CHAP. III.
The Person of Christ the most Ineffable Effect of Divine Wis∣dom and Goodness. Thence the next cause of all true Reli∣gion. In what sense it is so.
THE Person of Christ is the most Glorious and Ineffable Effect of Divine Wisdom, Grace and Power, and there∣fore is the next Foundation of all acceptable Religion and Worship. The Divine Being it self is the first formal Reason, Foundation and Object of all Religion. It all depends, on taking God to be our God, which is the first of his Com∣mands. For Religion and the Worship performed in it, is nothing but the due respect of rational creatures, unto the Di∣vine Nature, and its infinite Excellencies. It is the glorify∣ing of God as God, the way of expressing that respect, being regulated by the Revelation of his Will. Yet the Divine Essence is not in it self the next and immediate cause of Re∣ligious Worship. But it is the manifestation of this Being and its Excellencies wherewith the mind of rational creatures is immediately affected, and whereby it is obliged to give that Religious Honour and Worship which is due unto that Being, and necessary from our Relation thereunto. Upon this manifestation all creatures capable by an intelligent nature of a sense thereof, are indispensibly obliged to give all Divine Honour and Glory to God.