A53669:98
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of the person and satisfaction of Christ / accommodated to the capacity and use of such as may be in danger to be seduced, and the establishment of the truth by J. Owen.
London: printed by R.W. for Nath. Ponder, 1669
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They say therefore commonly, that we prove not by these testimonies what is by them denied. For they acknowledge Christ to be God, and that because he is exalted unto that Glory and Authority that all creatures are put into subjection unto him; and all both men and Angels are commanded to worship ⟨p. 55⟩and adore him. So that he is God by Office, though he be not God by nature. He is God, but he is not the most high God. And this last expression they have almost continually in their mouths. He is not the most high God. And commonly with great contempt and scorn they are ready to reproach them who have solidly confirmed the Doctrine of the Deity of Christ, as ignorant of the state of controversy, in that they have not proved him to be the most high God, in subordination unto whom, they acknowledge Christ to be God, and that he ought to be worshipped with Divine and Religious worship.
They say therefore commonly, that we prove not by these testimonies what is by them denyed. For they acknowledge Christ to be God, and that because he is exalted unto that Glory and Authority that all creatures are put into subjection unto him; and all both men and Angels are commanded to worship ⟨p. 55⟩and adore him. So that he is God by Office, though he be not God by nature. He is God, but he is not the most high God. And this last expression they have almost continually in their mouths. He is not the most high God. And commonly with great contempt and scorn they are ready to reproach them who have solidly confirmed the Doctrine of the Deity of Christ, as ignorant of the state of controversie, in that they have not proved him to be the most high God, in subordination unto whom, they acknowledge Christ to be God, and that he ought to be worshipped with Divine and Religious worship.
But there cannot be any thing more empty and vain than these pretences. And besides they accumulate in them, their former Errors, with the addition of new ones. For,