,, 68 The Perfon of Cl.wift the great ~prefentatille revealed and declared. And in its proper ufe; and unto its proper End it isperfect and mofi fufficient.It is ?coy@-. rr~ 8&~, the Word of God; Howbeit it is not i\oy~ ~01wS'-As, the inter– nal effential Word ofGod, but i\oyos 7re_pcpoe;'i(9s, the e xter– nal word fpoken by him. It is. not therefOre, nor can be the Image of God, either effential or Reprefentative, but is the Re– velation and Declaration ofit into us, without which we can know nothing of it. Chrifi: is the I,mage of the Invifible God, the exprefs Image of the Perfon of the Father. And the principal End of the whole Scripture, efpecally of the Gojjel, is to declare him fo to be, and how lie is fo. What God promifed by hisPro– phets in tqe holy Scriptures, concerning his Son Jefus Chrifi; ' that is fully declared in the Gofpel, Rom, r. I, 2, ), 4The Gofpel is the declaration ofChrifi as the Power of God, and the Wifdom ofGod, I Cor. 1.1. 5, 24- Or an evident Reprefenta· tion of God in his Perfon and Mediation unto us, Gal. 3· 1. Wherefore three things are herein to be conftdered. · I. O/;jeflum reale & formale fidei ; the real formal ObjeB: of our Faith in this matter. This is the Perfon of Chnfi the Son of God incarnate, the Reprefentative Image of the Glory of God unto ·us; as ih the Tefiimonies . infifted on. 2. Medium re·velans, or lumen deferens; The means of its .Revelation, or the O/;jec?ive Light whereby the perception and knowledge ofit is conveyed unto our minds. This is the Gofpel; compared unto a Glafs becaufe of d1e profpeB: which we have ofthe lma;se of God therein, 1Cor. 3· 18. But Without it, by any other means, and not by it,we can behold nothing of this Image ofGod. ) · Lumen prteparans, elevans, difponens Su/;jeflum. The lnternil light of the mind in the ·faving Illumination of the Holy Spirir enabling us by that means, ·and in the ufe of it, . Spir:tually ·
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