420 Waycs wherein God reveals himfelf to the Eule. Image of the perfon of God, and therefore Chrif} faith, That no man can know the Father, but they mull doe it by bin J.oh: 14. 6. No man cometh unto the Father but by me; If you had l¿sowne me,you fhould have knoarne the Father alto, and from henceforth yeknow him and have fenne him : There is no know -. ledge of the Father but it is by Jefus Chrif}, by the.under- !landing of Jefus Çhrií}. No man knows the Father lave' the Son, and he to whomfoever the Son will reveale him, Collot: z. 3. In him are hid all the treafures of wi f loure a od knowledge :: and ver: 9. For in him dwelleth ail the fullnefje of the god -head Fa' - dily. Avery !}range expretlion, it would not have befeem'd, the mouth-of any nan,nonor befeenn'd any Angel ta have had fuch an expreffion as this, In him dwelleth all the fftllneffe of the God -head bodily ; it is in Chrill. The Glory of God app .ires .,r Chrill, if we may make a comparifon of low things wich. high ; As now, you cannot look u;:on the Sun in its Glory, as in, the Firmament , but when the Sun chines upon the water, there you may fee the lutter of the Sun ; fo. take God as in himfelfe confidered, as infinite Creator of all things ; -as we are herein this world our eyes doe dazell to.b hold Gods Er- fence, we cannot behold it, or not able to exprefie it at leaf}, butin Jefus Chrill we corne neeref} to the beholding of God, in Jefus atilt as God -man, there we may corne to li:hold very much of the Glory, yea of the face of God ; and there- fore you find that in the Gaped we are Paid to behold God with open face, x Cor: 3. 18. But we all with open face be-, holding as in a Glale the Glory of the Lord. He fpeakes of it in way of dìttin&ion from the Law, we could underf}and but lit - tle of God then : And then in. eed, in the old Teliament we find fuch an.exprel {ion as this No man can fee God and live Bait here in the new Tefiament you find fuch an exprel1îon, that we all with open face beholding as in a Glaffe the Glory of the Lord'; with open.face , not needing a rule as Mofes had, but with open face we behold the Glory of Cod ; but 'tis as in a,Cilallè ; The Word is one Glatie, the 0r1nances are ano- ther glafle,and then the creatures which is the t iickeft gl:iffe There's the Word, the Ordinances, the Saints, our ovine Spi- rits,,
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