. A Vindication of the worship of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Supreme God, in all the dispensations, patriarchal, mosaick and Christian : demonstrating, that Christ was so known and worship'd in all ages, from Adam to this day. fwerevery Particular of this Pamphlet, 1 do not think itWorth mine ,• but fince the whole is levelled to de-throne the Son of God, and rob him of his Honourand Wortfr*., and that with Falfhood and Untruths,I think it worth my wh:le, and my Duty, to unde-ceive the World, and (hew the Injury done to Chrift,and fo Truth, and lay open the Impertinency of thisWriter, whole
. A Vindication of the worship of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Supreme God, in all the dispensations, patriarchal, mosaick and Christian : demonstrating, that Christ was so known and worship'd in all ages, from Adam to this day. fwerevery Particular of this Pamphlet, 1 do not think itWorth mine ,• but fince the whole is levelled to de-throne the Son of God, and rob him of his Honourand Wortfr*., and that with Falfhood and Untruths,I think it worth my wh:le, and my Duty, to unde-ceive the World, and (hew the Injury done to Chrift,and fo Truth, and lay open the Impertinency of thisWriter, whole whole Drift is to difturbthe Mindsof the Simple, to raife Diftraftion among the Weak,to ~jve a Handle to Libertines, and encourage theProfane. And I ihall think this fufficiently done,when I fhallhave fhew n that Jefus Chrift is that very God whomthe Scripture fets before us as the Objecl: of divineWo * Chip • and that the Precepts for woriliipping ofChrift, a*-e the very fame, and couched in the veryfame Words as thefeare which require Worfhip tothe Father; and that the Inftances and Examplesare as many as the Saints of God whofe Namesare recorded in the Scriptures. CHAP. ^5»§ y!§ y*y w y^^iy! ^!£*y vft? ^yISsv^. CHAP. I. The fir ft thing I am to do, is to give an hifto-rical account of the Rife of that deteftableTrof option, That there is neither preceptnor example for worjhipping Chrift as God,in the holy Scripture, HIS is not only owing to the SocmanPrinciples of Chrift being a Creature,tho exalted to the higheft degree ofhonour, but is what Socinus himfelftaught, and endeavoured to introduceby degrees : For having positively aflerted that hisOpinion of Chrift * was different from all Christi-ans, and contrary to ail the Interpreters of Scrip-ture to his time, and that he is not God, but a Manonly t, tho honoured with the Title of the Son ofGod, becaufe of his Conception, and Reflirredionfrom the dead ; he himfelf began to doubt whetherhe fhould therefore be worfhip
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