in the Contri1Jance of t!Je PYork of rR._g,/emption 2:87 things are the Objects of an Holy Admiration, not curioufly to be enquiredinto:To intrude ourfelves into the things which, we have not feen, that is, which are not revealed in thofe concernments ofthem which arenot revealed, is not unto the advantage of Faith in our edification. But as unto what is declared of them, eithe~ immediately and directly, or by their Relation unto other. known Truths, we may medi– tate on them ·unto the improvement of Faith anc.l Love to– wards God. And fomethings are thus evident unto us in this ~fiey. . 1. We had by fin loft the Image of God, and thereby all gracious acceptance with him, all intere!l: in his Love and Fa– vour. In our recovery, as we have declared, this Image is again to be refiored unto us, or we are to be renewed into the likenefs ofGod. ,And there was a condecency unto Di· -vine Tf/ijdom, that this work ihould in a peculiar manner be effected by him who is the~[fentiallmage ofGod, that is, the Father. This as we have formerly :lhewed, was the ,Perfon of the Son. Receiving his perfonal fubiifience, and there– withal,the Divine Nature with all its efTential Properties from the Father by eternal generation, he was thereon the expreft. Image of his Perfon, and the brightnefs of his Glory. What– ever is in the Perfon of the Father, is in the Perfon of the Son, and being all received from the Father, he is his e1Ten– tial Image. And one end of }lis Incarnation was that he might be the Repre[entative Image ofGod unto us. WJiereas. therefore in the work of our recovery, the Image of God ihould be re!l:ored in us, there was a condecency that it fhould be d?ne by ~im who .was. th~ effential Image o£ God. For 1t confifis m the commumcatlon of the effects and. li!{enef~ of the fame Image Unto us, which. was elfentially m ~m~t · 2. We were by Nature the Sqn.r ofGod. We fio.od in re.· ; ' latio~
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