Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... support such an objection ? Nothing more was necessary to constitute Seth a human person, than being the Son of a human person. And if God be a Divine Person, his own Son must be a Divine Person. According to every analogy in nature, to affirm that Jesus Christ is God's own Son implies that he is a Person Truly Divine. *} DEGREES-> LETTER VII. Divine Honours due to the Son Of God. REV. SIR, That the Son of God is to be regarded as an object of Divine Honours, is so plain from the Scriptures, that it seems extraordinary that it should ever have been denied by any one who has admitted the Bible as a rule of faith and practice. --In support of the idea, we may note several things-- 1. We have express declarations of the will of God. " The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment to the Son, that all men should Honour the Son even as they honour the Father." This is a sufficient warrant for men to give Divine Honours to the Son of God. Angels have their warrant also; for " When he bringeth in his Only Begotten into the world, he saith, Let all the angels of God Worship Him."--And we have another passage which amounts to a warrant both for men and angels: " Wherefore God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name, that at the Name Of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth," 2. We have the example of saints on earth and saints in heaven. In respect to saints on earth, we not only have many individual instances recorded, but the great body of Christians in the apostolick age were characterized as. " those who call on the name of the Lord Jesus." That both angels and saints in glory pay Divine honours to the Son of God, is represented by John in the...
