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Chapter X.
But that the honour which we pay to the Son of
God, as well as that which we render to God the Father, consists of an
upright course of life, is plainly taught us by the passage,
“Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law
dishonourest thou God?”4858
and also, “Of
how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who
hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of
the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath
done despite unto the Spirit of grace?”4859
For if he who transgresses the law
dishonours God by his transgression, and he who treads under foot the
word treads under foot the Son of God, it is evident that he who keeps
the law honours God, and that the worshipper of God is he whose life is
regulated by the principles and precepts of the divine word. Had
Celsus known who they are who are God’s people, and that they
alone are wise,—and who they are who are strangers to God, and
that these are all the wicked who have no desire to give themselves to
virtue, he would have considered before he gave expression to the
words, “How can he who honours any of those whom God acknowledges
as His own be displeasing to God, to whom they all
belong?”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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