A Short and Easy Method with the Jews, Wherein the Certainty of the Christian Religion Is Demonstrated (Paperback)

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. 1812 Excerpt: ...it must be supposed, that he would not continue in it. But he that adores one God in three persons (supposing him mistaken in his judgment) comes not under either of the branches of idolatry. I, Of a false object. 2, Of a false manner of worship. For the manner, there is no pretence; that consists in the worship of God by images (which he has forbidden) whether artificial, of our own making, or natural, by any creature of God's making; as any of the host of heaven, sun, moon, or stars; or any thing here below, as of men, birds, beasts, fish, &c. though the worship be referred to God, as represented by them; or from his supposed residence or presence in them. This is idolatry in the manner of our worship. But nothing of this can be applied to the three Persons, which are supposed to be God himself. This was your idolatry in the golden calf, which you did not take to be God himself, that you yourselves had made; nor could such folly be supposed in your Solomon, as to think the images he made to be that God that made him. This was the idolatry forbidden in the second commandment. Then, for the first command, which relates to the object of worship. If that be taken for setting up any creature as the Supreme Being: or giving divine honour to angels, or other ministers of God, as inferior or middle deities, befwixt the Supreme Being and us, as the Heathens thought their daemons, whom therefore they called Dii Medioxumi: in neither of these senses can idolatry be applied to the three Persons supposed to be the Divine Nature. For lst, Theyare not creatures, nor 2dly, any inferior deities, nor so supposed to be; but all equally to partake of the same one Divine Nature; as the three faculties do of the same one and indivisible soul: and therefore whatever mistake m...