2 66 An !Jumble Enquiry into the Infinite Wifdom ofGod and all facred Woril1ip. But in our prefent Rejlauration we are made fubjeft anew as ·unto Religious Service on[y unto God alone.Therefore the holyAng;els,the Head of theCreation, do openly difclaim any fuch fervice and veneration from us, becaufe they are only the .fellowfer·vants of them that have the Tefiimony of Jefus, Re·v. 19. 10. Nor hath God put the world to come, the Gofpel fiate of the Church into fubjefrion untoAngels or any other creature, but only unto the Son, who is Lord over his own houfe, even he that made all things, who is God, Heb. 3· 4, ), 6. Wherefore we are refrored into our primitive condition to be in fpiritual fubjeetion unto God a· lone. He therefore by whom .we are refl:ored, unto whom - ~e owe all Obedience and Religious fervice, is, and ought to - be Godalfo. And as they utterly overthrow the Gofpel who af– :firin that all the Obedience ofit is due unto himwho is a man . \ and no more, as do all by whom the Divine Nature of Chrift is denied; fo they debafe themfelves beneath the dignity of the ftate ofRedemption, and cafi dill10nour on the Mediation ofChrift, who fubjett themfelves in any Religious fervice toSaints or Angels, or any othercreatures whatever. On thefe fuppofitions which are full ofLight and Evidence, infiniteWif domdid interpofe it felf, to glorify all the other con-- · cerned Excellencies of the Glory of God, in fuch a way as might folve all difficulties, . and fatisfy all the Ends of Gods Glory, in the Recovery and RedemptionofMankind. The cafe before it was as followeth . Man by fin had caft the mofi inconcei·veaMe difoonour 0n the Righteoufnefs, Holinefs, Goodnefs and Rule ofGod,and .him· felfinto the guilt of eternal Ruin.In this fiite it became theWif· dom&Goodnefs ofGod,neither to fuffer t bewhole race ofMan– kind to come fhort eternally o.f that enjoyment of himfelf for which it was created,nor yet to deliver a~yone of them,without a retrival ofthe eternal Honour ofhis Righteoufnefs, Holinefs · and
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