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A92970 Several arguments against bowing at the name of Jesus. By a learned author. Learned author. 1660 (1660) Wing S2751; Thomason E1050_7; ESTC R203547 15,307 24

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the Name of Jesus it tends to magnifie one Name of Christ with the disparagement of all Ergo. The Major I take for clear and granted because whatever reflects prejudice upon any the great and sacred Names and Titles of God upon any pretence whatsoever is not to be endured The Minor is thus confirmed because this name only being judged a fit medium of conveying a special honour or service to Christ others not thought worthy of fuch an Office or Employment this must needs turn to a reproach unto them that they shall all be defective this way in comparison of this one Object Neither is it any part of satisfaction to say That it is not denied unto the rest men may do the same reverence upon the mention of any other name To this I Answer Resp 1. That it manifestly argues a comparlative contempt when there is honour and reverence setled upon one by a Law and men set at liberty to deal with the rest as they please It is a sign that the Law-ma●ers take not much care what becomes of the rest so the name they have fancied may be exalted that their fancy likewise may be exalted with it 2. If this Knee-Service were done upon the mention of every name or Title of Christ besides somtimes it might so fall out viz. when such names come many or very oft together that it may make the body of the Service ridiculous and a good part of a little better than a meer distraction Ergo The liberty that is left to men in this case doth not ease the business at all because if it be taken in the way by which it is intended the other names of Christ shall be brought to an equality of honour with that of JESUS The truth is that it will be so far from doing this that it will bring them altogether one and other without exception into contempt Arg. IX THat worship of Christ which reflects disparagement upon the other two Persons as if they were inferiour to him and worthy less honour is at no hand to be allowed But this worship is such a worship enjoyned only to the Second Person It is true God hath given all the Honour and Dignity unto Christ whereof he now stands possessed as Mediator to this end that all men should honour the Son as they honour the Father John 7.22 23. But that men should honour him above the Father or with any such kind of worship wherewith the Father is not honoured there is no Scripture will bear it nor the Analogy of Faith endure it Obj. If it be replied and said that the same honour and worship may be exhibited to the other persons when men will they are not restrained in this case Resp To this I Answer in effect as before This liberty left unto men doth no way justifie the command by which that special and peculiar worship to the Second Person is injoyned the other two Persons being passed over it provides no such worship either for the Father or Holy Ghost it gives men liberty as well to deprive them of it as to refer it unto them Obj. Neither is it of any greater value to say and pretend that in bowing to Christ we bow to the whole Trinity in him and that it is no more disparagement to the other Persons to refer a special honour upon Christ so they be not excluded in it than for a man to direct his Prayers unto any one of the Persons alone is no disparagement or neglect of the other if he do not exclude them though he addresseth himself actually to one only in Prayer Resp 1. To this the reply is That the case is altogether unlike because first though it be lawful at any time to direct a mans Prayer to any one of the Three Persons but supposing the other two not excluded though they be not actually intended yet is there strict provision made in the Scripture and command given for the same Divine worship to be exhibited to them all whereas this worship of bowing is by the commandment setled only upon the Second Person and not so much as the least mention made of either of the other as having any right to communicate in the same worship with him 2. A man directing his Prayer at one time to one of the Persons in particular may at another time direct it to another and a third time to the Third and so the equality of the Three Persons is fully acknowledged But in the command and tender of this knee-worship a man is only sent with it to the Son neither will it serve or be accepted to tender this honour to the Son in the Father or in the Holy Ghost as in Prayer it is accepted with God but it will suffice if the Father and Holy Ghost be worshipped in the Son yea if they be not worshipped it will serve also by which it appears evidently that there is a wide difference between the one and the other 3. If the Scripture had limitted or restrained the duty or worship of Prayer to one of the Persons only limited I mean in such a sence that it had mentioned only this one Person as capable of this worship and had given no intimation of a like capacity in the other two though it had not expresly excepted against them in this behalf it is evident that it had established at least strongly intimated an inequality between the Persons and given a preheminence to the one above the other two This is the very case of this Precept for bowing at the Name JESUS There is a full establishment of a capacity of this worship in the Second Person but there is not the least intimation given of the like capacity in either of the other Ergo it directly tends to set up a conceit of an inequality between the persons in the minds of men and therefore is not to be assented unto Arg. X. NO outward Worship or Service of God that can have no other reasonable end but only to intrap and insnare the faithful Servants of God is not to be endured But such is this bowing-worship Ergo. Object But if it be here excepted and said It serves to testifie the inward reverence of the heart and the frame of the Soul how it stands affected to the Lord Jesus and what can be a more real end To this I Answer Resp 1. It is commanded to be done whether the heart be inwardly affected or no to God so that if that be the intent of it to express the inward reverence of the soul to Christ then is the commanding of it a snare unto men to intangle them with the sin of Hypocrisie because it is not in any mans power to have his heart inwardly affected when he pleases But the command of Bowing enjoynes him to the outward worship whether he find his heart inwardly affected yea or no. Now to compell a man to make profession of some good that is not in truth in him what