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CHAP. IX.
Honour due to the Person of Christ; the Nature and Causes of it.
MAny other Considerations of the same nature with those foregoing relating unto the Glory and Honour of the Person of Christ, may be taken from all the Fundamen∣tal Principles of Religion. And our Duty it is in them all, to consider the Apostle and High Priest of our Profession the Author and Finisher of our Faith. I shall not insist on more, but proceed unto those Principles of Truth which are immediately directive of our Duty towards him; without diligent atten∣dance whereunto, we do but in vain bear the name of Chri∣stians. And the substance of what is designed may be inclu∣ded in the following Assertion.
The Glory, Life and Power of Christian Religion, as Christi∣an Religion, and as seated in the souls of men, with all the Acts and Duties which properly belong thereunto, and are therefore peculiarly Christian, and all the Benefits and Priviledges we receive by it, or by vertue of it, with the whole of the Honour and Glory that arise unto God thereby, have all of them their formal nature and reason, from their Respect and Relation unto the Person of Christ; nor is he a Christian who is otherwise minded.
In the confirmation hereof it will appear what Judgment ought to be passed on that enquiry, which after the uninter∣rupted Profession of the Catholick Church for so many Ages of a Faith unto the contrary, is begun to be made by some a∣mongst us; namely, of what use is the Person of Christ in Re∣ligion. For it proceeds on this supposition, and is determined accordingly, that there is something in Religion wherein the