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him only shalt thou serve: by which all divine woi- 

 ship is utterly cut off from the" Son and Holy Ghost, 

 unless they are one with the Lord our God. Again 

 it is written, The Lord thy God is one Lord, whom 

 we are to love with all our heart, mind, soul, and 

 strength. But if so, all divine love is cut off from 

 the Son and Holy Ghost, unless they are that one 

 Lord our God, who is a jealous God, and will by no 

 means suffer any part of his worship to be paid to any- 

 other. 



According to this plain and natural way of thinking, 

 as we are baptised by one and the same solemn act 

 of worship, In the name of the Fat her 9 and of the Son, 

 and of the Hdy Ghost: so we ever after adore 'them, 

 without any degrees or inequeliiy of worship; which 

 indeed, as it is truly divine, can admit of no degrees or 

 inequality. Whereas they, who argue for an inequal- 

 ity in the Divine Persons, and for an inferiority of 

 nature in the Son and Holy Ghost to the Father, 

 necessarily involve themselves and all their adherents 

 in "endless uncertainty and confusion. For they can 

 never settle the different kinds and degrees of that 



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lower divin* worship, (a contra ic'ion in the very 

 terms) which is to be paid to the Son and the Holy 

 Ghost. They can never distinguish it with such ex- 

 actness, that it shall neither be the worship due to the 

 Supreme God, nor that honour, which is to be paid 

 to mere creatures, and varied according to their se- 

 veral dignities. 

 But to make it yet more clear, that the mind of 



