DISSERTATION III. 239 Exod. xx. 2. is this, Thou shalt have no other gods before me ; that is, no other objects of worship, upon which thou shalt have a religious dependence, or to which thou shalt pay religious honours. V. " Religious worship is attributed to our Lord Jestis Christ both in prophecy, in precept, andin example in scripture." Ps. xlv. 11. He is thy Lord, and worship thou him. Heb. i. 6. When he bringeth thefirst begotten into the world, he saith, let all theangels of God worship him. Rom. x. 13. Who- soever shall call upon the name of the Lord, that is, Christ, shall be saved. Rev. v. 13. Every creature which zs in hea- ven and earth, 8,c. heard I, saying, blessing, and, honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever.. Besides the account we have of the disciples, of Stephen the martyr, and of St. Paul, the last apostle, worshipping Christ, and praying to him : and theseveral doxologies that are paid to him, both in earth and in heaven, are sufficient proofs that religious worship is due to him ; nor do any of the modern Anti-trinitarians deny it. VI. " Thence we infer, that true godhead belongs to our Lord Jesus Christ ;" or that he has such communion in the god- head of the Father, such a oneness with the Father in the divine nature, as renders him justly capable of religious, or divine wor- ship : For if religious worship be a peculiar prerogative of the true God, and Jesus Christ has religious worship paid to him, he must also be the true God. Let us now consider what the objectors have to say in opposition to these three last proposi.- tions. The appellant and his brethren readily allow, that reli- gious worship is, and ought to be paid toour Lord Jesus Christ; he allows also, that during the days of the Old Testament reli- gious worship was absolutely forbidden to be given to any crea- ture. He seems hereby to allow what I have proposed as the meaning of the first command, viz. " That there should be no other, object of religious worship but the Lord Jehovah, the one God of Israel*." But then he will not allow the inference, " That therefore Jesus Christ is the true God :" For if God signifies anobject of worship, he supposes the first command is so far * That this is the true meaning of the first command, is evident from many Pisces of scripture; for wherevoever men set up any other object of worship, it is called in scripture la uuge, t' the setting up idols, or other gods, even though these idols were cooly designed tobe the objects of mediate or subordinate wor- ship; nay, though theywere only mediums of worshipping the true God ; so Je- roboam's cues are called other guide ; I Kings xiv. 9. 2Chroo. xiii. 8. Labao's imagea are called gods; Gen. xxxi. 30. which were probably the household gods of the family; Joshua xxiv. 2. Though by these Jeroboam, Nahor and Laban, might ultimately worship the true God.; as Gen. xxxi. 49, 53. Wnatevet was honoured with religious worship, lo scripture sense is called God, and therefore in scripture language every thing but Jehovah, or the true and supreme Ged, is excluded from such worship by the first cot4mandmeot.
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