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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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3. God's Covenant People are a consecrated People, they have holiness to the Lord written upon them; Cast a placent superis—Deut. 7.6. Thou art an holy people to the Lord thy God. God's Covenant People are separated from the World, and sanctified by the Spirit. The Priests under the Law were not only to wash in the great Laver, but were arrayed with glorious Apparel, Exod. 28.2. This was Typical, to show God's People are not only washed from gross sin, but adorned with holiness of heart: they bear not only God's Name, but Image. Tamerlane refused a Pot of Gold, when he saw it had not his Fathers stamp upon it, but the Roman stamp. Holiness is God's stamp, if he doth not see this stamp upon us, he will not own us for his Covenant People.
3. God's Covenant People are a consecrated People, they have holiness to the Lord written upon them; Cast a placent superis—Deut. 7.6. Thou art an holy people to the Lord thy God. God's Covenant People are separated from the World, and sanctified by the Spirit. The Priests under the Law were not only to wash in the great Laver, but were araied with glorious Apparel, Exod. 28.2. This was Typical, to shew God's People are not only washed from gross sin, but adorned with holiness of heart: they bear not only God's Name, but Image. Tamerlain refused a Pot of Gold, when he saw it had not his Fathers stamp upon it, but the Roman stamp. Holiness is God's stamp, if he doth not see this stamp upon us, he will not own us for his Covenant People.
Use 3. of Exhort. To such as are out of Covenant, labour to get into Covenant and have God for your God. How glad would the old World have been of an Ark? How industrious should we be to get within the Ark of the Covenant.