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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64226	A brief enquiry whether they who assert, and they who deny, the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, may have communion together at the Lords table By Joseph Taylor.	Taylor, Joseph, 17th/18th cent.	1698 (1698)	Wing T536; ESTC R220650	24,202	72

Foundations of the Earth and the Heavens are the Work of thy Hands they shall perish but thou remainest and they shall wax old as doth a Garment and as a Vesture shalt thou fold them together but thou art the same and thy Years shall not fail Of what meer Creature can it be said He is Eternal Life without Blasphemy yet of Jesus Christ is it said This is the True God 1 John 5.20 and Eternal Life From all which nothing is more evident that he is either True God of the same Essence with his Father or he was a Blasphemer and his Disciples Idolaters For either a meer Creature may assume all this without Blasphemy or else these things are not so and certainly we may as well deny the Light at Noon-Day as the clearness of this Evidence 2. To strengthen this Those works which are peculiar to the Deity that none did or could do but the Most High God his Disciples ascribe to him and positively assert he did them which cannot be without Blasphemy if he did them not It is God only Created the World this was the distinguishing Character of God in the Old Testament that He made Heaven and Earth And this is beyond all contradiction ascribed to Jesus Christ John 1.1 2 3.14 Col. 1.16 Heb. 1 10. That all things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made That in the beginning he laid the Foundations of the Earth and the Heavens are the works of his Hands It is the Almighty God only that Sustains this mighty Universe all things are upheld in being by the Word of his Power and yet of Jesus Christ these words are spoken Vpholding all things by the word of his power Heb. 1.3 I ask what can be said greater of God than this and what can be greater Blasphemy if he was a Creature only Yea he assumes to himself the power of forgiving sins Mat. 9.6 of Quickening whom he will of bestowing eternal life The Peculiar Character of SAVIOVR Isa 43.11 Chap. 41.21 whereby the God of Israel is distinguished from all other Gods he eminently claims I am the Lord and besides me there is no Saviour This is spoken on purpose to beat men off from trusting in any other as a Saviour but the God of Israel and this is ascribed to Christ in the most eminent manner The saviour of all men 1 Tim. 4.10 John 4.42 Rom. the Saviour of the World who is to be believed in and trusted in as such Fourthly That you may be assured all this was spoken properly of him the Evangelists acquaint us he made himself equal with God John 5.18 He said also God was his Father making himself equal with God John 10.30 I and my Father are one whereupon the Jews took up Stones to stone him for Blaphemy because he being a Man made himself God ver 33. And least any should think it was only the Jews mistake the Apostle Paul assures us That Jesus Christ thought it no robbery to be equal with him For he saith without any manner of hesitation Phil. 2.6 that he was in the form of God and thought it no robbery to be equal with God In Isa 40.25 the Lord makes a challenge to whom then will you liken me or shall I be equal saith the Holy one Heaven and Earth and all the Creatures in it cannot be Compared with him v. 17.18 they are nothing less than nothing and Vanity But the Apostle Paul likens compares and equals Jesus Christ to him and lets us know Jesus Christ himself thought it no Robery to be equal to the most High God who being in the Form of God thought it no robery to be equal with God It is the more to be remark't because it is the Apostle Paul that thus speaks who above all the Apostles exalts God and debases the Creature 2 Cor. 4.7 We have this treasure in earthen Vessels to the end that the excellency of the Power may be of God and not of us Who very well knew that Jesus Christ was accused of Blasphemy and was Condemned and Crucified for making himself equal with God Who also knew the Prophet Isaiah had asserted there was none to be likened or compared with Him and yet with the greatest assurance asserts He was in the Form of God and was equal to him Jesus Christ therefore is of the same Essence with the Father or he was the greatest of Blasphemers 5. To put the Matter out of doubt that all this was spoken in a true and proper Sense he requires Divine Adoration and his Disciples assert it is due to him and Divine Adoration cannot be given to the highest Creature without Idolatry it is most certain they which adore God adore none but under that Idea But they gave Adoration to Jesus Christ The Evangelists tell us That at his Birth he was adored first by the Shepherds of Bethlehem and then by the Wise Men and the Author to the Hebrews expresly tells us Heb. 1.6 That when he was brought into the World God said let all the Angels of God Worship him He required John 5.23 that Men should Honour the Son as they honoured the Father That as they believed in God Chap. 14.1 they should believe in him and can there be Faith in Christ without Paying Divine Homage to him Rom. 15.2 In him shall the Gentiles trust And a Curse is pronounced against trusting in a Creature Jer. 17. Both outward and inward Worship is required to be given Him 1. He requires we should Dedicate our selves to him and therefore must be Baptized in his Name Matth. 18.19 whereby we are Devoted to Him 2. Divine Invocation is given to him by his Disciples Acts 7.59 1 Cor. 1.2 2. Divine Praises are offered up to him Rev. 5.9 Chap. 7.9 10. Chap. 11.15 17. 4. He received Worship from the Leper Mat. 6.2 From his Disciples Mat. 28.17 When they saw him they Worshipped him From the Mariners Matth. 14.33 This the Angel would not receive from John because he was a Creature only but charges him to Worship God Rev. 22.8 9. From whence one of these Three Things will follow that either 1. The Angel was mistaken his Charge to John needless and his Direction to Worship God Alone in Vain Or 2. That Jesus Christ was God by Nature and so Divine Worship belonged to him which is certainly the Truth Or 2. He was an Impostor and was guilty of Blasphemy in receiving that Worship and Honour as belonged to God only Objection I know it is Objected That the Honour required by Jesus Christ was not the Honour due to God alone Answer I Answer The contrary is easily Evinced That Jesus Christ required that Honour as is due to God alone For He required Divine Adoration in Thought in Word and Deed. 1. In Thought He Attributes to himself the Names and Nature of God his Eternity Almighty Power Immutability

sent from God But he would not have him have the Name of God nor of the Son of God his Words are not so obscure nor equivocal He saith plainly That they are Unbelievers and Infidels who say that the Son of Mary is God he saith the Christians are Infidels making Three Gods when there is but One and he would that Men should call upon the Creator of Heaven and Earth which made the Light and the Darkness Now I say if Christ was not God Mahomet spoke more truly and plainly than Christ He had more Wisdom and took more Care not to intangle the Souls of Men he was more zealous of the Glory of God and would not Attribute to himself the Names and Nature of GOD as Christ did These are such Consequences as our hearts abhor as full of Blasphemy but they are such as we must be constrained to receive for Truth if Jesus Christ is not of the same Essence with his Father 2. If Christ is not true God of the same Essence with his Father then he was an Imposter his Disciples Deceivers the Jewish Sanhedrim did justly in sentencing him to Death for Blasphemy the Jews do well in maintaining that Sentence in rejecting the Preaching of the Apostles and Ministers of Christ That Christian Religion is a Cheat it is Superstition and Idolatry and the Messiah is not yet come And certainly if this be proved true all will allow with me that this Principle is of such a consequence that they who assert and they who deny it ought not to have Communion together In order to the Proof of what is asserted I take it for granted That none will deny the Jewish Sanhedrim being a Council of Gods own appointing to judge in Capital Matters relating to their own Tranquility either in Church or State to the Preservation of their Religion and Laws But that they had a right to judge to condemn and to put to Death for Blasphemy The only thing therefore to prove is That if Jesus Christ was not God then he was a Blasphemer and they had reason to condemn him for Blasphemy which appears in what followeth It is Blasphemy for a meer Creature to call himself by those Names that are proper only to the Divine Being with the Names to ascribe to himself the Nature of God And those Perfections which distinguish him from all Creatures to assert that he is equal with God that he ought to have Divine Homage and Adoration given him And Lastly to ascribe those Scriptures of the Old Testament to himself which are spoken of none but the most High God I think none will vindicate such a Person from being a Blasphemer and his Disciples who attribute these things to him to be Idolaters It remains then only to prove That he did these things which is evident from the Writings of his Disciples before the proof of which I will only remark that what his Disciples asserted of him must be look't upon as asserted by himself because that they spoke as they were Inspired by his Spirit it was one and the same-Spirit that dwelt in both First That the Name of God is given him is beyond all Contradiction John 20.28 The great God Tit. 2.13 Where the Learned note that the Greek Article put before the Great God and which agrees to Saviour also is in the original a certain Mark that these two Terms are understood of the same Person and that it is Jesus Christ who is called the Saviour and great God both together The True God Rom. 9.5 1 John 5.20 Yea God above all Blessed for ever The Mighty Most Mighty Psal 45.3 Heb. 1.8 Yea Almighty is ascribed to him Rev. 1.8 Secondly That the Incommunicable Names of God viz. Such as can belong to none but the Supream Being are ascribed to him is evident Jehovah is a Name only belonging to the most High God Psal 83.18 Pray read these Scriptures Thou whose name alone is Jehovah and this is attributed to Christ if you compare Isa 6.1 with John 12.41 and Psal 102.25 with Heb. 1.10 Where note that Lord in these Texts is Jehovah in the Original I am that I am is an incommunicable Name of God Exod. 3.14 this Jesus Christ attributes to himself John S. 58. He saith not before Abraham was I was but before Abraham was I am Which would not be sence if he did not signifie he was the I am before Abraham and the significancy of that Name viz. Eternity and Immutability he claims to Himself Rev. 1.8 From whence it is evident he is of the same Essence c. Or he was a Blasphemer because no meer Creature can without Blasphemy ascribe these Names of the most High God to himself 2. With the Name the Nature of God and the most distinguishing Characters thereof he claimes to himself It is the highest Blasphemy for a meer Creature to claim Eternity For nothing can be Eternal but God There can be but One Being that never was made But Jesus Christ claims this incommunicable Perfection of the God-head to himself and that in such Terms as the Father expresses his own Eternity Isa 43.6 Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel I am the first and the last and besides me there is no God and thus saith Jesus Christ Rev. 1.8 Chap. 2.8 ver 18. I am the Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending which is and which was and which is to come the Almighty Omnisciency is an incommunicable Property of the Divine Being 1 Kings 8.39 For thou even thou only knowest the Hearts of all the Children of Men And the same Jesus Christ saith of himself I am he which searcheth the Reins and Hearts Rev. 2.23 John 21.17 And his Disciples ascribe this to him Thou knowest all things which must be Blasphemy if he was not God Omnipresence belongs only to God And yet this Christ claims to himself Math 18.20 and Chap. 28.19 And asserts he was in Heaven whilst he was on Earth John 3.13 which cannot be said of any Creature without manifest Impiety Omnipotency is an Attribute belonging only to the Supream Being and this is spoken of Christ John 5.19 21. Phil. 3.21 Immortality is so ascribed to Christ as it is proper only to the Eternal God 1 Tim. 6.16 who only hath immortality dwelling in that light which no man can approach unto This can be only said of the Supream Being Jesus Christ is of the same Essence therefore or He is a Blasphemer for it is He of whom this is spoken as plainly appears by the preceding Verse Immutability is an Attribute belonging only to God it can only be said of God Jam. 1.17 In him is no variableness neither shadow of turning And was he not God of the same essence with the Father what Blasphemy would it be to say Heb. 13.8 Chap. 1.10.11.12 Jesus Christ the same yesterday to day and for ever And Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the