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And that all this ought to be done, we will give you one reason, and so come to the uses.

And that reason is drawn from the holiness of the Lord, Isaiah 6. 3. One Angel cried to another, ¹holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory: this [Greek or Hebrew] was the proclamation of Angels, and that upon this occasion. The Lord sends Isaiah the Prophet to pronounce a Judgement to his people, and that a great one, the rejection of the Jews, and at the same time the Angels are sent to proclaim Gods holiness: now holiness is the appropriation of a thing to the Lords ²use, and a sequestration of it from common use: and so the holiness of God himself (which is the rule of all other holiness) is an appropriation of his actions to himself, as his end: he is then said to be holy, when he doth things for himself, therefore being about to do so great a work peculiarly for himself and his glory, as when he would destroy his own people, and destroy Kingdoms for his own best advantage and ends, the glory of himself, then he lets them know this as the only reason, ⟨p. 151⟩because he is holy; for if he should not respect himself, he should not be holy. So Rom. 11. 33. ³to the end. The Apostle having spoken of this rejection here prophesied, concludes with this; His Judgements are unsearchable, and his ways past finding out, &c. of him, and to him, and through him are all things, and to him be glory for ever. As if he should have said, God hath done all this, but I know not the reason of it, nor any one else; only God is for himself, for he being of no cause but himself, therefore he may do all for himself: if he were of another, he might do all for another, yea else he were not holy. Now if this be Gods holiness, then the holiness of man, is to do all for God; which he is therefore to do, because he is of another cause above himself, and therefore is to