268 THE ARIAN INVITED TO ORTHODOX FAITH. 'affairs. And surely it is in such sort of human language that God in his word reveals to us the mysteries of salvation ; and our blessed Saviour in this manner, by parables drawn from earthly things, represents to us things heavenly. CONCLUSION. I shall conclude this discourse with a short recapitulation of it under the following queries, and a remark or two on the com- mon sense of the Arians and the Trinitarians. about the worship of Christ. Query I. Is it not the constant custom, both of scriptural and heathen writers, to give the name of 'Gon to every thing that is made the object of religious worship, whether it be supe- rior or inferior, whether it be one or many ? II. Is it not ex- pressly forbidden in the first command to have any other god or gods, besides Jehovah the God of Israel, that is, to receive or admit any other object of religious worship ? III. Does not this command seem to be of everlasting continuance, by the repe- tition and establishment of it under the New Testament, as well as by the peculiar and repeated solemnities of its sanction under the Old ? IV. Is not our blessed .Saviour called God several times in the New Testament, and is he not also representedas a :proper object of worship, both in precept and example ? V. Does it not therefore appear.a_.mestnatural consequence, that he is the true God ? Or that Jesus Christ has such an union and 'communion with Jehovah the God of Israel, as to be called by the same names in their sublime sense, and to receive religious worship accordingly?VI. Are there not some expressions in the New Testament, where Christ seems to be exalted and ad- vanced to receive religious worship, as a gift from God the Father, and sometimes as a reward of the sufferings of his human nature ?VII. Does not his human nature itself, accord- ing to the language of scripture, seem to be the more immediate object of this exaltation and reward, and to be admitted so far into a share of these honours as it is capable of receivingthem ? VIII. May not this difficulty be solved, by supposing the man Jesus, by his most intimate union to, or oneness with Jehovah, or the God of Israel, to become one person with him, and thereby become a part of the object of religious worship, from which all other creatures are for ever excluded, because they have not this privilege of personal union with the divine nature ? THE REMARKS ARE THESE. The doctrine of religious worship paid to the man Jesus, is acknowledged by the Arians, and accountedfor by the appellant, by supposing him to be exalted by the appointment of God the Father to this honour, though in truth he be only a creature or a
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