1,ROPOSITIO11i V1.7 123 lest you make you a graven image, or the likeness of 'any thing which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee; for the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God." Deut. vi. 13, 14, 15. " Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name : Ye shall not goafter other gods, the gods ofthepeople whichare round about you, for theLordthyGod is a jealous God amongyou, lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth." To the same purpose speaks Joshua, chapter xxiv. verse 19. Deut. xxxii. 10. 17. " They provoked him to jealousy withstrange gods, with abominations provoked they him to au- ger; they sacrificed to devils, not to God ; to. gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your father feared not." Verses 19, 20, 21. " When the Lord saw it he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons and his daughters : And he said, I will hidè my face from them ; they have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God ; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities." Such are the awful manifestations of God, in a way of jealousy, for his Own name and the dignityof his godhead. The heart of God is so much set upon it to exclude all rivals or competitors from any share in the prerogatives of god- head, that he borrows one of his names from his jealousy in this matter; Ex. xxxiv. 14. Thou shalt worship no other God; for the Lord whose name is jealous, is a jealous God. IIe declaressolemnly, that his honour should not be given to ano- ther ; nor will he bear that any thing should come near him, or to be likened to him in the gloryof his nature; Isa: xlii. 8. I am theLord; that is my name ; and my glory will I not give to another. Isa. xlvi. 9. -I am God, and there is none else; i, am God, and there is none like me. Isa. xl. 18. To whom will ye liken God, or what likeness will ye compare unto him 4 Verse 25. To whom will ye liken me, or shall I be equal ? saith the Holy One. And when he threatens his ven- geance against the worship of that which is not.God, he speaks in the fire and fury of his jealousy, as it is often expressed in the language of the prophets. PROP. VI.-God is also so kind andfaithful to his Creatures, as to tell them what are thesepeculiar and distinguishing Characters of Godhead, that they may not run into this Mistake and Guilt of ascribing them toany other. Though men of learning and retirement among the hea- thens, who have devoted themselves to the study of philosophy, have found out several of these peculiar characters of godhead ; and the light of reason, if well improved, is sufficient to teach all men so much ,of God, as to leave them without excuse; Roai. i, 19, 20, Yet in our fallen and degenerate state we are
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