66 The Glory of the Gojpel. Secondly, Did we know or lhoula we have known God by his Image fiam t upon man, and now lhineing in the Law more than in all the Creatures elfe, ~r t i1an mman h1mfclf Without it; Turn your Eyes on Chnfi for he is fuch a man as is the head of men, 1 Cor. 11. ~· yea, and of Angels alfo, who are a part of the Church, Cot.1 .18. and therefore aman ofthofe tranfcendent Perfections that as he is mere man, that Image which Adam loft, the Angels yet wear and ~ount their glory, it lhines more bnghtly in him then in them all, it lhould have done Even as the Head contains more of the Beauty and Image of a man, hath mar~ of man 10 1t than all the Body. But yet Thirdly, He is the Son of God, and focond perfon, and therefore the exprefs [';'age and brightnefs at I: isFathers glory, the etfential fubftantiallmage of his Fatner,wh1ch tranfcends 10ilmtely more all other draughts of him than the Image ofa King in his Son begotten hke him, and in a Board or Tablet, But this Image, you will fay it is t?o. bright for us to behold it lhining in his firength, we b' tng as unable to behold it 10 h>m, as we were to fee hiS Father himfelt' who· dwels in light inaccellible,which no Eye can attain to. Therefore that yet we may fee 1t as mgh and as fully and to the utmoft that Creatures could; this God– head dwcls bod1ly in an human Nature, tha t fo lhining through the Lanthorn of his Flelh we might bd1old it: His Hu';'an Nature and Divme make up one perfon, and be,ng fo, are umted together m tne mgheft kmd·ofUmon that God can be to a Creature, and the neareft alld fullefi Communications follow always upon the HearefiUnion, To him therefore as man are Communicated thefe riches of glo– ry that are in the Godhead as nearly and fully as was pollible unto a Creature . and being thus Communicated, muft needs lhine forth in him to us to the utmofr · that they ever could unto Creatures. And therefore more clearly then if Milli– ons offeveral Worlds had beenCreated every day on purpofe to reveal God to us. God having fiamped upon his Son all his glory, that we might fee the glory of God in the lace of Jefus Chrifr, z. Cor, 4· 6. But yet Fourthly, This is not all whereby Chrift is made the Image of the in-· vifible God to us, for thus we might have feen the fulnefs of the Godhead lhine– ing in him though he had not come as a Redeemer and Mediator, and had acted nothing, done nothing in us or for us, but had been meerly fet up for us to look on and fee God in, as fuppofing him incarnate, not in relation to Redemption. Therefore further alfo and befides this he is made to us the Image of the invifible God in all thefe his works ofMediation which flow from hisPerfon, and in the ex– ecution of all thofe glorious Offices of King Priefi and Prophet, The fiory of which when it lhall be all fet and viewed together, makes up yet another kind of Image and Reprefentation of all God"s Attributes and glorious riches then lhine in his Perfon as alone in it felf confidered, or then doth lhine in the Angels or man at his firfi Creation; and as he himfelfbeing aMediator is become a midle Perfon between God and Man, fo the fiory ofthofe his worl<s of Mediation lhews forth and prefents us with a double Picture and Image of God, between them both there being a new and another edition of all God's Attributes in the fiory cf what he hath done, which infinitely tranfcends, and comes nearer to the life than all thofe Images which were or lhould have been fiampt upon the hearts, or appear– ed in the worl<S of men or Angels, a brighter, clearer imprellion of all in God, than fuch Tablets are capable of. And indeed comes fa near the life, tint not only in regard of his perfon, but alfo of thofe his works of Mediation, &c. he is called thofe Attributes in the Abftrac:t which appear lhining in them. Men and Angels in regard of God's Image fiamped on them, might have been called wife, but not the wifdom of God, but Chrifi, 1 Cor. I· 24• is called The Wifdom of God, andthe Power of God, which yet is not fpoken of him in regard of his pcrfon,as be is fubftantially and e!fentially both thefe,as all the refi. But as in his works he is Manifefiative. by way ofManifeftation to us all chefe; byreafon that in the f\ory of his lncarnation,Life,and Death,and Mediation,&c.all thcfc are ma· nifcf\ed. I nall thefc wlwn told and fet 0 ogether, there appears the greatefi depths of wifdom, t!l3t to the Creatures could be difcovered, which the knowledge of him
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