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 jealous 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, and by which his superlative MAJESTY and peerless perfections are to be acknowledged through the whole creation.

SCRIPTURE.

Our Lord JESUS CHRIST is LORD GODh, 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 Ľuke ii. 11.

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 (good reason why) part with at and praise, however, is common to any rate. The sacrifice of prayer

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 Gon 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. 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.

and all perfectionk,) True GoD1, Great GoDm, and Mighty GOD", as well as the FATHER. He is moreover Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and the Lasto, which is expressive of unlimited eternity, and so understood when applied to God the FATHER, or to the one God of Israel P. He

is also the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty, than which nothing higher or stronger can be said even of GOD the FATHER.

pending entirely on the good pleasure of the greater GOD; who being of course infinitely above him, can, consequently, whenever he pleases, make other Gods as great, or greater than he is. And though CHRIST be styled JEHOVAH, it means only that he is faithful to his promisese, or that he once personated the true JEHOVAH; which any inferior angel might have doneɛ. And though he be a great GOD, and a true God, and a mighty GOD; yet there is another GOD, a greater GOD, a truer GOD, and a mightier GOD, by far, than he; to whose good pleasure and free appointment he owes all his greatness and divinity. And though the title of First and Last, &c. may signify an unlimited eternity, when appliedto the FATHER, (if the FATHER's eternity be any where revealed in the Old Testament, which is doubtfuli,) yet it must not, it shall not signify any such thing when applied to the SON. And though Rev. i. 8. has been understood by all the primitive churches of GOD the SON, and such application be favoured by the context; yet it shall be understood of the FATHER only; or, at least, shall bear a subordinate sense, if understood of the SoN. For there are several metaphysical reasons about derived and underived, about generation, causes, acts, will, indi

e Collection of Queries, p. 19. f The Scripture and Athanasians Compared, p. 5. Appeal to a Turk, &c. p. 89. Reply to Dr. Waterland's Defence, p. 177. h Unity of GOD not Inconsistent, &c. p. 34. i Collection of Queries, p. 50.

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