DISCOURSE II. 557 pence for the sufferings of Christ in his human nature ? Does the godhead derive recompences from the sufferings of the man ? Orcan God be said thus to exalt the pure divine nature to be the object of adoration I Has the human nature of Christ no share in this reward ± Or is the human nature of Christ recom- pensed some other way, that is, by making a luminous figure in heaven, arrayed in bright ornaments above the clouds, or stars, but ignorant of the honours done him by the church on earth, while yet these veryhonours done him on earth are declared to be his appointed recompence ? How unreasonable and absurd is such asupposition. Itwill be objected here indeed, " How can any thing that is not pure God be made any part of the object ofreligious wor- ship ? Is not this contrary to the first command, and to the ge- neral law of worship in the Old and New Testament which di- rects it to be paid to Godonly ?" Answer. I think the human nature of Christ is no otherwise capable of religious worship, according to the statutes of hea- ven, but by being thus gloriously united to the divine : but when it is thus united, the whole complex person may be made the object of religiòus worship if God see fit, since the person who is worshipped is really one with God, and has personal communion with the divine nature : But for the further removal of these objections and all the difficulties of this kind, see my dissertation of the "Worship of Christ as God-man and Mediator," Dissertation III. proposition viii. ix. where I have not only proved it from scripture, but cited the testimony of some of our greatest writers to support it, such as Turretine and Dr. Owen. VIL " Christ as man, but in union with'God, is constituted judgeof theworld." This is often repeated in scripture ;' Acts xvii. 31. " God hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in righteousness by that mate whom he Lath ordained, whereof he bath given assurance unto all men, in that he ltatis raised him from the dead." This is part of St. Paul's sermon to the Athenians : and St. Peter in his sermon to Cornelius ; Acts x. 38, &c. says concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was anointed with the Holy Ghost, and whom God raised from the dead, he has commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he who was ordained of God to be the judge of the quick and the dead." It is he, even the man Jesus who lived at Nazareth, shall be the judge : It is the man Christ Je- sus, who " descends from heaven with a shout and with the sound of a trumpet, shall send his angels, and gather his elect from every quarter of the earth ;" he shall call to the dead, and they that are "in their graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God and live, for all judgment is committed to him,;
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