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$ 9 xa $ t worship the Lord thy God ,, mid him only shall them served Mat . iii . iO- When the first Cb ristians saw ( the Messiah as-« ceiidiii or into heavenit was oa&u
-, ral fos- them to pay him the tribute
>© f very great respect , 'X * ufce xxav , £ 2 . ; tut tiae player of the Aposties , recorded Acts iv . 24 , &c , was addressee ! to God only . Stephen , it is allowed , said , Lord Jesus receive my spuit ;* ' but then the Messiah appeared to him ici a
vision ^ and there is no X authority for inserting tl * e word 4 God ^ " viu ^ 9 •• as the Englisfc reader mky &aow , from its being printed in italics . The praises of famous 3 i * en , which appear iia the Book of
Kcclesiastious * are not devout ad-Ecclesiastious ., are not devout addresses to them 9 and are closed by ; & prayer of ike writer to God alone * In like jcnanner , when I 3 nitaxian 'Christians pffer thaaksgkdags for the gospel , they iiaecu . tioB'the natae of Jesus Cferist , and If be
utter his praise ^ this ivhat Chariclo calls warshi p ^ he is entitled to his own meaning of the term ; yet still not one targairaeait whicii he has produced , may tend
in tne ieast d / . 'gree to sh-ew , that Christianity if ; a system of polytheism , or of fliiany Crods . Whatever the angels were , mentioned Colossians , ii . 18 . as one should have supposed , that the writer ibore ^ far fr < om countenancing ,
abjilted to ill worship of them , so it is well known that this , and several oth « er epistles , were written to guard against the introduction of sucia practices by the
gnosticswho fancied various orders of beiqgsitaterfering in the goverpmei ) t jof the world . If Christianity had beeu intended to-be a system of polytheism , wherefore did the . apostle Peter refuse the trfbiite of
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respect offered i&m . by Odraeii&s ^ saying , ** stoRd up I also am a ^^ tan ^ ' Acts x , 26 , Wherefore did Baraaibas auad Pa « l ^ with gri « ef and Indignation , reject the honours i «« tended ttiexn a < t Lystra ^ declaring ^ that they were men of like affec * lions ivith others ,, aiad that ofc £
object of Christianity was to turn mankind from such vanities to the worship of $ fa"e living 'God , who made faeaveia , the earth , and the sea , a ^ id " whatever is in thetn ? xiv .
15 . JSIay there not be some reason to suppose that the angei ^ who refused John ' s worship according to the Book of' ReveJatioij , xix . IO . aod xxii . . £ ) niigiit be Jesus Christ himself ? If so , what becomes of Chariclo ' s
assertion 5 that Christianity'is a sys ~ tern , of polytheism ? tJnless Je ^ iis Christ can be proved to be God * -or there be express authority for the devout worship of ' luiri , the spirit of the passage , if not the
letter , 1 $ . adverse to the ' praetioe . The well-beloved Son of God , who kne ^ sr not the < 1 ay of his own futiire iroriaing , % lark xii « $£ Who * vas made in fashion as & ' tnan PhiL ii . 7 . who took oh him the
form of a servant , the great Ap 6 stlc Jesus Christ , Hob . iii . l . iiught \ xvU say to the disciple , whom h « loved * * I am thy fellow servant , worship GodS * Tfais sayiiig at least , is perfectly consistent with his declaration to the scribe , ** Why callest thou me good ? there is
none good but one , that is G < $ dS Matt . xi ^ . l 6 . r I he distinction between the divine and human nature , made to reconcile sUch apparent anonTaliesj seerns to hie
worth y qf no other school than that of Ignatius Loyola . Your correspondent , ' Mr . Marsom , makes not such hardy asser-
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25 Remarks ® n £ ke Ckurckmafr * Ck&ricl ^ ^ &nd Mr * M&rstim *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1809, page 26, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1732/page/26/
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