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A. It is the infinite Purity of his Nature, whereby he delights in his own Holiness, and the Refemblance of it in his Creatures, and hates all Impurity, Hab. i. 13. Thon art of purer Eyes than to behold evil, and canft not look on Iniquity.

Q. 3. What is the first Property of God's Holiness?

A. He is effentially holy. Holiness is not a feparable Quality in God, as it is in Angels and Men: but his Being and his Holinefs are one Thing.

Q.4. What is the fecond Property of God's Holiness;

A. God is effentially holy, the Author and Fountain of all communicated Holiness, Lev. xx. 8. I am the Lord which fanctifieth you.

5. What is the third Property?

A. That the Holinefs of God is the perfect Rule and Pattern of Holiness to all Creatures, 1 Pet. i. 16. Be ye holy, for I am holy.

Q6. What is the firft Inftruction?

A. That the holieft of Men have caufe to be afhamed and humbled when they come before God, Ifa. vi. 3, 5. And one cried unto another, faying, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hoft, the whole Earth is full of his Glory. Then faid I, Woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a Man of unclean Lips,

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Q7. What is the second Inftrution from God's Holinefs?

A. That there is no coming near to God without a Mediator; for our God is a confuming Fire.

Q. 8. What is the third Instruction from God's Holinefs? A. That Holinefs is indifpenfibly neceffary, to all those which fhall dwell with him in Heaven, Heb. xii. 14. And Holiness, without which no Man fhall fee the Lord.

Q. 9. What is the fourth Inftruction from hence?

A. That the Gofpel is of ineftimable Value, as it is the Inftrument of conveying the Holiness of God to us, 2 Cor. iii. 18. But we all with open Face beholding as in a Glass the Glory of the Lord, are changed into the fame Image, from Glory to Glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord, Joh. xvii. 17. Sanctify them through thy Truth, thy Word is Truth.

Q10. What is the last Instruction from God's Holiness?

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A. That all the Defpifers and Scoffers of Holiness, are Defpifers of God: For Holiness is the very Nature of God; and in the Creature it is his reprefented Image.

Of God's Justice.

Queft. 1. WHAT is the Juftice of God?

A. The Justice of God is the perfect Rectitude and Equity of his Nature, whereby he is juft in himfelf, and in all his Ways towards the Creatures, Deut. xxxii. 4. He is the Rock, his Work is perfect for all his Ways are Judgment; a God of Truth, and without Iniquity, just and right is he.

Q 2. What is the first Property of God's Juftice?

A. That it infinitely excels all human Juftice in the Perfection of it. No Creature can compare in Justice with God. Job ix. 2. How shall Man be just with God.

Q3. What is the fecond Property of God's Juftice?

A. That he is univerfally righteous in all his Administrations in the World, Pfal. cxlv, 17. The Lord is righteous in all his Ways, and holy in all his Works.

Q4. What was the greatest Demonftration of the Juftice of God that ever was given to the World?

A. The greatest Evidence that ever was given of the Juf tice of God, was in his exact ng full Satisfaction for our Sins upon Chritt, Rom. iii. 25, 26. Whom God hath set forth, to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood, 10 declare his Righteoufn fs for the Remiffion of Sins that are paft, through the Forbearance of God. To declare, I fay, at this Time, his Rightecufness, that he might be just, and the Juftifier of him which believeth in Jefus, Rom. viii. 32. He pared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all.

Q. 5. What is the fecond Discovery of God's Juftice?

A. The fecond Difcovery of the Juftice of God is in the eternal Punishment of Sin in Hell, upon all that do not repent, and come to Christ by Faith in this World, Rom. ii. 5. But after thy hardness and impenitent Heart, treasureth up unto thy Jelf Wrath against the Day of Wrath, and Revelation of the righteous Judgment of God.

Q. 6. What is the Third Evidence of God's Juftice? A. The Third Evidence of the Justice of God is, in making good all the Mercies he hath promifed to Believers, exactly to a Tittle, 1 Joh. i. 19. If we confefs our Sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our Sins, and to cleanfe us from all Unrighteoufnefs, 2 Tim. iv. 8. Henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteoufnefs, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me at that Day.

Q7. What is the Firit Inference from God's Justice?

A. That Sinners have no Cause to complain of God's Judgments, though they be never fo terrible, or durable, Rom. ii. 5. But after thy Hardness, and impenitent Heart, treaJureft up unto thyself Wrath against the Day of Wrath, and Revelation of the righteous Judgment of God.

Q. 8. What is the Second Inference from God's Juftice? A. That without Doubt there is Judgment to come in the next Life, otherwife God would not have the Glory of his Juftice? Ecclef. iii. 16, 17. I faw under the Sun the Place of Judgment, that Wickedness was there; and the Place of Righteousness, that Iniquity was there: I said in mine Heart, God fhall judge the righteous, and the wicked.

Q. 9. What is the Third Inference from God's Juftice? A. That penitent and believing Sinners need not Doubt of the Forgiveness of their Sins, 1 John i. 9. If we confess our Sins, he is faithful and juft to forgive us our Sins, and 10 cleanfe us from all Unrighteousness.

Q. 10. What is the laft Inference from it?

A. The Laft Inference is, thar Meeknefs and Patience under Afflictions, is our unquestionable Duty; and Murmuring against God, is a great Sin and Evil, Lam. iii. 39. Wherefore doth a living Man complain, a Man for the Puni ment of his Sins?

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Of God's Goodness.

HAT is the Goodness of God? A. It is an effential Property of his Nature, whereby he is abfolutely and perfectly good in himfelf, and the Fountain of all communicated Goodness to the

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Creature, Pfalm cxix. 68. Thou art good, and doft good, teach me thy Statutes.

Q. 2. How doth the Goodness of God differ from the Mercy of God?

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A. It differs in its Objects; for Mifery is the Object of Mercy; but Goodness extends to the Creatures that are happy, as well as miferable; as the Angels, Pfal. cxlv. 9. The Lord is good to all, and his tender Mercies are over all his Works.

Q3. What is the First Property of God's Goodness ?

A. That all his other Attributes flow out of it as their Fountain: The other A&ts of God are but the Effluxes of his Goodness, Exod. xxxiii. 19. And he faid, I will make all my Goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the Name of the Lord before thee, and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will fhew Mercy unto whom I will shew Mercy, Exod. xxxiv. 6. And the Lord paffed by before him, and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longSuffering, and abundant in Goodness and Truth.

Q. 4. What is the Second Property of the divine Good nefs?

A. That it is fupream, and perfect in itself, so as the Goodness of no Creature is, or can be, Luke xviii. 19. None is good farve one, and that is God: And confequently above all additions from the Creature, Pfalm xvi. 2. 0 my Soul, thou haft faid unto the Lord my Goodness extendith not unto

thee.

Q5. What is the Third Property of God's Goodness? A. That it is communicative with Pleasure and Delight to the Creature: No Mother draws out her Breast to an hungry Child with more Pleasure than God doth his Goodnefs to the Saints, Pfalm cxlv. 9. The Lord is good to all, and his tender Mercies are over all his Works.

Q. 6. In what Acts hath God first manifefted his Goodnefs?

A. He hath manifefted it in the Creation and Government of the World, Pfalm civ. 24. O Lord, how manifold are thy Works? in Wisdom haft thou made them all.

Q. 7. What was the principal Work in which God hath manifefted his Goodness to Men?

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A. The principal Manifeftation of God's Goodness, was in the Work of Redemption by Christ, Rom. v. 8. God commended bis Love towards us, in that while we were yet Sinners, Chrift died for us, 1 John iv. 8, 9. In this was manifefted the Love of God towards us, becaufe that God fent his only begotten Son into the World, that we might live through him.

Q. 8. But are not the Judgments of God on the wicked, and his Afflictions on the Saints, Impeachments of his goodness?

A. No; it is the Property of goodnefs to hate and punish Evil in the Impenitent, Exod. xxxiv. 7. Keeping Mercy for Thousands forgiving Iniquity, and Tranfgreffion, and Sin, and that will by no Means clear the Guilty, &c. And the Afflictions of the Saints flow from his goodness, and end in their true and eternal good. Heb. xii. 6. For whom the Lord loveth, he chafteneth, and fcourgeth every Son whom he receiveth, Pfalm cxix. 71. It is good for me that I have been afSticted, that I might learn thy Statutes.

Q9. What may we infer from the goodness of God?

A. The first Thing is, that Sin hath made our Natures bafe, and difingenuous, in that we take no Notice of his goodness, Ifa. i. 3. The Ox knoweth his owner, and the Afs bis Mafter's Crib; but Ifrael doth not know, my People doth not confider; and anfwer not the Defign of it, Rom. ii. 4. Not knowing that the Goodness of God leadeth thee to Repentance. Q10. What is the second Inference from the goodness of God?

A. That therefore God is the fittest Object of our Delight, and Love, and of our Truft and Confidence. (1) Of our Delight and Love, Pfalm cxvi. 1. I love the Lord, because he hath beard my Voice, and my Supplication. (2) Of.our Truft and Confidence, Pfalm xxxiv. 8. O tafte and fee that the Lord is good; bleed is the Man that trusteth in him.♪

Q11. What is the Third Inference from God's goodnefs?

A. That Chriftians fhould imitate God in his goodness, in Charity to their Enemies, Matt. v. 44, 45. But I say unio you, Love your Enemies, bless them that curfe you, do good to them that hate you, pray for them which defpitefully use you, and

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