64 The Perfon of Chrifl the great ~prefentati-ve· . ' ca}led in this place, and Heb. I .2. and that becaufe he partakes ot. all the fame Divine Properties with the "Father. But although the Father on the other fide be partaker of all the ~{[entia! 'Divine Properties of the Son, yet is not he faiel to be the lmag,e of the Son , For this Property of an Image refpefrs .not the things themfelves, but the manner of the participation of them. Now the Son receives all from · the Father, and the Father nothing from the Son. \Vhatever belongs unto the Perfon of the Son, as the Perfon of the Son, he receives it all from the Father by Eternal9eneration; For as the Father hath life in him[elj; fo hath he given unto the Son, to have life in himfelf, John 5· 26. He is therefore the EJ!ential lmag,e of the Father, becaufe all the Properties of the ·Divine Nature are communicated unto him, together with Perfonality from the Father. · · 3· In his Incarnation the Son was made theReprefentative Imageof God unto us, as he was in his Perfon the e_[{ential Image ofthe Father by eternal Generation. The ln·vijible God whofe Nature and Divine Excellencies our Underfiandings can make no approach unto, cloth in him reprefent, exhibit, or make prefent unto our Faith and fpirimal fenfe, both him– fel fa nd all the glorious Excellencies ofhis Nature. Wherefore -our Lord Jefus, Chriil: the S.on of God may be confidered three waies. I. Meerly with refpefr unto his Divine Nature. This is one and the fame with that of the Father. In this refpefr the one is not the Image of the other, for both are the fame. . 2. With refi)efr unto his Divine Perfon as the Son of the Father; the only begotten, the eternal Son of God.. So he receives as his Perjonal.,ity, [o all Divine Excellenctes from ·the Father; fo he is the ~f{ential lmag,e of the Fathers P:rfon. 3· As he tovk our Nature upon him ; or in the Aifurnpt10n of our
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