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A23631	The moderate Trinitarian containing a description of the Holy Trinity, both according to Scripture, and approved authors for learning, and adherence to the Trinitarian doctrine : being an argument shewing that moderation may and ought to be shewn by and to persons of different conceptions concerning some circumstances relating to the knowledg of the Holy Trinity : together with a short reply to Mr. Joseph Taylor's Brief inquiry whether those who own, and those who deny the divinity of Christ, may communicate together / by Daniel Allen.	Allen, Daniel, fl. 1699.	1699 (1699)	Wing A1023; ESTC R17226	58,738	45

that we are therein agreed HIS Name Jesus signifies a Saviour and Christ is in English Anointed so that this Person we speak of is the Anointed of God to save Mankind His principal Office is to mediate between the most High offended and the Lump of Men offending 1 Tim. 2.5 Now concerning his Mediatorship our Brethren and we agree both believing that he is truly Man having the Actions and Passions of Men as eating drinking sleeping c. And that he had a reasonable Soul that he is to be accounted our Prophet Priest and King that his Death and Bloodshed is sufficient to ransom the World that there is no Remission of Sins without him that he now fits at the right hand of the most High that he shall one day judg the Quick and Dead that he has now all Authority in Heaven and Earth that he is the true Son of God that he is above the Angels that his Flesh is the true Heavenly Bread that whosoever eats thereof shall live for ever that his Blood received by Faith is Drink indeed that he bare our Sins in his own Body on the Tree In these things touching the Person and Offices of Christ and in other material Points of like nature there is an Agreement and why there should be such a falling out I cannot guess unless thro Pride we will have all Men see as we see and in such things as seem not to be preached by the Apostles as necessary Sect. III. Treating on and answering this Question Whether or no we are required in order to our right believing in and worshipping of the Person of Jesus of Nazareth to worship him as the most High God BEfore I come directly to answer this Question I shall first speak of the Worship and Adoration due to him as he is the Christ of God and in that Capacity to be sure subordinate and subject to the Father Now I think it is on all hands allowed that Glory and Honour is to be given to Christ as he is the Mediator And the Reason why all Glory and such Honour is to be given to him is because all Power in Heaven and in Earth is given to him Mat. 28.19 Now I observe that Divine Honour is never to be given to the most High because of a Power given him for the most High gives all things but no Power or Authority can be given to him he has it all originally in himself Now the Power here spoken of was a Power given unto him therefore he had it not as most High but as Christ a confessed Subject and received it of the Father Moreover it is said John 5.22 23. For the Father judgeth no man but hath committed all Judgment unto the Son that all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father And vers 26. For as the Father hath Life in himself so hath he given unto the Son to have Life in himself From hence I note that there is an Honour to be given to Christ as to one invested with Power by and from another and that God the Father hath given and bestowed on him Power and Judgment partly on purpose that Men should pay him this Honour And tho Comparisons as we use to say will not run on all four yet for Illustration sake I will instance the Case of Joseph Pharaoh was King yet says he to Joseph Gen. 41.40 Thou shalt be over my House and according unto thy Word shall all my People be ruled see I have set thee over all the Land of Aegypt and they cried before him Bow the Knee A Badg of Homage and Honour very probably given to the King when he rode amongst the People Here you see tho Pharaoh were King yet the Execution of the Power and the Honour of the Government is given unto Joseph So altho the Father or the Most High be he that hath Authority originally yet the Honour of it and the execution of it in Heaven and in Earth is given unto the Son and he shall keep it and execute it until he hath subdued all his Enemies and then shall deliver it up to God even the Father 1 Cor. 15.24 25 26 27 28. Now about this Honour and Power there is no Controversy that I know of every one of either Party granting that Christ hath not this Power and Honour as he is essentially God most High because then he could not receive it nor yet ever deliver it up again as in all plainness he is said to do And this kind of Advancement and Power and Prerogative is intended Ephes 1.20 21 22. where it is said God hath set him far above all Principalities and Powers and Might and Dominion and every Name that is named not only in this World but also in that which is to come and hath put all things under his Feet The like is mentioned and intended Phil. 2.9 10 11. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a Name which is above every Name That at the Name of Jesus every Knee should bow of things in Heaven and things in Earth and things under the Earth and that every Tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of God the Father The like also is intended Heb. 2.5 6 7 8 9. and in many other places is this kind of Dignity spoken of But as aforesaid this matter is not controverted but the Knot of the Question is Whether over and above this Honour which is to be given unto him as Christ and a principal Officer and Representative of the most High I say whether over and above this Honour we are not bound to worship him as the most High himself that is not as one deserving Honour and Obedience because of Dignity and Power given him but as one deserving and requiring it having originally all Power and Dignity dwelling essentially in him and he the only supream Giver of it to others To this weighty Question with all Modesty and Submission to better Judgments from whom if occasion be I expect Information I humbly answer No that such Worship is not formally to be paid to the Person of Christ as he is the Christ of God Mistake me not let none suppose that I hereby deny the Person of Christ to be essentially God But I say allowing that yet it follows not from thence that we are to pay our Devotion to Christ as to the most High My Reasons for it are as follows First Because when the Apostles preached and discovered him unto the World they seem to discover and preach no such Belief and Practice And first for Peter's first Sermon to the Multitude Act. 2. which caused the Plantation of the first Christian Church he preaches Salvation through the name of Christ vers 21. he let them know that Jesus of Nazareth was no Impostor but a man approved of God by Miracles Wonders and Signs ver 22. he speaks of his Death and Sufferings ver 23. his Resurrection v. 24.

God walk b●fore Me and be thou perfect and I will make My Covenant between Me and thee But not to mention any more of Abraham which we might let it suffice that at every appearance recorded it was never with a plural Denomination Next for Isaac Chap. 26.2 3 4 ● And the Lord appeared unto him and said Go not down into Egypt dwell in the Land which I shall tell thee of sojourn in this Land and I will be with thee and will bless thee and unto thy Seed I will give all these Countries and I will pe●form the Oath which I sware unto Abraham thy Father and I will make thy Seed to multiply Because that Abraham obeyed my Voic● and kept my Charge my Commandments my Statutes and my Laws Next for Jacob Chap. 28. vers 13 15. And behold the Lord stood above it and said I am the Lord God of Abraham thy Father and the God of Isaac the Land whereon thou lyest to thee will I give it And behold I am with thee and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest and will bring thee again into this Land for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken Next we come to Moses Exodus 3. ver 6. Moreover he said I am the God of thy Father the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. And in ver 13 14 15. the most High is particularly desired by Moses upon an emergent occasion to discover himself that he and Israel might know how to conceive of him aright And God gives him particular direction what to say And Moses said unto God Behold when I come unto the Children of Israel and shall say unto them The God of your Fathers hath sent me unto you and they shall say to me What is his name what shall I say unto them And God said unto Moses I AM that I AM and he said Thus shalt thou say unto the Children of Israel I AM hath sent me unto you And God said moreover unto Moses Thus shalt thou say unto the Children of Israel The Lord God of your Fathers the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob hath sent me unto you this is my name for ever and this is my memorial unto all Generations Now surely if the conception of a Trinity of Persons in God were so absolutely necessary in the Act of Worship as is now taught who can but suppose that the Almighty especially being so particularly desired to declare himself and that also in order and to the end that Israel might put their trust and act faith in him aright who can think I say but that the Almighty would have m●de a plain discovery thereof in this place On the other side tho God do here make himself known by such Names or Memorials as sufficiently discover the Oneness of his Being and also his essential Properties both Mercy Goodness Wisdom Truth Love Bounty Justice and the rest which were all discovered to Abraham Isaac and Jacob whose God he here declares himself to be yet what Man not prepossessed can ever imagine that God intended or Israel could by this Description of God conceive of him as a threef●ld subsistence And to the end that you may see the scope of this Description in others Opinions as well as my own I will quote two Authors first Mr. Monk in the Book forecited page 25. I AM that is saith he I am the only true God truly subsisting and not only through the opinion of Men as Id●ls are I am he that hath an everlasting Being unchangeably subsisting of it self not depending upon others infinite most simple the Author and Cause of the being of all things not a borrowed changeable finite dependent and compound Being c. as all the Creatures have Of this mine Essence will I give thee the highest most express and general name of all He that is Secondly I shall quote Mr. Preston in his forecited Book page 96. As if he should say if yet they cannot understand what this name is it is the same that I was known by to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob what I was to them the same will I be to you I was known to them by my Word and by my Works and by my Miracles and the same shall you find me it is that God which hath sent me unto you this is my name Which Words are to be referred not only to the latter Words but to the former I AM THAT I AM. Thus far Mr. Preston And thus you see here is nothing perceived in this Discovery of a Trinity of Persons in others Opinions or our own Reason The next discovery of himself we find in Exod. 6.23 And God spake unto Moses and said I am the Lord And I appeared unto Abraham and unto Isaac and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty but by my Name JEHOVAH w●s I n●t known t● them Here I note two things first that God doth plainly here declare how he taught and directed Abraham Is●ac and Jacob to act Faith in and conceive of him viz. as a God Almighty All-powerful All-sufficient All-wise c. But he mentions not in the least his subsisting in a Trinity S●condly I observe that God doth here m●ke a m●re f●ll copious profound and ●am●le Di●c●very of himself to his Subjects than at any time heretofore by giving them his Name JEHOVAH being the clearest and most proper name of his Being and undivided essential inseparable Properties which sacred Name the Jews deservedly and greatly rever●nce ins●much that the Author of the Book intituled Th● Father's Spectacles to behold his Child saith in his 110. page the Je●●s hold it n●t 〈…〉 to use the name JEHOVAH at all but by the Pri●st● in the S●nct●●●y only and that but once a year And ●iting ●●le●'● Exp●s●●●r s●●● JEHOVAH 〈◊〉 nev●r prono●●●ed 〈◊〉 the Je●● on pain of Dea●● only by the Priest in the Sanct●●●an●torum and that on the day of Exp●●●i●n be●●● bu● once a year And yet notwithstanding thi● further Di●covery and their great Reverence to the Name I do not understand that I●●ael did thereby c●ncei●● a distinction of Pe●s●ns in that one Essence h●ld forth thereby And I perce●ve the Author my Respected F●iend last cited in his 〈◊〉 and 10● page when he paraphrases on the word tho he be a Disciple of the ●i●ene Creed yet notes not a distinction of Per●●ns d●rectly and properly flowing as the genuine sense of this Word But that properly and directly it imports and expresses the Divine Being with all the essential Properties And the most that I can remember I ever read in any Author treating of this Word amounted to no more but this viz. That this sacred Name of the most High was the direct and proper Name of the Divine Essence and all its inseparable Properties tho not excluding yet not declaring discovering or revealing it ●nd●r a threefold personal su●sisting But further