Two Discourses; I. on Prayer. II. on the Sacrament. to Which Are Added, a Sermon on the One Thing Needful - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1753. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Prayer as any other invisible Creature, because he could be no more capable of hearing, or answering, our Prayers, than Saints and Angels are, without a particular Revelation, and a supernatural Affijiance, from God, of which the Scripture fays not a Syllable: And, yet, the Scriptures plainly represent Christ as the ObjeB of Prayer', and relate the Prayers that the Saints offered to him. Thus, ABs vii. 59, 60. 'They Jtoned[Stephen calling upon God, and' faying, Lord ye/Hs receive my Spirit; and he kneeled jdown, and cried with a loud Voice, Lord lay not Itbis Sin to their Charge. In these Words St. 'Stephm. is- expressly said to pray unto JesusChrifti consequently, in the Opinion of that inspired Martyr, Jesus Christ is' the ObjeB of Prayer; and trulf 'God. As from his Divinity we can prove him to be a capable ObjeB of our Prayers, fo we ;may argue, backward, from his being a capable- ObjeB of our Prayers, to his being God; and if he be God, he must be the one God, since the Scriptures know of no other God,' but the one supreme-God; and of no other Worship, but what is due to the one supreme Gojs. . A subordinate Worstoip, to a subordinate God,' to a CreaTure God,' is a Doctrine of modern Invention. A Creature God, art omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent Creature, is the strangest'Creature that ever was heard of, as great a Stranger to common Sense, as it is1 to the Bible, and 3 much greater Mystery than the Doctrine of'the Trinity. -' So plain a Case as this is needs ho ' Authority p confirm it, but I shall cite a Passage in the * Sermons, Sermons, above mentioned, of Archbishop 77/lotson, not only as it is a Vindication of what I have advanced; but as it is a Vindication of that excellent Man from the Charge of Ar'wnism, after his having published fou...

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