sacred  volume  upon  this  head  may  be  comprised  in  the
following  propositions  :  God  is  Holy,  that  is,  He  loves  and
wills  whatever  is  true,  good,  and  right,  and  for  ever  abhors
all  that  is  false,  unjust,  or  vile  (Lev.  xix.  2  ;  Ps.  xi.  7,  xxii.
3;  Isa.  vi.  3;  James  i.  13 ;  1  Pet.  i.  15—17;  1  John
iii.  3,  &c.) : — God  is  Just,  that  is,  in  all  his  intercourse  with
his  intelligent  creatures,  He  maintains  an  inflexible  regard
to  the  claims  of  that  Law,  under  which  he  has  placed  them,
and  in  which  he  has  embodied  a  revelation  of  his  own
intrinsic  perception  of  what  is  true,  good,  and  right  (Deut.
xxxii.  4;  Job  xxxiv.  10;  Ps.  ix.  5,  cxlv.  17;  Isa.  v.  16;
Rom.  vii.  12;  1  Pet.  ii.  23;  Rev.  xvi.  5,  &c.): — God  is
Faithful  and  True,  that  is,  He  never  changes  his  rule  of
moral  procedure  towards  his  creatures,  nor  departs  from
the  declarations  he  has  made  respecting  the  consequences
of  particular  courses  of  conduct,  which  they  may  pursue
(Isa.  xl.  8  ;  Ps.  xxxiii.  4  ;  Mai.  iii.  6  ;  Rom.  iii.  3,  4,  iv.  20
31;  2  Cor.  i.  18;  1  Thess.  v.  24;  2  Tim.  ii.  13;  James
i.  17,  &c.) : — God  is  Good,  that  is.  He  loves  all  his  creatures,
provides  for  their  happiness,  pities  them  in  their  degene-
racy, and  is  prepense  to  tlie  exercise  of  mercy  and  grace
towards  tliem,  (Ps.  civ.  10 — 31  ;  Exod.  xxxiv.  6;  Ps.  ciii.,
cxlv.  9  ;  Jer.  xxxi.  20  ;  Joel  ii.  13  ;  Matt.  v.  45  ;  Rom.  ii.
