15. " The Spirit of the " Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the " Lord troubled him. And Saul's servants said unto " him, behold now an evil spirit from God troubled) " thee." So also ver. 23. 'The evil spirit from God was upon Saul. So chap. xviii. 10. and chap. xix. 9. This spirit is called, ns7 na5es .nil, an evil spirit ofGod, chap. xvi. 15. and absolutely nines ti i. a Spirit ofGod, verse 33. where we have suppliedevil in the translation. But these expressions are to be regulated and explained by ver 14. where lie is called np, rem min yob an evil ritfrona the Lord, that is appointed and commissioned by him, for the punishing and terrifying of Saul.. For, as the Spirit of the Lord departed from him, by with- drawing his assistance and influential operations, where by he had wrought in him those gifts and abilities of mind, which fitted him unto the discharge of his kingly office, upon the first impressions whereof he was turned into another man from what he was in his private con- dition, 1 Sam. x. 6, 9. So the evil spirit came upon Aeyera. ro.,ur ,recvtea dry,er. 'Aurayag êrw ry arpe wx. wgar ,rgorr,yoq,a ÿ eleyarnwa.rsgar ixour rnr S,avo,ar, wa, weg.rava r oá74 wve uffarot rnr wear.Chrysost. ub. Sup.
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