ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΕΩ. To workin; or to pay honour and refpect to fuperiors, &c.

This word is applied to GoD chiefly*, and with fupreme honour; as he, and he alone is the highest object of adoration.

Chrift himself tells Satan, who tempted him (Chrift) to worship him, Mat. iv. 20. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only fhalt thou ferve. See alfo Luke iv. 8.

N. B. Chrift owned it to be his duty to worship GOD alone, and no inferior being, with the highest acts of honour and adoration. Who that God was, Christ himself plainly and expressly tells us, in that famous paffage in St. John's gofpel, John iv. 23. where he informs the Samaritan woman, that th true worshipper fhould worship the Father in fpirit and in truth, for the Father feeketh fuch to worship him: or requires fuch, and fuch only, to worship him.

In the Revelations there are feveral paffages where this word is used to exprefs the worship paid to GOD the Father. When the twenty-four elders

*This word is fometimes ufed to exprefs civil re Spect, and no more, to Chrift, and others alfo, Mat. viii. 2. ix. 18. xv. 25 to a mafter, or lord, by a fervant, xviii. 26. To St. Peter by Cornelius, A&s x. 25. Rev. iii. 9. In the verfion of the LXX often. Gen. xxiii. 7. 12. Abraham bowed to the people of the land. Gen. xxvii. 29. xxxiii. 3, 6, 7. xlii. 6. & alibi fæpe.

worshipped

worshipped him who fat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, chap. xix. 4. And many other places.

1. Chrift in no text requires his difciples to worfhip himself with fupreme honours.

2. Chrift himself worshipped his GOD and Father with fupreme honours, as in the many texts forecited.

3. Chrift's difciples were taught by Christ himfelf to worship God the Father only.

4. The twenty-four elders in the Revelations wor fhipped God the Father only.

AOEA, and AOEAZN, glory, to glorify. GOD the highest and only object of glory in the New Teftament.

Mat. v. 16. That they may glorify your Father, which is in heaven.

vi. 13. For thine, O Father, who art in hea van, is the kingdom, the power, and the glory.

ix. 8. When Jefus Chrift had healed the man fick of the palfy, the multitude wondered, and glorified GOD, who had given fuch power to men,

xv. 31. The multitude feeing the dumb to Speak, the lame to walk, and the blind to fee, wondered, and glorified the GOD of Ifrael.

Mark ii. 12. They all glorified GOD. See Luke v. 25, 26.

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Luke ii. 13, 14. A multitude of the heavenly hoft are reprefented as praifing GOD, and faying, Glory be to GOD in the highest.

Luke ii. 20. The fhepherds glorified and praised GOD;vii. 16. and all glorified GoD (Chrift having raifed the dead) faying, a great prophet is rifen up among us.

GOD.

-xiii. 13. She was made ftraight, and glorified

xvii. 15. And one of them (the ten lepers) that was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified GOD.

xvii. 18. Christ complained, that none of the ten lepers gave glory to GOD, but one stranger : Chrift did not claim that glory to himself.

xviii. 43. The blind man who received his fight followed Chrift, but glorified GOD: and all the people who faw it, gave praife to GOD.

xix. 37, 38. As Jefus was defcending from the mount of Olives, a multitude of his difciples began to praise God with a loud voice for the works. which they had feen; faying, Bleffed is the king that cometh in the name of the Lord. peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.

John i. 14. St. John defcribes the glory of Chrift as the glory of the only-begotten, which (glory) was from the Father. v. 44. The glory from the one GOD. Or, as St. Peter, 1 epift. i. 21. GOD who raifed him (Chrift) from the dead and gave him glory. 2 epift.

2 epift. i. 17. Which honour and glory Chrift received from God the Father.

viii. 54. Jefus faid of himself these remarkable words: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who glorifieth me, of whom fay, that he is your GOD.

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O Father,

John,xii, 27, 28. Jefus, praying to his Father, faid, O Father, fave me from this hour. glorify thy name.

xiii. 31. 32.

Now hath the Son of man been glorified, and God has been glorified by him; that is, by Chrift: and he adds, If God hath been glorified by him, that is, by the fon of man, God will of, or by himself, glorify him, that is, the son of man.

--XV. 8. In this my Father is glorified, that ye bear much fruit.

-xvii. Chrift in his prayer to his Father, ver. i. whom he files the true GOD, ver. 3. adds, ver. 4. I have glorified thee, (O Father,) on earth;. I have finished the work which thou, (O Father)

gaveft me to do.

Rom. xv. 5, 6. St. Paul wifhes, that the GOD of all patience would grant the Romans to be likeminded that they might with one mind, and one mouth, glorify GoD, even the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift.

1 Cor. vi. 20. Glorify GOD with your body, and your fpirit, which are God's.

1 Pet. iv. 11. St. Peter exhorts, that GOD in all things may be glorified by, or through, Jefus Chrift.

See ver. 16.

Heb. v. 5. Chrift glorified not himself to be made an high-prieft--but he who faid unto him, Thou art my Son.

Rev. xv.

St. John, having, ver. 3. mentioned fome of God's peculiar and appropriate titles, adds, ver. 4. Who fhall not fear and glorify thee, O Lord?

From the foregoing texts these important truths are most evident, viz.

1. That Jefus Chrift taught his difciples to glorify, or give glory to his Father, whom he ftiles, the only true GOD, and he glorified that God himfelf.

2. That Jefus Chrift fought not his own glory, which, he exprefsly fays, was nothing; but the glory of him that fent him; that is, GOD the Fa

ther.

3. That Jefus Chrift himself received honour and glory from God the Father; and had not that glory originally in himself, which God gave him, and for which he prayed to the Father, whom he ftiles his GOD.

4. That Jefus Christ having cured the blind, and the paralytic, &c. the multitude, who faw his

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