14 The Perfon of Chrift tl;e moft Ineffable notionally or l"racHcally, either ignorantly or defign~dly, God knows, I know not, endeavour to weaken th.e Faith of the Church in its adherence unto this Foundation. Howbeit · neither the one fort nor the other have any · place in my thoug]1ts in comparifon of the Inllrucrion and Edification of others, who love the Lord Jefus Chrift in finceri~y. . "' CHAP. Ill. \ The Perfon of Chrij} the »?ofl JneffaUe EJfefl ofVivirte TJ!i.f dom andGoodnefs. 1he~ce the next caufe of all true Reli– . g,zon. In what fenfe it is fo. THE Perfon ofChrifl .is the· mofl Gioriour and .fneffaUe Effec1 ofVi·vine Wtjdom, Grace ant! Power, and tl)ere– fore is the next Foundation! of all acceptable Religion and Woril1ip. The D~vine Being, itfelfis the firfr formal 1;\eafon, Foundation .and Object of all Religion. It all depends, on taking God to be our God, which is the fidl: of his Corn-: mands. For Religion and the Woril1ip pe~formed in it, is nothing but the due refpefr of rational creatures,unto the Di– vine Nature, and its .infinite Excellencies. .. It. is the glorifY: ing, ofGod as God, the way of expreffing that refpeet, being regulated by the Revelation of his·Will._ Yet the 7Jh;i 11 e ~ffence is not in it felf the next and immediate caufe of Re• ligious Woriliip. But it is the man.ifeflation of this Being and its Excellencies wherewith the mind of rational creatures is immediately affected, and whereby it is obliged , to give · that Religious Honour and Woril1ip which is due unto that Being, and neceffary from our Relation thereunto. Upon this manifdl:ation all creatures capable by an intelligent nature of a fenfe th~reo±~ are indifpenfibly obliged to give all Divin~ Honour and Glory to God. The
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