. 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. ntemptuously, as that he was hard-ly worthy of his Regard *, they fhould then wor-(hip him with divine Honours, pay Adoration tohim as God, and obey his Precepts as divine. So we fee chat from this abominable Herefy boththefe fad Popofitions flow, That Chrift is not to,be wor(hipp*d, becaufe nor God; and the very con-trary to i:, That Chrift is to be worrtiippd, althoh
. 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. ntemptuously, as that he was hard-ly worthy of his Regard *, they fhould then wor-(hip him with divine Honours, pay Adoration tohim as God, and obey his Precepts as divine. So we fee chat from this abominable Herefy boththefe fad Popofitions flow, That Chrift is not to,be wor(hipp*d, becaufe nor God; and the very con-trary to i:, That Chrift is to be worrtiippd, althohe be not God. And hence we fee whence has his evil Principles, andwhence he has learned to diflemble, as if he wor-fhipoed Chrift, and prayed to Chrift, as he tells ushe icaietimes did, cho he wor/hippd him not f* Having thus (hewn you the Rife of this horriblePrrpoluicn, I proceed to (hew the notorious Falf-hocd of ir, and lay open the horrid Wickednefs ofthole that have embraced it, and endeavour to in-fed others with it. * Socin. in flit. rel. chr» p. \6. g. Quid ex us quae ad Chrift inaturam five eflentiam pertinent cognita eiTe ncceflarium cenfes ?R. Vix Staunton, j>. 77. CHAP. XI. CHAP. II. Of the ObjeEi of are two Things to be proved : Firft, That God is the Object of Ado-ration and Worfhip. Secondly, That God alone is the Object of DivineWorihip. Firft, God is the ObjeEl of Adoration and Worjhip. All Men that have any Notion or Knowledge ofa divine Being, acknowledge that that divine Be-ing is to be worfhipped. The Light of Nature taught the Gentiles, thatthe Worfhip and Adoration they paid to any Be-ing was upon the account of its Divinity, offome divine Spirit redding in that Being, for thatnothing but a divine Nature was worthy or capa-ble of Adoration. And, as human Nature cannot be conceived with-out the innate Notion of a Deity, fo that innateNotion taught Men that that Deity was to beworfhipped. This is that htdta
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