Part 171

- the ascribing to [Auto-modernized] creatures anything that is proper and peculiar to [Auto-modernized] God, any divine excellency. And we do not honour God the Father with one kind of honour, and the Son with another. That were not to honour the Son kathos, "as" we honour the Father, but in a way infinitely different from it.

[2.] In the same manner, with the same faith, love, reverence, and obedience, always, in all things, in all acts and duties of religion whatever.

This distinct honour is to be given to [Auto-modernized] the person of the Son by virtue of this command of the Father, though originally on the account of his oneness in nature with the Father. And our duty in this [Auto-modernized] is pressed with the highest enforcement; he that honours not the Son, honours not the Father. He who denies [Auto-modernized] the Son (in this [Auto-modernized] ) "has [Auto-modernized] not the Father; [but he that acknowledges [Auto-modernized] the Son, has [Auto-modernized] the Father also,]" 1 John 2:23 "And this is the record, that God has [Auto-modernized] given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son. He that has [Auto-modernized] the Son, has [Auto-modernized] life; and he that has [Auto-modernized] not the Son of God has [Auto-modernized] not life," 1 John 5:11-12 . If we are wanting in this [Auto-modernized] , whatever we pretend, we do not worship nor honour God at all.

And there is reason to give this caution -- reason to fear that this great fundamental principle of our religion is, if not disbelieved, yet not much attended to [Auto-modernized] in the world. Many, who profess a respect to [Auto-modernized] the Divine Being and the worship of that [Auto-modernized] , seem to have little regard to [Auto-modernized] the person of the Son in all their religion; for although they may admit of a cus