DISSERTATION HI. 257 entitled to the religious houour. I am so farfrom being singular in this sentiment, that it might be easily shewn to be the opinion of a great part of our protestant writers. The name of Turret- tine is well known in the learned world : In his "Institutions of Theology," Place xiv. question 18. section 10. he determines " the human nature of Christ to be the inseparable adjunct of the divine nature in the matter of adoration, and that it is adored together with the Word. And in section 12. he allows the whole Mediator or God-man to be adored, though the human nature be not the formal and terminative object of worship. Section 14. Adoration does not more confound the twonatures of Christ, and the honour dueto them, than faith does ; for as it regards Christ, both God and min, distinctly in one person, so it attri- butes to hjm accordingto both natures that which belongs to him. Section 15. Though the human nature or flesh of Christ is not adored by itself, or for itself, yet it is truly said to be adored in the Word, with whom it is personally united. And in sec- tion I1. Though it is the Deity alone that makes the person of God-man adorable, yet Christ as Mediator must be adored, and various motives to worship him are drawn from his Mediation," Dr. Owen is of the same mind. See his "Treatise of the Person of Christ," page. 152. " His divinenature is the pro- per formal object of our faith, but the entire person as God and man is the immediate object of it. Webelieve in him because he is God ; but we believe in him as he is God and man in one person. All of Christ is considered and glorified in this acting of faith on him, and the benefits of his mediation are the spe- cial motives thereunto. Page322. Thehuman nature of Christ in his divine person, and together with it, is the object of all divine adoration and worship. Rev. v. 13. All creatures what- ever do for ever ascribe blessing, honour, glory, and power unto the Lamb, in the saine manner as unto him who sits upon the throne, But no other creature either is, or ever can be ex- alted into such a condition of glory, as to be the object of 'any divine worship. I must Confess there are some few writers that imagine it is the pure godhead of Christ alone is the single ob- ject of worship ; and they are afraid to allow the united human naturetobe considered as a partof the complexperson worshipped, lest worship should seem to be given to any thing that is not God. I must own, that in treating matters so sublime we ought to be well upon our guard, lest while we would pay just honour to the man Jesus, we should take away some of the just preroga- tives of his godhead : But on the other hand, we must learn what worship we ought to pay to Christ from the scripture itself, since it is a matter of pure revelation ; and I should not readily allow the man Jesus to be taken into the complex object of wor- Vot. vr, R,
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