A34165:300
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.
London : s.n., 1663
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2. To show what the cause or the foundation of this holiness is; for this my Brethren, I shall desire you also to take notice of it more generally, and then more particularly.
2. To shew what the cause or the foundation of this holiness is; for this my Brethren, I shall desire you also to take notice of it more generally, and then more particularly.
1. More generally, That the cause and the foundation of a place, or any other thing's 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, & to be Gods, are the words of the like importance, or equivalence; its being Gods, and his having a relation to it, is the foundation and cause of its holiness. And therefore if you look into Exod. 15.2. you shall there find God commands, that they should sanctify to him all the first-born, it is mine; there now is that which is the cause, and reason, and ground of its being sanctified, or holy, it is God himself; God hath a propriety in it. And therefore I desire you to look into Luk 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 he 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 Lords, it is holy unto the Lord; it is holy, and therefore holy 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 thing's 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, & to be Gods, are the words of the like importance, or equivolence; its being Gods, and his having a relation to it, is the foundation and cause of its holiness. And therefore if you look into