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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52603	An accurate examination of the principal texts usually alledged for the divinity of our Saviour and for the satisfaction by him made to the justice of God, for the sins of men : occasioned by a book of Mr. L. Milbourn, called Mysteries (in religion) vindicated.	Nye, Stephen, 1648?-1719.	1692 (1692)	Wing N1502A; ESTC R225859	84,564	68

can and doth by a Power constantly vested in him as Socinus supposes relieve our Wants to what purpose is he appointed to be our Advocate and Intercessor with God How unlike and utterly inconsistent are these two Sayings this of Socinus We may and ought to pray to the Lord Christ as He who can himself help us and this contrary saying of the Apostle He Christ it able to save to the uttermost All that come unto God by him i. e. that pray to God calling on his Name or for his sake seeing He ever liveth to make Intercession for them What can be more evident than that here Christ's saving us from the Evils which we either fear or labour under is ascribed not to his own Inherent Power but to the Power of his Intercession or Mediation with God Which Mediation is not to be understood of a Verbal or Personal Mediation proceeding from a particular knowledg of our Wants or Prayers but of a general Mediation for All by his Merits that is by the perfect Obedience and most acceptable Services that he has performed to God The truth is Socinus and the Socinians properly so called do not own the Mediatory Office of Christ But they make him to be a Mediator not that He intercedes for us but because He is Medius inter Deum Homines between God and Men being vested with a Power from God to bestow on the Faithful all necessary and convenient Things in a word He is not an Intercessor for Us but a King to protect and help us Thus Volkelius as he has been published perhaps corrected by Crellius saith Etiam s●●nunc c. i. e. Although Christ did now pray for us which yet we do not grant it will not follow that He himself may not be prayed unto for nothing hinders but that he who prays to another may also be prayed to De verâ Relig. Lib. 5. c. 30. p. 618. For my own part I do not affirm any thing upon this Question but I have mentioned these Arguments and Replies that it may appear that if our present Opposer Mr. Milb does indeed say true that Person must needs be God who may be prayed unto yet it will not follow therefore the Lord Christ is God because it cannot be demonstratively proved that there is any real Scripture-ground for praying unto him But he will still urge that at least those Unitarians who contend for the Invocation of the Lord Christ are within danger and reach of his Objection even this that they must ascribe to Christ an Omniscience Omnipotence and Omnipresence which are the very Attributes the essential Attributes of the One true God I do not think this is a necessary Consequence they do not make another God by their praying to the Lord Christ it doth not follow that He is Omnipresent Omniscient and Omnipotent because 't is supposed and held that He may be prayed unto and also can supply all our Wants First For Omniscience 'T is the General Opinion of all Sects and Parties of Christians that the glorified Saints have more than a Prophetick Knowledg by what which the Schools have called the Beatifick Vision or as the Apostle speaks by seeing God as he is The Benefit of the Beatifick Vision shall be to Persons in proportion to their Labour of Duty and Love which they have showed to the Service of God Therefore our Lord Christ in his present Glorified State may have such a perfect sight of God as to see in him the Desires and Prayers the Distresses Defects and Perfections of such as call upon God in his Name The Fathers and Schools do suppose that the Saints in Heaven know very many things both past and to come by the Beatifick Vision and that the Conversation in Heaven is not by Speech or Words but by Intuition or Vision or some the like way 'T is not therefore irrational or bordering on Idolatry or on Polytheism if we suppose that by the same Beatifick Vision our Prayers are known to the Lord Christ especially considering that He is the Appointed Mediator for us Next for Omnipotence and Omnipresence the Lord Christ may be able to succours us in Wants both Temporal and Spiritual without our supposing either that He is Omnipresent or Omnipotent For the Omnipotence of God can confer even on things Insensible a miraculous Power nay such a Power as can effect Miracles at the greatest distance Thus the Bones of the Prophet had Power to restore a dead Man to Life The Brazen Serpent healed such as did but look toward it from a distant Place But if such Virtue as this could be given to inanimate Things the Divine Wisdom may have Reasons and the Divine Omnipotence has an Ability to enable the Lord Christ to do Miracles as far as from Heaven to Earth and such Miracles too as reach the Minds as well as the Bodies of Men. We know not the Philosophy or the Manner of the thing but as 't is undeniable not impossible so 't is an Hypothesis more rational and infinitely more safe and pious than to multiply Gods or what is the same thing only in other words Divine Persons as our Trinitarian Opposers do I shall only add farther upon this Subject of the Invocation of Christ that whereas 't is a Question that has very much divided the Unitarians Whether the Lord Christ may be prayed unto There is no cause why the should not bear with one another notwithstanding their dissent about this Question For we have seen that He may be the Object of Prayer without making him God or a Person of God and without ascribing to him the Properties of the Divine Nature Omnipresence Omniscience and Omnipotence Nor on the other hand do such as refuse to pray to any but God dishonour the Lord Christ even tho it be supposed that He may be prayed to because in refusing to pray to him they only refuse what they suppose that He himself hath forbidden which maketh their Error if it be an Error to be pure and meer Error not Malice not Neglect or Contempt which are the only things that are punishable by a just Judg whether such Judg be God or a Man Which one thing were it but considered as I think 't is consest by such as are Legislators or Judges the Account they must give at last to God would be much more comfortable and tolerable for them than now it is like to be Of the Adoration or Worship of Christ That our Lord Christ is to be worshipped was never made a Question by the Unitarians we doubt not that the Angels of Heaven do worship him the Question is concerning the kind or sort of Worship Trinitarians say He is to be worshipped as God we say He is to be worshipp'd as one that I may use the Apostle's words whom God hath exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour or as another Apostle speaks as one whom God hath given to be Head over all things to the