200 THE ARIAN INVITED TO ORTHODOX FAITH. united to flesh and blood, then it makes one complex person, and thus it is seen, it is heard, it is handled : So the man Jesus beingunited to godhead makes one complex person, and thus receives its share of honour in the worship paid to the person of Christ. Vet still the foundation of religious worship lies only - in the godhead, to which the man Jesus is united, even as tiie foundation of corporeal attributes, seeing, hearing, handling, lies only in flesh and blood ; to which the " logos" or divine Word is united. But there is another example or similitude which perhaps comes nearer to the subject, and, 1 think, makes it evident be- yond exception, how the divinity of Christ may be the only foundation of religious worship, and yet the man Jesus may be assumed into akind of partnership. Let us survey and compare it in these several successive views : 1. Suppose a human spirit, in the world of separate spirits, had some intellectual excellen- cies above its fellow-spirits, it might receive human honours, upon this, account : So was the godhead of. Jesus Christ supreme. in the invisible world, and received religious honours. 2. Sup- pose this excellent human spirit assumed a beautiful and graceful body into union with itself, then this whole human person might not only receive human honours upon the account of its intellec- tual excellencies, but it might receive addresses of human honour, because of its beauty and graceful figure or motion : So the god- head of Christ having assumed the man Jesus into union with itself, this whole person might not onlyreceive religious honours upon the account of its divine perfections, but also on account of the characters, graces, obedience, and sufferings of the man Jesus. Such honours are frequently paid toChrist in scripture. And yet further, as some of the particular forms of address made to this supposed whole human person, may be derived from some special properties, or graceful motions of the body ; so some of the particular forms of address made to the whole person of Christ, are derived from the actions and sufferings of bis manhood. The scriptural examples of worshippaid to Christ manifest this. 3. The gestures of human honour, such as bow- ing the head or the knee, together with the acclamations or songs of human praise which are paid to this supposed human person, may be seen and heard with agreeable sensations by the human body as an animal, as wellas noticed and accepted by the human spirit unitedto it : So the religious honours which are paid. to Christ maybe seen and heard, or known and observed by the man Jesus with special satisfaction, as well as they are noticed and accepted by the indwelling godhead united to him. 4. Yet thebeautiful and graceful body considered apartfrom the human . soul, is not capable of human honours, even as the man Jesus apart from the deity is not capable, according to scripture, of
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