Owen - Houston-Packer Collection BT300 .O9 1679

The Preface. the name ofany Divine Perfon, or enumerate at once each Perfon ( cJ 'Tefdt; a.'yla.de;.9f-t'dfLevn, 'TeJ.d) ~~~ ~ ~~: ovdJLa.'Tl de;e{h~(Ael'n, Epiphan. Ancorat. 8. 2 2 .) it doth not (ollo\V that vve may make a Requeft in our Prayers unto one .Perfon, and then immediately repeat it unto another: For it would . thence follo\V, that th.e Perfon unto . whom \Ve make that R.equefl: in the fecond place, ~ \Vas not invocated, not called on, not equally adored. with him, who was fo called on in the firft place, al– though the Divine Nature is the object of all religious Invocation, which is the fame in each Perfon. Wherefore in our Div.ine Invocation \Ve may name and fix: our thoughts diil:inttly on any Perfon according as our fouls are affetted with the di1hntl: oper~itions of each Perfon in Grace to\vards us. For what concerns in the third place, the Afcription of Divine Honour .in Adoration and Invocation unto the Perfon of Chrifi:; it ·is that which they principally contended for, and argued from in all their Writings ~gainfl: the Ariam. . Evidences of Infinite Wifdom in the conftitution of the ·Perfon of Chrifi:, and rational Difcoveries of the condecencies therein · unto the exal~ation of all the other glorious Properties of the Divine Nature, ~realfo treated of. .Herein we confider the Incarnation of ~he Son of God with refpett unto the Recovery and . Salvation of the Church alone. S01ne have contended F that

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