>· . j tl;e Nature a1~d Caufes ofit. I '~'3 Perfon ofehrift is of no ufe at all. A vain Imagination, and fuch as is defiruchve unto the whole real entercourfe be– tween God and man, by the one and only Mediator. The refpefrwhich we have in all arts of Religion unto the Perfon of Chrifi_may be reduced unto thefe tour Heads; (r.) Honour. (2.) Obeclience. (j.) Conformity. (4) The ufe we make of him,±or the attaining and rec~ivingof all Gofpel Priviledges, all Grace and Glory And hereunto the whole of pur Reltgion as it is Chriflianor Evangelical may be reduced. I. The Perj0.11 ofChri}f i5 the O/;jefl of Divine Honour · and Worfoif' . The formal ObjeCt and Reafon 4ereofis the Di– vine Nature, and its .e.f{ential i1ifjnite Excellencies. For they are nothing but that Refpeet unto the Divine Being, which is due unto it from all rational creatures regulated by Revela– tion, and enforced by Divine Operations. Wherefore the Perfon of Chrift is primarily the ObjeCt of Divine Honour andWorfhip, upon the account of his 'Divine Nature and Ex– cellencies. And thofe who denying that Nature in him, do yet pretend to Worfoip him with Divine and Religious Adora· tion, do but Worf11ip a Golden Calf of their own fetting up; for a Chrifi: who is not o·ver all , Gocl E lefled for ever, is not better And it implies a contradietion,that a~yCreature f110uld on any account, be the immediate proper ObjeCt of Divine Woriliip; unleis the Divine Effential Excellencies be commu– cated unto it, or transfufed into it, whereby it would ceafe to be a Creature. For that Woril1ip is nothing but the A f criptionofDivine Excellenciesunto what is fo Worfhipped. But we now confider the Lord Chrifi, in his whole entire Perfon, the Son of God incarnate, God manifefl in theflefo His infinite Condefcenlion in the Affumption ofour Nature, did no way divefi: him of his Divine Effential Excellencies. For a time, they were iludowed and vailed thereby, from . the Eyes of me·n; when he made himfelf of no ReputaQ_ tion,_
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