ORIGEN AND CELSUS. 
adored? Is not everything directed by God? Is 
not God’s providence over all? Angels, genii, 
heroes, have they not each their own law preseribed 
by God? are they not ministering spirits set over 
their several provinces according to their degree ? 
and why, if we adore God, should we not adore those 
who bear rule under Him ? 
No man, you say, can serve many masters, This 
is the language of sedition—of men who would 
divide themselves from the society of their fellows, 
and would carry God along with them. A. slave 
cannot serve a second master without wronging the 
first to whom he belongs. But God can suffer no 
wrong. God can lose nothing. The inferior spirits 
are not his rivals, that He can resent the respect 
which we pay to them. In them we worship only 
some attribute of Him from whom they hold authority, 
and in saying that one only is Lord you disobey and 
rebel against Him. Nor do you practise your own 
profession. You have a second Lord yourselves, a 
man who lived and died a few years ago; you 
pretend still that in God’s Son you still worship but 
one God; but this is a subtle contrivance that you 
may give the greıter glory to this Son. You say 
that in your ‘ Dialogus Ccelestis, ‘If the Son of 
Man is stronger than Cod and Lord of God, who else