This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823. Excerpt: ... Query XVIL Whether, notwithstanding, worship and adoration be not equally due to Christ; and consequently, whether it must not follow, that he is the one God, and not (as the Arians suppose) a distinct inferior Being? YOU answer, that" equality of divine honour is never "attributed in Scripture to the Son with the Father;" and then, in proof of a matter of fact, you assign a reason of your own devising; "for then the Son would be abso"lutely equal with the Father, which is contrary to "Scripture and reason," (p. 94.) But why do you not keep close to the words of the Query, and to the point in question? Worship and adoration are my words; not divine honour, which is ambiguous, and leads us off from the argument in hand. Suppose it had been said sacrifice: would you answer thus? Equality of divine sacrifice is never attributed, &c. Do not you see the impropriety? Well, but, as it is, you must say, equality of divine worship is never attributed, &c. And then, pray tell me, what you mean by equality or inequality of worship; whether you mean longer or shorter prayers, more or less frequent addresses, or any thing else. Be that as it will, worship, religious worship, greater or smaller, longer or shorter, has the same import and significancy; and speaks the Person addressed to, to be divine: just as sacrifice, whether offered once a year only or once a day, or whether it were a lamb or only two young pigeons, carried the same acknowledgment with it of the divinity, sovereignty, and supremacy of the person to whom it was offered. Now, worship being, as hath been said, an acknowledgment of the true God, in opposition to all creatures whatever, which are by nature no gods; and being offered to the Father, not for the recognizing his personal properties, as he sta...