The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…

Thirdly, This good pleasure of his must be known by the holy Scriptures, in which he hath revealed his pleasure as to our duty. But then I will say with your Master Socinus, If the Scripture doth say so, it must not be believed, because it is contrary to reason; therefore there is some other hidden sense in that Scripture which must be searched out, this is fair dealing, I do but measure to Socinus in his own bushel, for I am sure here is a Principle contrary to Reason, and sound Reason.

Fourthly, I utterly deny it, that ever it was the pleasure of God, that religious worship should be given to any mere Creature. Take Christs word for that, Matth. 4.10. It is written (there is an old Law for this, God hath manifested his pleasure as to this point) Deut. 6.13. and 10.20. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou ⟨image 15⟩serve. Crellius makes great use of this exclusive Particle only, in John 17.3. which he puts in the front of all his Texts against the Divinity of Christ, because he said in his Prayer, This is life eternal, to know thee the only true God: Crellius putting the stress upon the word only, proves that Christ excludes himself from being the true God. By the same word, and as good reason, say I, doth Christ exclude himself from being the Object of religious worship: Let the Socinians say what they can, I know what distinctions Socinus useth to help himself here; but whence had he them? Out of the Turkish Alcoran, not out of the holy Scriptures I am sure, they are wholly silent as to any such Notions; so that thence he must have them, or they are the putrid Figments of his corrupt brain: But let Francken alone with him, I will not multiply more Texts being now I am in an Epistle to the Reader. Only one Text more which Francken urgeth against Socinus,