. 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. n greatGlory. 1 But further, God is to be worfhipped by us hisCreatures for our own fakes, becaufe of the Benefitwhich redounds to us thereby; for when we con-fider our continual * Dependency, when we reflect * Culms dicitur Deo debitus, nam Deo dcbetur ille cultus a cre~atura rationali: Ratio additur, quia eft piimum rertim omniumpiincipium, a quo omnia dependent j pr
. 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. n greatGlory. 1 But further, God is to be worfhipped by us hisCreatures for our own fakes, becaufe of the Benefitwhich redounds to us thereby; for when we con-fider our continual * Dependency, when we reflect * Culms dicitur Deo debitus, nam Deo dcbetur ille cultus a cre~atura rationali: Ratio additur, quia eft piimum rertim omniumpiincipium, a quo omnia dependent j propter hanc igitur excel-lentiam debetur lilt cultus. Becani Sum, TheoU Schol. I, 81. p. 48 ?. on Chap. 2. The Objeff of Adoration. 17 on the many Streights and Difficulties, the conti-nual Wants and Exigences, and the many Dangerswe are continually exposd to, we have continualreafon to look up, and pray, as well for his gra-cious Aid, as we have to render him Praife andThankfgiving for Mercies already received, andfor the hope of thofe to come. For thefe Reafons God is to be adored, andmany more; but thefe I could but only name, asintroductory only to the principal Defign of thisDifcourfe. CHAP, 18 God alone the Chap. CHAP. III. God alone is the ObjeEi of our Adoration. Hat God is the Object of our Adorati-on, we have feen before, and why. Itremafns now that I /hew, That God isthis Object of Adoration alone, exclu-five of all other Beings whatever. Exod. 20. have no other Gods before me. Dent. vi. fink fear the Lord thy God7 and ferve him, andJhaltfwear by his name. Matth. iv. jhalt worjhip the Lord thy God7 and him onlypi alt thou ferve. From thefe, and abundant other Texts of Scrip-ture it is plain, that the worfhipping any otherbut God only, is Polytheifm or Idolatry ; for thatall Beings whatfoever are excluded from havingany Share in divine Worfhip : for to worfhip anyBeing, tho of the moft exalted Nature, that is notreally and truly God, is
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