276 A R 1VI, HAND, A N D his People may gratefully adore Him. Some of them did worfhip Him, unrebuked, in the Days of his Flefh ; which certainly He, who anfwered the Devil by faying, `Thou (halt worfhip the LORD thy GOD and hint only(halt thou ferve, would never have fuffered ; if he had not been that fame Lama and GOD, who had this Right of Adoration. But fuch is the Blindnefs of unfta- hie Men, that the plaineft Texts cannot fatisfy them, when under the Power of their own Infatuation. Such Perfons might well confider, if the Offer of faife Praife deferve Wrath, as in the Cafe of Idolaters ; what may they expecft, who aim to rob GOD's coequal Son of the Honors due to his Nature, his Work, and his Word ? Ifthe Man be pronounced accurfed, that maketh Flefh bis Arm* (as they mull do, who talk of Chrift as a human Saviour) ; what will become of the Man, who traduces the A aMof JEHovAH, and thinks him to be altogether fuch an one as himfelf ? -f- The real Believer hath not thus learned Chrifi. In a dôlirinal View, he hath been taught by the Spirit and Word of GOD, that nothing, {port of Omnipotence it- felf, could poflibly have atchieved fuch mighty Works, as were neceffary to complete his Saly ition. He clearly fees, that eternal Life could not have been purchafed but by eternal Merit, nor brought in with fo much Ex- a&nefs and Certainty, but by a Being, in his own Na- ture, omnipotent and fupreme ; And that, as infinite Effe&s, prefuppofe an infinite Caufe, the Redemption and GlorificationofMan, being in themfelves perpetual and above the Agency of Creatures, refult only from 7efur Chrift, as he is GODover all, blefped for ever. In an experimental View, the Chriftian hath other To- kens of his Saviour's Omnipotent Arm. He hath ex- perienced a Tranflation from the Kingdom and Do- minion of Satan into the Kingdom of GOD's dear Son ; and he daily finds a Refcue from his inward or his outward Foes. TheChriftian is born again to be Jer. xvii. 5. t Pfalm I. zt. a Con-
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