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The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London /
The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painful minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughs.The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painfull minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed by T.C. for John Wright, 1654
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Again, God glories in heaven it self as the habitation of his holiness: heaven is the habitation of Gods glory, there God lets out his glory fully: but what is that glory? why the top of all, is, the holiness of God. Isaiah 63. 15. Look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and thy glory: yea the throne of God is Gods holiness, Psal. 47. 8. God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness; you know Kings upon their thrones are exalted and lifted up, so is God lifted up upon the throne of his holiness. Solomon, he made himself a throne of Ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold, 1 Kings 10. 18. But the throne of God is a throne of holiness, a throne of bright shining holiness.
Again, God glories in heaven it selfe as the habitation of his holinesse: heaven is the habitation of Gods glory, there God lets out his glory fully: but what is that glory? why the top of all, is, the holinesse of God. Isaiah 63. 15. Looke downe from heaven and behold from the habitation of thy holinesse and thy glory: yea the throne of God is Gods holinesse, Psal. 47. 8. God sitteth upon the throne of his holinesse; you know Kings upon their thrones are exalted and lifted up, so is God lifted up upon the throne of his holinesse. Solomon, he made himselfe a throne of Ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold, 1 Kings 10. 18. But the throne of God is a throne of holinesse, a throne of bright shining holinesse.
Again, when God rejoices in his people, he doth it as they are a holy people, Deut. 7. 6. For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself above all the people that are upon the face of the earth. Yea further, you shall find that this attribute of holiness is more especially ascribed to the third person in the Trinity: God the Father is a holy God; the Son, he is the holy one of God; but the Holy ghost hath his name from Holiness: and tis very observable, that all the three persons challenge an equal share in the working of holiness in the creature, it being such a part of Gods glory, that all the three persons work it wheresoever it is: as the Father, he is a Sanctifier. Jude speaks of the work of sanctification wrought by God the Father in the first verse of his Epistle, To them that are sanctified by God the Father. And then for the Son,