Part 167

properly belong to that [Auto-modernized] , and are, therefore, peculiarly Christian, and all the benefits and privileges we receive by it, or by virtue of it, with the whole of the honour and glory that arise to [Auto-modernized] God thereby, have all of them their formal nature and reason from their respect and relation to [Auto-modernized] the person of Christ; nor is he a Christian who is otherwise minded."

In the confirmation of this [Auto-modernized] it will appear what judgment ought to be passed on that inquiry -- which, after the uninterrupted profession of the catholic church for so many ages of a faith to [Auto-modernized] the contrary, is begun to be made by some amongst us -- namely, Of what use is the person of Christ in religion? For it proceeds on this supposition, and is determined accordingly -- that there is something in religion in which [Auto-modernized] the person of Christ is of no use at all; -- a vain imagination, and such as is destructive to [Auto-modernized] the whole real intercourse between God and man, by the one and only Mediator!

The respect which we have in all acts of religion to [Auto-modernized] the person of Christ may be reduced to [Auto-modernized] these four heads: I. Honour. II. Obedience. III. Conformity. IV. The use we make of him, for the attaining and receiving of all Gospel privileges -- all grace and glory. And to this [Auto-modernized] the whole of our religion, as it is Christian or evangelical, may be reduced.

I. The person of Christ is the object of divine honour and worship. The formal object and reason of this [Auto-modernized] is the divine nature, and its essential infinite excellencies. For they are nothing but that respect to [Auto-modernized] the Divine Being which is due to [Auto-modernized] it from all rational creatures, regulated by revelation, and enforced by divine operations. Wherefore the person o