Duties enjoined in reference to Him. Confidence--Worship, &c.
II. That the same honours are ascribed to the Son. (He went over each
of the above particulars, showing from Scripture their application to
the Son.)
III. That, therefore, the Son is properly and truly God.
1. We cannot believe the Scriptures would ascribe the same honours to
Him as to the Father, if He were not equal to the Father.
2. If He be not truly God, the Scriptures tempt to idolatry.
3. If He be not truly God, the accounts which the Scriptures give of
Him are self-contradictory.
4. If He be not truly God, there is no evidence from Scripture that
there is a God at all.
This was a massive and compact argument for the Divinity of Christ. It
occupied upwards of an hour in the delivery, and was read.
In the afternoon I took care to be in the pulpit five minutes before
the time. The Doctor shortly after came, and took his seat behind me.
This to me is always an annoyance,--I would almost as soon have a man
with me in bed as in the pulpit;--and in this instance it was
peculiarly so, as towards the close, although I had not exceeded forty
minutes, I felt quite persuaded that the Doctor was pulling at my
coat-tail, which led me rather abruptly to conclude.
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