The Mystery of godliness, consider'd in lxisermons : wherein the deity of Christ is prov'd upon no other evidence than the Word of God, and with no other view than for the salvation of men . reation is notthe work of an almighty but a derivd power \and that it ceafes to be, what all ages have hithertomade it, the argument of a Deity: We worf:ip ^,how down before the Lord our Maker Know that ^ 3*the Lord he is God, it is he that has made usy and notTve ourfelves. The invifible things of him from the ^omcreation of the world are clearly feen-^ being underfioodby the things that are made


The Mystery of godliness, consider'd in lxisermons : wherein the deity of Christ is prov'd upon no other evidence than the Word of God, and with no other view than for the salvation of men . reation is notthe work of an almighty but a derivd power \and that it ceafes to be, what all ages have hithertomade it, the argument of a Deity: We worf:ip ^,how down before the Lord our Maker Know that ^ 3*the Lord he is God, it is he that has made usy and notTve ourfelves. The invifible things of him from the ^omcreation of the world are clearly feen-^ being underfioodby the things that are made^ even his eternal power andGodhead, Is it not very ftrangc that God himfelfihould give us a book, that we might have eternallife in the knowledge of him and of Jefus Chrittwhom he has fent,- and that we fliould read of Je-fus Chrift in the fame fulnefs and glory of lan-guage thats usd for himfelf, and yet be obliged totake the fame words in different fenfes ? that wemufl neither know whether he is God or a creature ?whether he is to be worihip*d or no ? have nobounds fet to our veneration of him, and to keepit from rifing into idolatry? Pddj SERMON 20. 774 Arguments agatnjl the. -?SERMON LIV. S E R


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