Christ the Object of Religious Adoration; And Therefore, Very God (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: htar us, whatfoever we afk we know that " we have the petitions we defired of him." In another part of the epiftle, the fame precept is repeated, but the word God is ufed, inftead of the word Cbrift?" We have confi- " dence toward God, and whatfoever we afk, we receive of him." Can a man read thefe two pafTages, and doubt, for a (ingle moment, whether his Saviour be the God that heareth prayer ? The bleffed martyr Stephen, jufl before he expired, preferred the following prayer to his Saviour, " Lord Jefus, receive my fpirit." Can a departing foul be thus folemnly committed into the hands of any one, but of him, who is " the God of the fpirits of all flefh ?" Does not St. Stephen here wormip Chrifr, in the very lame manner, in which, a little before, Chrift himfelf had worshipped the Fa ther ? Where is the difference between, " Fa- " ther, into thy hands I commend my fpirit'.' ?and?" Lord Jefus, receive my fpirit ?" Does not the martyr likewifc addrefs Chriir, as the perfon who could forgive fins ? Where is the difference, again, between--" Father, " forgive them, for they know not what they do"--and--" Lord, lay not this fin to their ' Chap. iii. zz. " charge ?" chapter{Section 4" charge ?" Or fhall a dying Chriftian fcfu- ple to fay what St. Stephen faid, becaufe Chrift does not appear to the one, as he was pleafed to do to the other ? It is a cavil not fit to proceed from the mouth of a ferious man. We read of many perfons, who, when Chrift was upon earth, falling down upon their faces, and worshipping him, were never checked or reproved for fo doing, as St. John was, when he offered to worfhip the angel, and Cornelius, when he made the fame offer to St. Peter. The author of the epiftle to the Hebrews, evincing the fuperiority of the Son of God over all cre...