l I 'R_ta(. ~ I Offeek.ing Gods (ttce. ----------~--~=---~-·--~-------- . cion to ir, which tends to ~h!! prefervation ofour regenerate felfe, and proves fo in the end. So then to feeke Giods face containe.s thefe three things in it. Firll:, tohlVe h~ face revealed to yo::~, and to fee him as a father• . To feeke him as feque!l:redfrom punitbments an~ rewards. . , To fc::ke him alone in oppolicion to your felv&. · ' · ~ , · · · A~d that all this ought to b-edone,'we will give you one reafon, and fo comet':() ~he ufes. · And that reafon is drawnefrom theholineffe of the Lord, Eftty 6. 3. · one AnzeUcryed to ttnbther, bo!y,-hfJly, holy is the Lord of Hojts ·;the whole earth is fuU,of his Glor1 : ' this T~r~rl:)/toi was the proclatnati~ .on of .Angds, and that up~m this occafion. The .LordfendsE(ay the Prophet toproneunce aIudge. ·ment to his people, and th:rt~a great one, the rejecti- . on of the Iewes, and at the fame time the !.Angels - are f~t to proclame Gods holineffe : now holi- : neffe is the appropriation of a thing to the :Lords · ufe,and a fequdl:ra-tionofit frorp commonufe: and : fo the holineffeof God himfelfo (which is the rule .of all other holinc:tfe) is an appropriltion of his · :actions tohimfelfe, as hisend: he i~ then fa id to be holy, whenhedoth things for himfetfe, therefore being abo~1t to do fo ·great a·worke peculiarly for _ I himfelfe and his glory, as when he would dell:roy . h·s owne -p~ople, and defrroy .Kingdomes for his . wne bdl: ad·vamage andends, the glory of him. .. lfe, :hen he lets t~em kno~ t~is as t~~ only ~~~-;
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