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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30019	Discourses and essays on several subjects, relating chiefly to the controversies of these times, especially with the Socinians, deists, enthusiasts, and scepticks by Ja. Buerdsell ...; Selections. 1700	Buerdsell, James, 1669 or 70-1700.	1700 (1700)	Wing B5363; ESTC R7240	90,520	247

there is no miraculous opening of the Heavens nor the glorious Scene withdrawn to discover the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God Farther At the Name of Jesus is not every knee to bow of things in Heaven and things under the Earth Are not all the Angels to worship him So that since nothing is to be worship'd but God and Christ is to be worship'd it follows that Christ is God But to make a short Reflection on what has been said on this Argument There is no occasion to prove to the strict Followers of Socinus that Christ ought to be worship'd for they are as zealous Patrons of his Worship as they are artificial Underminers of his Divinity For Socin ad Praefat. Vujek p. 8. Edit 1624. Socinus expresly Excommunicates all those who denied our Saviour's Worship He declares that If Christ is not to be invok'd then is he Christ only in Name That such Praefat. ad Respons F. David a Notion is a manifest tendency to Judaism and to exalt Moses above Christ That Tom. 1. pag. 656. they who are against the Worship of Christ cannot be Christians because tho' they dare not openly yet do they really deny Jesus to be Christ. But that which made it necessary in this Argument to insist on the Worship due to Christ is the Position of the modern Socinians who finding how hard it was to reconcile the Worship of a God Made with the Divine Prohibitions against Idolatry have thrown off our Saviour's Worship with his Divinity I shall only quote the words of one of their own Party There are says he no acts of Worship Answer to Milbourne p. 50. requir'd to be paid to the Lord Jesus Christ but such as may be paid to a Civil Power to a Person in high Dignity and Office to Prophets and Holy Men and to such as are actually possest of the Heavenly Beatitudes But to proceed Secondly Christ or the Word is God because of his Co-partnership with God the Father in those Actions which could only be perform'd by his Substantial union with the Divine Nature These Actions are the Creation of the World the Inspiration of the Prophets the Exercising all power in Heaven and in Earth Raising the Dead out of their Graves Judging them according to their Works the Destruction of the World First Christ is God because of His Co-partnership with God the Father in the Creation of the World For to Create is an act proper to the Deity For he spake and it was done he commanded and it stood fast He hath made the Earth by his Power he hath established the World by his Wisdom and hath stretched out the Heavens by his Discretion Nor had he any Creature to assist him in his miraculous Production for He is God even he alone he made Heaven and Earth But 't is very plain that all things were Created by Christ For all things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made He was in the World and the World was made by him and the World knew him not 'T is true the Socinians understand this Creation not of the Mosaick forming every thing out of Nothing but of the New Gospel-Creation by which the Reasonable World if we may so style it was put into a capacity of recovering its original Rectitude and Uprightness But this is a forc'd sence and quite different from what the ancient Fathers understood the words in Nay the very Arians themselves apply'd them to a proper Creation and to obviate the stress of them made Christ God's Instrument or subservient Power only in the Creation But as to the Socinian sence if Creation in these places is wholly Figurative and Metaphorical why may it not be so in the first Chapter of Genesis too Why may not the Creation of the visible Heavens and the Earth in the Old Testament be no more than the Foundation of the Jewish Common-wealth since it is own'd that by New Heavens and new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness in the New no more is understood than a renew'd state of things under the Gospel Why should the darkness which was upon the face of the Earth signifie more than that State of spiritual Darkness which blinded the whole World before the Mosaick Law Why might not the Sun be the Law the great Guide of the Jews the Moon and the Stars the Laws and Directors of other obscurer Nations Why may not the Firmament amidst the Waters be the Jewish Polity struggling with oppositions as the Earth appearing out of the Waters the settlement of that State since Waters in Scripture-Language often denote Troubles And thus a new Face might be put upon the whole Scripture But farther to overthrow this novel and over-refin'd sence of Creation St. Paul remarks to the Colossians that By Christ were all things created that are in Heaven and that are in Earth visible and invisible whether they are Thrones and Dominions or Principalities or Powers Where it is to be observ'd first That All in Heaven and Earth things void of Reason and so not liable to Error or Sin and so uncapable of this New Creation were made by Christ Secondly That Dominions and Powers Angels whether Good or Bad were form'd by him But the Good had no need of this New Gospel-Creation They never stain'd those Robes of Glory with which they were made and so had no need to be washed by the bloud of the Lamb. The Bad as falling from the very Throne of God and descending cheaply and foolishly into Darkness contracted such a Guilt as the greatest Mercy of the Gospel could not reach And so were unfit Subjects for this New Creation Thirdly That it was the aim of this Epistle to oppose the Heresie of Simon Magus Menander and Basilides v. Epiphan p. 56. Edit Pet. ● whose Error it was That the World was made by the Angels To confront which S. Paul not only shews that Angels themselves were created and so could not be Creators but that they and the whole World were made by God and Christ and the Holy Spirit Three Persons and One God So that this place can never be understood of this New Creation or Gospel Renovation As Christ is God because he Created the World so is he God Secondly Because he Inspir'd the Holy Prophets For he by whom the Prophets spake was God For the Word which came by them was the Word of the Lord and the Scriptures which they wrote is said to be given by Inspiration of God For Holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost But he who speaks by the Holy Ghost speaks by the Spirit of God the Son as well as by the Spirit of God the Father 'T is true Schlictingius answers That the Holy Ghost is term'd the Spirit of Christ not because he proceeded from Christ but because he spake of Christ But in this sence the Holy Ghost might be call'd the Spirit