Attributes of God - Charnock - XXXVI - Chapter 11 (God's holiness) continued

Required reading
Attributes of God by Charnock (Available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example) - Continue Chapter 11 (A discourse upon the holiness of God) by reading up to the paragraph beginning, 'III. The third thing I am to do, is to lay down some propositions in the defence of God's holiness in all his acts about or concerning sin.'

My summary
This week Charnock inquires after proofs that God is holy.

Firstly we see God's holiness appears as he is creator in framing man in a perfect uprightness.

Secondly God's holiness appears in his laws as he is a lawgiver and judge.  This is evident in the:
(i) moral law;
(ii) ceremonial law;
(iii) allurements annexed to it for keeping it and the affrightments to restrain from the breaking of it;
(iv) judgments inflicted for the violation of it.

Thirdly the holiness of God appears in our restoration.  Particularly in the:
(i) manner of our restoration by the death of Christ;
(ii) justification of believers;
(iii) actual regeneration of the redeemed soul and a carrying it on to a full perfection.

What grabbed me
Loved Charnock's description of God's holiness at the cross: 'Never did Divine holiness appear more beautiful and lovely than at the time our Savior’s countenance was most marred in the midst of His dying groans. This Himself acknowledges in Psalm 22. When God had turned His smiling face from Him, and thrust His sharp knife into His heart, which forced that terrible cry from Him, "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" He adores this perfection—"Thou art holy."  Thy holiness is the spring of all this sharp agony, and for this thou inhabitest, and shalt for ever inhabit, the praises of all thy Israel.  Holiness drew the veil between God's countenance and our Saviour's soul.  Justice indeed gave the stroke, but holiness ordered it.  In this his purity did sparkle, and his irreversible justice manifested that all those that commit sin are worthy of death; this was the perfect index of his righteousness, Rom. iii. 29, that is, of his holiness and truth.'

What beautiful writing about the most holy event in history.

Next week's reading
Continue Chapter 11 (A discourse upon the holiness of God) by reading up to the paragraph beginning, 'IV. The point was, that holiness is a glorious perfection of the nature of God.'

Now it's your turn
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