trem referuntur. Atq; ita decretum legimus in Cartha ginenfi tertia Synodo, canone 23, ut cùm ad altare affiftuur, Semper ad Patrem dirigatur oratio. Nimirum, quia tunc Chrifti corpus, five. homo Chriftus, offertur; ac veteris & cruenit Sacrificii memoria celebratur ; æquum eft ad Patrem, velut An&orem ac Principium, referri omnia: uti fummum imitemur Sacerdotem & Ponti ficem Chriftum dominum,qui tum omnia dicta factaq; jua' Patris ad honorem referre folebat, tum in illo poftremo facrificio tradidit femetipfum pro nobis oblationem & boftiam Deo in odorem fuavitatis. Sect. 2, cap. 9, 915.

thinks to draw any Argu ment, from the Church's hardly directing any of her publick Prayers to the Holy Spirit: For almost All Prayers are, by antient ufage, directed to the Father. And fo we find it decreed in the Third Council of Carthage, canon the 23d, that when the Priest ftands at the Altar, he should direct his Prayer Always to the Father. The Reafon is; becaufe the Body of Chrift, or the Man Chrift, being then offered; and the Memory of that antient and bloody Sacrifice, celebrated; it is but fit, that All should be referred to the Father, as the Original Author of All: That fo we may imitate. Christ our Lord and great High-Priest, who as at all other times he directed all bis words and actions to the glory of his Father, fo particularly in that laft Sacrifice delivered himself up to God for us an offering and oblation for a Sweet-fmelling favour.

To the fame purpose, the judicious Mr Mede, in the place before cited: To Us Chriftians (faith he) there is but One Sovereign God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we [is autor] to Him, (that is, To whom as Supreme, we are to direct All our Services ;). and but one Lord Jesus Chrift, by whom are all things which come from the Father to Us, and through whom alone we find Accefs unto Him. Difc. on 2 Pet. ii, 1.

And

And the Learned Bp Wake: [The Lords Prayer (faith he) teaches us that we should Pray to God ONLY, and to Him as our Father, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Comment. on Church Catech. pag. 130, 131. [The Meaning is not, that Prayers may not at all be offered to the Son; but that they must always ultimately be directed to God only, as our FA THER, through Christ.]

And moft fully, the Office for Ordaining of Priests, in the Exhortation to the Perfons to be ordained, thus expreffes the fame Notion :

[That you will continually pray To God the Father, By the Mediation of our only Saviour Jefus Chrift, for the heavenly affiftance of the Holy Ghost.]

§ XLV.

And upon the fame Account, whatever Honour is paid to the Son who redeemed, or to the Holy Spirit who fanctifies us, muft always be understood as tending finally to the Honour and Glory of the Father, by whofe good pleasure the Son redeemed, and the Holy Spirit fanctifies us.

See the Texts, No 450, 452,453, 463, 465, 469, 471, 474, 475, 476, 478, 485, 486, 497, 512, 514, 515, 800, 810, 811, 826, 837, 840, 895, 919, 926, 927, 934, 955, 956, 961, 964,971,975, 977, 98, 994. And N, 761, 811, 826, 837, 841, 849, 851, 863, 890, 945, 950, 975, 982.

And No 756995, 11481197.

See above, § 37, 43, 44; and below, § 46, 52.:
Notes

Notes on § 45.

That according to the good pleasure of the Invisible Father, (faith Irenæus), every knee hould bow to Jefus Christ our Lord and God and Saviour and King.

And the learned Bishop Bull: 'Tis evident (faith he) that all the Worship and Honour which we pay to Chrift, ought to redound to the Glory of God the Father; as St Paul Speaks in the 2d to the Philippians.

Ίνα χειςῷ Ἰησί των κυρίῳ ἢς ww, x) :w, x) owner, Bασιλά, και * ευδοκίαν το πατρὸς ἀοράτε πάν γόνυ κάμψη

lib. 1, cap.2.

Quin & cultum & honorem omnem quem Chrifto deferimus, es d'éEar de wales, in gloriam Dei Patris (ut loquitur Paulus Philipp. ii,) omninò redundare. Defenf. Sect. 2, c. 9, § 15.

But thefe paflages may be understood of Chrift, as Mediatour and Incarnate: Thofe which follow, are Spoken exprefly of his Divinity.

The Son (faith Hilary) bath nothing but what is Derivative; and the Greatnefs of the Honour of Him which is begotten, is to the Glory of Him which begar: There is no room therefore to object, that we derogate from the Majefty of the Futher; feeing that whatever Majesty we shall afcribe to the Son, must all redound to the magnifying of the Power Such Divinity and Majesty.

of Him, who begat a Son of

And the Learned Bp Certum eft, cultum &

Bull: 'Tis certain (faith he) that all the Honour and Worship, which we pay to him as he is the Son and derives his original from the Father, muft redound to the Father, and be referred ultimately to the Father, as the Fountain of Divinity.

+ Of This paffage, Again: The Antient Ca tholicks understood, that the Glory of the Father was manifefted by the Son; and that all the glory of the Son redounds to the Father, as the Fountain of Divinity.

And again Because (faith he) all the Honour of the Son, redounds to the Glory of God the Father, who begat him.

S XLVI.

For, the Great Oeconomy, or the Whole Difpenfation of God towards Mankind in Christ, confifts and terminates in This; that as all Authority and Power is originally in the Father, and from him derived to the Son, and exercised according to the Will of the

Father

Father by the Operation of the Son and by the Energy of the Holy Spirit; and all Communications from God to the Creature, are conveyed through the Interceffion of the Son, and by the Inspiration and Sanctification of the Holy Spirit: So on the contrary, All Returns from the Creature, of Prayers and Praifes, of Reconciliation and Obedience, of Honour and Duty to God; are made in and by the Guidance and Affiftance of the Holy Spirit, through the Mediation of the Son, to the Supreme Father and Author of All things.

See the Texts, N° 756.

1197.

995, and 1148.

See above, $37, 39, 44, 45; and beneath, § 52.

Notes on § 46.

Δια γδ δ καὶ ἐν πνεύματι τὰ
Távra i deòs nj oweshoato je
owxwv Siaquaárler contr.
Sabell.

Εις θεός ὁ πατὴρ, ἐφ' ἑαυτῷ
XI TO 'ETÌ TÚVTOV 1

For by the Son, and in the Spirit, (faith Athara fius) did God at first make, and ftill preferves all things. Again: There is One God, even the Father; who may be confidered ei-S 45 parvou, XH π ther in his own Perfon, Aid Tartar Sinnew• ỳ ∞ TES as being Above All; or πνεύματι δ, καὶ τὸ Ἐν ἅπασι manifefting himself in bissed to Noys in auTES EVERY EV• Son, as being Through contr. Arian. Orat. 3. All; or in his Spirit, as

working In All through his Word and by bis Spirit. And again: In the Di

ftribution of Gifts, (faith

Ἐν γδ τῇ τέτων διαιρέσει, ως Koeweiors yepes To AUTÒ Avd