THE SCRIPTURES AND THE ARIANS COMPARED IN THEIR ACCOUNTS OF GOD THE FATHER AND GOD THE SON: BY WAY OF REJOINDER TO A PAMPHLET, ENTITLED, THE SCRIPTURE AND THE ATHANASIANS COMPARED, &c. IN TWO PARTS. Let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined. Psalm x. 2. THE SCRIPTURES AND THE ARIANS COMPARED, &c. PART I. I SHALL lay before the reader the plain account of Scripture in one column, and the true account of what the modern Arian scheme is in the other: which I will endeavour to make as plain as any thing of that nature can be; and leave the reader to judge whether it be agreeable to Scripture or no, and so choose or refuse it after a rational and faithful examination. to anotherd; that is, will not allow any other God to claim the glory of being adored, either against him, or with him; being extremely jealouse of his hononr, the honour of being served with religious worship, which both under the Old and New Testament was due to God alone f, the other in duration", and in every perfection. The greater GoD has given the glory of religious worship to the lesser GOD; thereby, so far, resigning up his peculiar privilege, and his appropriate honours only the glory of being underived, which he cannot possibly give away if he would, he will notc and by which his superlative (good reason why) part with at MAJESTY and peerless perfections are to be acknowledged through the whole creation. SCRIPTURE. Our Lord JESUS CHRIST is LORD GOD, Jehovah', (a title expressing necessary existence d Isa. xlii. 8. xlviii. 11. e Exod. xx. 5. xxxiv. 14. f Matth. iv. 10. Rev. xix. 10. xxii. 9. 5 2 Kings xix. 15. Isa. xl. 9, 10, &c. xlv. 5, 6, 7. Jer. x. 10, 11, &c. h Luke i. 16, 17. John xx. 28. i Compare Isa. vi. with John xii. 41. Zech. xii. 10. with John xix. 37. Psalm cii. 25. with Heb. i. 10. Zech. xi. 12. with Matt. xxvii. 9, 10. Isa. xl. 3. with Mark i. 3. Hosea i. 7. with Luke ii. 11. any rate. The sacrifice of prayer and praise, however, is common to both the GoDs; who are accordingly to be honoured with the like outward acts of worship, to be made higher or lower worship by the worshipper's inward intention; and there are no outward acts left whereby common Christians may visibly distinguish the supreme GoD from the inferior GOD; though one be infinitely more excellent than the other; and though reason itself teaches that there ought to be as great a difference between the outward honours paid to this GOD, and that GOD, as there is between this GoD and that GOD. ARIANISM. Our Lord Jesus Christ is by no means necessarily existing, but precarious in existence, and de b Mr. Whiston plainly; the rest covertly. c Modest Plea, &c. Continued, p. 7. Reply to Dr. Waterland's Defence, p. 201. d Modest Plea, &c. p. 17, 217. Second letter to Dr. Mangey, p. 27. |