the new name of the Son, our Lord fays, "I will write upon him the name of my God," Rev. iii. 12. CXXXVIII. The angel who fpoke to John, and fignified to him those things which he was fent by Jefus Chrift to reveal to his fervant John, Rev. i. 1, teftifies as follows, "the Lord God of the holy prophets fent his angel to fhew unto his fervants the things which muft fhortly be done," Rev. xxii. 6. And our Saviour immediately after, fpeaking of this very angel, which has faid that he was fent by, and has called himself the angel of, the Lord, declares, “I Jefus have fent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches," Rev. xxii. 16. Jefus Chrift, who fent his angel, which was fent by the Lord God, is therefore one with the Father, the Lord God. CXXXIX. Such farther evidence as I mean to produce from the holy fcriptures, to prove the Godhead of our gracious Redeemer, I fhall referve till I come to confider and confute the arguments by which Mr. Lindsey has endeavoured to depofe him from the throne of his glory: and as I closed the apoftolical teftimony of our Saviour's divinity, by fhewing that the appointed witneffes of Jefus Chrift had brought God himself to speak the fact, and to pronounce that he who had been flain, and had taken that body, by the blood of which we are cleansed, into heaven, there for ever to remain, is one with himfelf, "God Almighty, whose throne endureth for ever and ever, and the fceptre of whofe kingdom is a fceptre of righteousness;" fo I fhall conclude this chapter by bringing together thofe doxologies with which all things both in heaven and in earth have glorified the Son of man; and if by thefe alfo, the kingdom, and the power, and the glory be ascribed to him, who, of ranfomed mankind, admitted to fellowship with him, can then refuse to "magnify "" 66 "magnify the name of the Lord Jefus," and to unite his voice with "ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands of angels, who reft not day and night, faying, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and which is, and which is to come," "worthy art thou, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power *, worthy is the Lamb that was flain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and ftrength, and honour, and glory, and blessing + ;"" and with every creature which is in heaven and in earth, and under the earth, and fuch as are in the fea, and all that are in them, faying, Bleffing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that fitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. Amen ‡; "Salvation to our God which fitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb §," "which is in the midft of the throne || ?" For fuch is the fong of angels, and of every creature "created by him, and for him **;" fuch are the grateful hymns of those who are redeemed by the blood of the "flaughtered Lamb tt," which have come out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb," and who "therefore are before the throne of God, and serve him night and day in his temple," "a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes ." To thefe the glorious company of the apostles have added their praife, faying, "To the King of kings, and Lord of lords §§," "who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen, nor can see, be honour and power everlasting. Amen ;" "To our Lord Rev. v. 13. ++ Ifai. liii. 7. ||| 1 Tim. vi. 15, 16. Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift be glory both now and for ever. Amen *:"" to whom be praife and dominion both now and for ever. Amen +." "Wherefore feeing we also are compassed about with fo great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay afide every weight, and the fin which doth so easily befet us, and let us run with patience the race that is fet before us, looking unto Jefus, the author and finisher of our faith, who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despifing the fhame," which was undergone for our redemption; and let us" with every tongue confefs that Jefus Chrift is Lord; with every knee, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, bow our knee alfo at the name of Jefus §;" and knowing that the fame Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him, let us also call upon the name of the Lord, and be faved; and to him that fitteth on the throne, and the Lamb, one God, the Father and the Son, with the whole hoft of heaven and earth, and all created beings, join in afcribing "bleffing and honour, and glory, and power. Amen,' 2 Pet. ii. 18. † Pet. iv. 11. CHAP. Heb. xii. 1. § Phil. ii. 18. Controverted Evidence of our Saviour's Divinity established.-Objections anfwered.—The Divinity of the Holy Ghost proved from the Scriptures. "REligious Eligious worship," fays Mr. Lindfey, "is the incommunicable honour and prerogative of God alone," Apology, p. 137. Among the multitudinous proofs which I have already given of our Lord's divinity, I have produced many inftances of prayer, of praise, and thanksgiving, preferred to him both in earth and in heaven; by angels and thofe who have already become partakers of the benefits of his paffion in heaven; and in earth, by men filled with the Comforter, the holy Spirit of truth, to whom "the teftimony of Jefus" was given. These I look upon to be acts of religious worship: But this honour and prerogative of God alone is afcribed to Jefus Chrift; it is incommunicable, and muft therefore perfectly and essentially distinguish the poffeflour; but Jefus Chrift is the pofleffour; Jefus Chrift is therefore one with the Father, that God alone, whofe incommunicable honour and prerogative it is to be the object of our religious worship and adoration. Mr. Lindsey is so exceedingly anxious to emancipate himself from the fervice of Jefus Chrift, whofe fervant and prifoner Paul declares it is his joy and glory to be; he bends fo reluctantly under the eafy yoke, the light burden of the gofpel; he fo boifteroufly dafhes about the bonds of peace, and fo fretfully endeavours to caft the cords from him; and with fuch a foaming hydrophobia flies from the fountains of living waters," that he has really become a very melancholy spectacle, and thereB b 2 * Rev. xix. 10. forc " fore I feel it a duty incumbent upon me to force, as ftrongly as I can, this conviction upon him, that if he will drink of these waters, they will refresh him, and he fhall not thirft again; that if he return to Chrift, the great fhepherd and bishop of our fouls, however forrowful and heavily laden he may be, he shall find reft to his foul; that if he knock, Chrift fhall open; and, that "if he ask any thing according to his will, the Son of God will hear him, and he fhall have the petition that he defired of him *." Let me therefore now, prefuming that Christ at hand is not different from Christ afar off; and that no merits can put any created being into poffeffion of the incommunicable prerogatives of God, or render inferiour natures worthy of the honour which belongs to God alone, recapitulate, and once again present him with an inftance of each; of prayer, by that of Stephen, "Lord Jefus receive my fpirit," "Lord, lay not this fin to their charge." Of praife, by that in the Revelation, "Bleffing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that fitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever;""falvation to our God which fitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb." And of thanksgiving, by that of St. of Paul, "I thank Chrift Jefus our Lord, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry." There is yet another fpecies of religious worship, which I have intentionally omitted to take notice of in its courfe; it is Benediction; and my reason for deferfing to obferve upon it, is, that it demanded a separate confideration, on account of Mr. Lindfey's doctrine concerning it. He denies benediction to be any evidence at all; and, till I had established its competency, it is therefore eafy to fee I should have produced it out of its place before. Mr. Lindsey's affertion, Apology, p. 131, * 1 John v. 14. |