244 THE ARIAN INVITED TO ORTHODOX FAITH. see his glory; verse 7. cofounded be they that boast themselves of idols : Worship him all ye gods, or angels : Which verse is applied to Christ; Deb. i. 6. .So I's. cii. 15. where the king- dom of the Messiah is foretold; the Gentiles shall fear the name of the Lord; verse 22. The people are gathered together, and the kingdoms to serve the Lord; verses 24, 25. Thou hast laid the foundations of the earth, &c. which is alsoapplied to Christ; fhb. i. 10. So Ps. xlv. 6. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and aver ; verse 11. He is thy Lord, and worship thou him; which is also applied to Christ in the same place. So again ; Is. viii. 13, 14. Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself, and let him be your fear anddread, and he shall' be for a sanctuary ; but for a stone of sturnbling, and a rock of ofence; which compared with Is. xxviii. 16. 1 Pet. ii. 6, 7. Rom. ix. 33. Mat. xxi. 44, &c. chew that this is spoken of the Messiah : And several other scriptures might be cited to the same purpose. So that still it seems to be the indwelling or united godhead, which is worship- ped in the Messiah, and which gives the Messiah, in his complex person, a right to religious worship, as we shall seehereafter. III. Our blessed Saviour, in the beginning of his ministry, was tempted by the devil, to fall down and worship him upon which occasion our Lord confirms the first commandment, and repeats and cites the words of the Mosaic law. Mat. iv. 10. It is written, thou' shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve ; Dent. vi. 13. and x. 20. And it is worthy our observation, what Doctor Waterland remarks here, that '" the reason which Christ gives for refusing to worship him, is not that he was a bad spirit, an enemy to God, or that God had not commanded it, but because none are to be worshipped but God only. It may be objected here, That our Saviour only means to appropriate supreme worship to God the Father, but he does not exclude himself, nor any other inferior being, from an inferior and subordinate worship, proper for subordinate beings, and that therefore subordinate worship may be paid to one who is not the true and eternal God. I answer, that as all inferior and subordinate * worship, of any mere inferior or subordinate beings, is acknowledged to be excluded under the Old Testament, by the Mosaic law, so our Saviour's citation and repetition of it there, does most expressly and directly exclude mere creatures from subordinate worship * When I speak of supreme and subordinate worship in this place, I would be understoodwith respect to the proper foundation of worship, and not with regard to the modes of worship, the motives, designs, or particular forms of address ; for in the ninth proposition I have shown, that these may possibly be mediate or subordinate even when God is worshipped under some subordinate character, though the foundation of worship is always supreme or proper disc- city ; and thither I refer the reader. See pages 441-452,
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