ject of religious worship. And if there be any other Divine Person—any Supreme Being aside from, or out of, Jesus Christ—any other God besides Him, then He is not divine, and evidently, therefore, not God. He must then be a dependent, created, and finite being, since there can be but one independent, uncreated, and infinite Being.
This is very plain: Nothing can be plainer; and every one who possesses an ordinary share of understanding, and will exercise it, must see that there is ho possible escape from it. If Jesus Christ be really God, then he is the Supreme and only God, and there is no other God besides Him. And christians ought not to think of any other, or look to any other, or worship any other. But if there be God out of Jesus Christ, and besides Him, then He is not God, but merely a human, finite, recipient subject; and therefore to worship Him would be idolatry; for it is written, “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.”
There is not, and cannot be, any middle ground here. We must adopt one or the other of these conclusions. Nor can it be a matter of slight moment which we adopt, as will be shown in the sequel; for it is, as all must see, a central doctrine, and the whole doctrinal system of our religion must be affected by the opinion which we form upon this subject. If our view of this be wrong, then all our
