1 r 6 Honour due to the Perfon of C!Jrift; Rom. I. 2), ?-5'· This is one kind of Idolatry, as the other - is, the afcribing unto creatures, any thing that is proper and peculiar unto God, any Divine Excellency. And we do not honour God the Father with one kind of honour, and the Son with another. That were not to Honour the Son ?ux8cv\ as we honour the -Father, but in a way infinitely different from it. (2.) In the fame manner, with the fame Faith, Love Reverence and Obedience, alwaies, in all things, in all Afr~ and Duties of Religion whatever. This diflintlHonour is to be given unto the Perfon the Son by vertue ofthis command of the Father, though originally on the Account of his Onenefs in Nature with the Father.And our Duty herein is preifed with the ·higheil: Enforcement ; he that honours not the Son, honours not the Father. He wh() denieth the Son (herein)hath not the Father ; 6ut he that ac– knowledgeth the Son hath the Father alfo, r }oh.2. 2 5· For this is the record, that God hath given unto us eternal life, and this life is in the Son. He that hath the Son, hath life, -and he that hath not the Sm hath not life ; chap. ) .. I I, 12. Ifwe are wanting herein;whatever we pretend we do not woril1ip nor honour God at all. And there is Reafon to give this caution ; Reafon to fear that this great fundamental Principal ofour Religion, is;_ ifnot disbelieved, yet not much attended unto in the World.. · Many who profefs a refpefr unto the Divine Being, and· the wor– fhip thereof, feem to have little regard unto thp Perfon of the Son in all their Religion. For although the ?Jnay admit of a cufiomary Interpofition ofhis name in . ·ir Religious '\Vorfhip; yet the fame difrinfr veneration of him as ofthe Fa– ther, they feem not to underfrand, or to·be exercifed in: Howbeit all the Acceptance of our Perfons and Duties with God~ depe11d on this one condition, .that we honour the Son, t7J.en as we honour the Father. To honour the Son as we ought tO·
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