DISSERTATION III. 253 is a thing utterly forbidden, and yet if the angel of the covenant was worshipped, I cannot account for it any other way, but by supposing the angel who said I am Jehovah, was really Jeho- vah, the only true God, or had the fulness ofthe godhead ("web, ling in him ; he was God manifest in the burning bush, God manifest in the Shechinah, before he was God manifest in the flesh. There is a third objection which they bring against the doc- trine of the worship of Christ, founded on his true and eternal godhead, and it is this, that the scripture never recommends the worship of Christ upon this account, nor is there any one instance Where it appears that he was worshipped as the supreme God ; The scripture plainly puts it upon another foot, viz. because the, Father hath committed all judgment to him, therefore all men must honour him ; because God isatis highly exalted him, and given him a name above.every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee shouldbow, tkc. upon the account of his humiliation, and his obedience to death ; because Godhash commanded, ,say- ing, let all the angels of God worship him ; and that the Lamb is worthy to receive power and glory, 85.c. because he was slain and has redeemed us to God. Now if hisgodhead were the true foundation of religious worship, it is strange, say they, that this only foundation, this standing, and eternal ground of all that religious worship, which we are bound to give to Christ, should be so entirely overlooked in all the instances of it, and that the worship of him should be always put upon another foot. " Appeal," page 128, 129. Answer I. I think it is not strictly true that the godhead of Christ is never mentioned in scripture as the ground of his wor- ship; Ps. xlv. G. " Thy throne, OGod is for ever and ever. And verse 11. The Psalmist addresses the church thus, ". He is thy Lord, and worship thou him." His Godhead and his Lordship are both mentioned before the command of worship. See also Ps. xcvii. 1, &c. " Jehovah reigneth. let the earth rejoice ; the hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory. Con- founded beall they that serve graven images, worship him all ye gods." Now both these passages of scripture are applied to Christ; Heb. i. 6, 8. " Whenhe bringeth his first begotten into the world he sait), let all the angels of God worship him : And unto the Son be said), Thy throne, OGod is for ever and. ever." See more in Ps. cii. 15, 22, 24. Is. viii. 13, 14. &c. as before. Thus you see Christ is called Jehovah and God in those very places where his worship is required. That text in Phil. E. 9-11. where the human natureof Christ seems to be taken into the complex object of worship, as I shall shew afterward, that,
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