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purpose that I might be your God;" the designs of his grace concerning them--I am the Lord that hallow you; and the resolutions of his justice, if he had not honour from them, to get himself honour upon them--I will be hallowed among the children of Israel. God will be a loser in his glory by no man at last; but sooner or later will recover his right, either in the repentance of sinners or in their ruin.
32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed
among the children of Israel: I am the Lord which hallow you,
33 that brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the
Lord.
Leviticus-23
The Appointed Feasts
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, concerning the
feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
A general account of the holy times which God appointed (Le 23:2), and it is only his appointment that can make time holy; for he is the Lord of time, and as soon as ever he had set its wheels a-going it was he that sanctified and blessed one day above the rest, Ge 2:3. Man may by his appointment make a good day (Es 9:19), but it is God's prerogative to make a holy day; nor is any thing sanctified but by the stamp of his institution. As all inherent holiness comes from his special grace, so all adherent holiness from his special appointment. Now, concerning the holy times here ordained, observe,
1. They are called feasts. The day of atonement, which was one of them, was a fast; yet, because most of them were appointed for joy and rejoicing, they are in the general called