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vine worship , and to offer to him prayers and praises in the same manner as Christ had instructed
them to pray , not to himself \ but to the Father : Cc in that day ye shall request nothing of mo" * whatever ye shall ask the Father in my name he shall give it 5
you . John xvi . 23 , Chariclo in quoting from Luke xxiv . 52 . makes it out that the disciples received Christ ' s benediction in consequence of their Ci worshipful
prostration . " Of the faithfulness of this quotation let the reader judge : — And he led them out ta Bethany ; and lifted up his hands and blessed them ; and it came to pass that while he blessed them , he was parted from them
and carried up into heaven ; — and they worshipped him ; " or as the Improved Version renders it 6 C they did him obeisance / ' The other texts , quoted by Chariclo in support of his opinions , are warped from their fair sense and mean .
mgy since it cannot be inferred from them that Christ considered himself as a proper object of divine worship , however exalted his ideas mi ^ ht be of iiis own
character . Priestley in his Notes on John , cap , xvii . says , " in the course of Christ ' s prayer we shall see many instances , not only of Jesus regarding the Father as the only true God , and of course the only proper object of worship , but of his considering his ctiscfples as standing in the same relation to God with himself . As he was the son of God so all Christians are likewise called sons of God / ' Vol . III . p . 475 .. If by the " pursuit of divine honours , " he meant that he sought that glory which lit knew God had pre-ordained for him from the foundation of the
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world ^ and which he had in view when , he said— tC All things are given me by the Father , ' and
which was to be the reward of his sufferings and death , there can be no objection to the phrase . Our Saviour says ,. ( John xvii . % ) u Glorify thy son , that thy son
also may glorify thee /* Now if this implied the communication of an attribute of divinity , as Chariclo suggests , then Christ pretend * ed to communicate this to God ,
as well as to receive it from him ; and further , he declares that he has given this attribute of divinity to his apostles , in order ,. as he says ( v . 22 . ) * ' that they may be one , as we ( the father and himself ) are one . "
The celebration of what is usually called the Lord ' s Supper , can no more be esteemed an act of worship of Jesus Christ than the celebration of any great states , man , hero , or philosopher , on any particular day , and in commemoration of any splendid occurrence , can be affirmed to be an act of
worship offered to such a character . It is one thing to express our gratitude , by such celebration , to a benefactor , and another to bow down to him and to worship
him . Had the worship of the spirits of just men made perfect , " beta a necessary part of Chrisfianirv . Paul and Barnabas would
scarcely have neglected so fair an occasion of teaching the people of Lystm , that the worship which they refused whilst living would be due to them after their decease : to the Jews , on account of their repugnance to idolatry this would have been particularly needful . ' Notwithstanding Chariclo '' disdain * a' reply to any argument drawn from the Revelations /'
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316 Polytheism not known to Christianity *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1809, page 316, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1737/page/14/
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