264 THE ARIAN INVITED TO ORTHODOX FAITH. supreme, that is, it admits no person to be theobject of it who is not God ; but there may be mediate or subordinate forms of worship paid to him that is true God, when in union with an infe- rior nature he condescends to take upon him the form or charac- ter of a Mediator. All the expressions of scripturewhich represent our coming to the Father by Jesus Cle>ist, or praying to the Father in his name, or giving thanks to God in the name of Jesus Christ, and offering the sacrifice of praise by him, that God in all things may be gloried through Jesus Christ. This language seems to signifymediate and subordinate worship, that is, religious honour paid to Jesus Christ as Mediator, in order to make us and our services acceptable to God the Father. And when the mail Christ Jesus is said to be exalted, that at the name of Jesus every khee should bow, and every longue confess, that Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father, it seems to imply this mediate or subordinateworship, that is, as to the special purpose and design of it, though at the saine time this very man Christ Jesus is united to the divine nature, and by that means ren- dered capable of being worshipped as part of the complex person God-man. There are two or three senses in which it may be said that Christ Jesus is worshipped to the glory of the Father. I. As God the Father, or the godhead subsisting in the person and character of the. Father, sustains the dignity of su- preme God and sovereign Lord and Governor in the economical kingdom, as he maintains the rights and majesty of the divine nature, and transacts all its affairs through his Son Jesus Christ as a divine medium ; in this sense, though the divine nature to which the man Jesus Christ is united be the same with that in the Father, yet as it subsists in the person and character of the Father, it assumes supremacy, and all things are done to its glory ; and all that the man Jesus does, or enjoys, is to the glory of theFather, though the same united godhead capacitates him for these actions, honours, or enjoyments. II. When Christ is worshipped, it is to the glory of the Father, because it is God the Father has appointed this unionof the man Jesus to the divine nature, whereby as a part of the complex person of the Mediator he is made the object of religious worship. And, III. As our addresses to Jesus Christ as Mediator, or God- man, are performed by us with this design, that we may glorify the person of God the Father, or the divine nature in the cha- racter of supreme majesty and godhead. Now that all this'may be done without injury to the sacred doctrine of God alone being the proper or fundamental object of worship, I shall attempt to explain by this similitude. Suppose
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