( 16 HN~our due to tl;e Perfon of Chrifl ; This Adoration is due continually to thePerfon of Chrin:, and that as in the exercife ofthe Office of Mediation. It is .due unto him from the whole rational Creation ofGod. So is it given in charge unto the Angels above. For when he - brought the firfl: begotten in the world, he faid, r.e.fr.nwvn– mrn,Jrnu' wm.J' '7mVT~5 dyytfl.ot e~~, . (that is j1, i1.nt!m l:.."';j ' i1'N t,::1 ~?, n·orjhip him all ye Gods, Pfal. 97· 7• Let all t he A ngels of G'o.d worjhip him, adore him, bow down be– fore him, He/;. I. 6. Seeour Expofition of that place; the - defign of the whole Chapter being to exprefs the Divine Ho· nour that is due unto the Perfon ofChrifi, with the Grounds thereof This is the command given alfo unto the Church. He is thy Lord, and worjhip thou him, Pjal 4)· I I. AgloriousReprefentation hereof, whether in the Church above, or in that militant here on the Earth, is given us, Rev. · 5· ·v. 6, 7, 8, 9, ro, I I, I2, I j, I4And I beheld and lo, in the midjl of the Throne, andof that four living, Creatures, and in the midjl of the Elders, jlood a l am/; as it had been f/.ain, havinr,Jeven Horns andjeven Eyes,which are thefeven Spirits ofGodfent forth into all theEarth. Andhe came andtook the Book out ofthe right hand of him that fate upon the Throne. A'f.td when he hadtaken th Book, the four Eeafls andfour and twenty El- · ders fell clown before the Lamb, having, eve1J 1 one of them harps, andgolden vails full of odours, which are the Prq_H'rs of Saints. And they fung, a newj(mg,,faying, Thou· art worth~ to take the Book, a-nd_to open the Jeals there~!; for thou waft f/.ain,and haft redeemed us unto God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, andpeople, andnation. And h.. 1jl made us unto our God Kings andPriefls, and we foal! reign on the Earth. And I be– held, and I heard the voice of many Angels round about the TJ;rone, andthe Beq/fs, and the Elders, andthe numberofthem was ten thoufand times ten thoufond, a11d thoufands of thoufands. Sq)'ing with a loud voice, worth) is the lamb ihat wasjlain, tp receive
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