47. Let them say what they feel or what they
think, when we read: “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,
and Him only shalt thou serve.” S. Matt. iv. 10. Do they think Christ should not be
worshipped, and that He ought not to be served? But if that woman
of Canaan who worshipped Him, S. Matt. xv. 25. merited to gain
what she asked for, and the Apostle Paul, who confessed himself to be
the servant of Christ in the very outset of his letters, merited to be
an Apostle “not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus
Christ;” Gal. i. 1. let them say
what they think should follow. Would they prefer to join with
Arius in a league of treachery, and so show, by denying Christ to be
the only true God, that
they
consider He should neither be worshipped nor served? Or would
they sooner go in company with Paul, who in serving and worshipping
Christ did not disown in word and heart the only true God, Whom he
acknowledged with dutiful service?