A31961:612
An Exact collection of farewell sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…
An Exact collection of farewell sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.
London : s.n., 1662
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1. More generally, That the cause and the foundation of a place, or any other things holiness, it is its belonging to God, Gods peculiar relation to it, and propriety in it, declared as he shall please: And therefore to be holy, and to be Gods, are words of the like importance, or equivalent, its being Gods, and his having a relation to it, is the foundation and cause of its holiness. And therefore if you look into Exodus 13. 2. you shall there find God commands, that they should sanctify unto him all the first-born, it is mine; there now is that which is the cause, and reason, and ground of its being ⟨p. 287⟩sanctified, or holy, it is God himself, God hath a propriety in it. And therefore I desire you to look into Luke 2. 23. it will open this notion to you; there you shall see, that this command is again repeated, but yet in other words, and therefore ye saith, As it is written in the Law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord; that which is said in one place to be sanctified or separated, is here said to be holy; and therefore holy, because separated to God, Levit. 27. 30. All the Tithes of the land is the Lord•, it is holy unto the Lord; it is holy, and therefore holy because because it is the Lords. So that here is the general answer. This is the foundation, ground and cause of its holiness, Gods peculiar propriety in it, it is the Lords.
1. More generally, That the cause and the foundation of a place, or any other things holiness, it is its belonging to God, Gods peculiar relation to it, and propriety in it, declared as he shall please: And therefore to be holy, and to be Gods, are words of the like importance, or equivolent, its being Gods, and his having a relation to it, is the foundation and cause of its holiness. And therefore if you look into Exodus 13. 2. you shall there find God commands, that they should sanctifie unto him all the first-born, it is mine; there now is that which is the cause, and reason, and ground of its being ⟨p. 287⟩