THE PREFACE HE Subject of the fol lowing Papers, is a Doctrine of the greatest Importance in Religi on; a Matter not to be treated of flightly and carelefly, as it were by accident only, after the manner of fuperficial controver fies about Words, or of particular occafional questions concerning the meaning of fingle ambiguous Texts; but which ought, A 2 when when difcourfed upon at all, to be examined thoroughly on all fides, by a serious study of the Whole Scripture, and by taking care that the Explication be confiftent with it felf in every part. I have, according to the Weight and Dignity of the Subject, confidered it throughout as carefully and diftinctly as I was able; and defire only,that the Reader,when he begins the Book,would perufe it All, and confider seriously every Part, and compare the Whole of what is here faid, with other Whole Schemes, before he paffes his judgment upon it. THE The Paffages wherein He is filed God with Tome peculiar high Titles, Epithets, or At- tributes; which, tho' Moft of them indeed not incommunicable, yet in the New Tefta- ment are generally, if not always, by way of The Paffages wherein it is declared, that All Prayers and Praises ought primarily to he offered to Him, and that every thing ought CHA P. II. |