The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London /

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, Eph. 5. 25, 26. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word. Christ he gives himself for his Church; to what end? Not that he might bring it to Heaven only, but that he might sanctify it also; and then the Spirit of God, 1 Cor. 6. 11. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. So that all the three persons come in for a share in this work: this is the glorious work of Father, Son, and Holy ghost.

Again, when God reloyces 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 himselfe above all the people that are upon the face of the earth. Yea further, you shall finde that this attribute of holinesse 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 Holinesse: and tis very observable, that all the three persons challenge an equall share in the working of holinesse 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,