ofGod and /;is Will. · ftntations ofhim of mens devifirrgs for the Reafons before mentioned, and declares that the honour that any :lhould thin~wo1lld thereby redound unto him, was not given unto .. him, but unto the Dev i l; fo that which he hath provided himfelf, unro his own holy Ends and Purpofes, is every way approved of him. For he will have all men honour' the Son even as they honour the Father; and fo, as---t;hat he who hc– noureth not th~ Son, honoureth not the Father, John 5· 23,25. , . This Image therefore is the Perfon of Chrifr; He is the Image of t he -Invijible God. This in the firil: place refpefrs the Divine Perfon abfolutely as he is the E:ffenti~Il Image of the .Father; which muil: briefly bed~clared. I. 'fhe Son is fometimes faid to be ev rm:LTeJ, in the Fa– ther, .and the Father in the Son. John \ 4· 1 o. Belie·veft thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me. This is ±rom the ?Jnity ·or famenefs of their Nature; for he and the Father are one, John 10. 30. Thence all thing,s that the Fa– therhathare his, chap. 16. I)· becaufe their Nature is one and the fame. With refpeCl: unto the Di¥ine Effence abfo– lutely confidered, wherein the Father is in the Son, and the Son in rhe Father, the one cannot be [aid to be the Image of the other. For he and the Father are one; and one and the fame thing, cannot be the Image of it felf in that wherein it is one. 2. The Son is faid not only to be fP IlxTe,t, in the Father, in the Unity of the fame Effence ; but alfo 7re)s 7fia.me.fit, · or Gc; v, with the F~zther, or with God in the diil:inCl:ion of . his Perfon. Joh. I. I. rhe Word was with God, and the fVord was God. The Word was God, in the Unity of the Divine Effence; and the Word was with God, in its difiinfr perfonal fubfiil:ence. The l¥ord, that is, the Perfon of the Son, as diil:infr from the Father, was with G;;d, or the Father. And in this refpecr he is the Ej[eHtiallmag,e ofthe Father, as he is called
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