104. Thus Paul forbids me to worship a
creature, and admonishes me of my duty to serve Christ. It
follows, then, that Christ is not a created being. The Apostle
calls himself “Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,” Rom. i. 1. and this good servant, who acknowledges
his Lord, will likewise have us not worship that which is
created. How, then, could he have been himself a servant of
Christ, if he thought that Christ was a created person? Let these
heretics, then, cease either to worship Him Whom they call a created
being, or to call Him a creature, Whom they feign to worship, lest
under colour of being worshippers they fall into worse impiety.
For a domestic is worse than a foreign foe, and that these men should
use the Name of Christ to Christ’s dishonour increaseth their
guilt.