~/;e Nature andCaufes ofit. mal Reafon and ObjeB: of Divine Worfhip. For it confifis in an Afcription of infinitely Divine Excellencies and Proper– ties unto him whom we fo worfhip. And to do this on any account but of the Divine Nature, is in it felf a contradi– ction, and in them that do it Idolatry. Had the .Soq of God never been Incarnate, he had .been the Objeer of all Divine Worihip. And could there have been a Mediator between God and us, who was not God alio, he could never have been the ObjeB: of any D1vine Worfl1ip or Invocation.;: Wherefore Chri:fl: the Mediator God and Man in one Perfon, is in all things to be honoured even as we honour the Fa– ther; but it IS as he is God equal with the Father, and not as . Mediator, in which refpecr he is inferiour unto him. - With refpecr unto his D1vine Perfon we ask immediately Y of himfelf in our fupplications ; as he is .Mediator we ask of the Father in his Name. The different Acrings of Faith, on him, under the fame dillincrion, fhall be declarechn the next Chapter. . . ' • 1 Cr-u.p~ .
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