The Prefaee. . . For tbe Apoflle Jay!, that the Son is the bnage of tl;~ Fa~ ther. J;Vherefore let him Jhine on us with l;is Image ; tl;at is, caufe his Son, zv!Jic!J .is" his' Image, to jhine upon us, tb)at he may illun2inate us.; for the .Light of the Father cmd of the Son are the fame. ·. Chrifl: being the . Image of God, the face of God, in him is God repreiented unto us, and through him a,re aU faving.benefits com~ . rnunicated unto them that believe~ Eufebius ·alfo fpeaks often unto this purpofe; as. 'Demon. B-uangel. lib. 4· cap. 2. . co:nv· ci,J'TWs of xpnOJ.fvo} ~ "'), IV C_ \ I ~ \ ' I C "}\ N ) ..,n01'1.0')!11Y'nS, rJCOV ·')tVWTllJ.' t.!.JJTOV ~OCIVOUOZV' (()) lXII rrw; et vex, - ' ' ' I C_l I :1 "' N I \ ' I ~e!P}~, 'fj ocmeJVO'f1TI! rJC07l1TOS p.9VOV fV dJJ'"ITIJ cpeeJVTct.. 'T11V EtX-(()VOC, J'i ilv ~ ~dv 11) rre ~..u-rdv ~ /l.e')t~' rf 7reJ5 rrd 7rfW'TCv ~op.glwt:nws Aism: Wherefore tl1e holy Oracles fpeaking tl;eologically, or teaching Di:vine things_, do ·rig!Jtly call him God begotten .(of tl;e Father} as l;e 1Pho alone hears. in himfe{f the Image of the ineffable and inconcei1Jable Deity& Wherefore he both u,. and is called God, becaufe af his being the charaEter, ftmili;; tude or Image of him "PJho is the fttft. The Divine Perfo~ nality of Chrifl: conflils in this, that the whole Di– vine Nature being communicated unto, hin1 by eter– nal Generation, he is the Image of God, even the Fad ther, by \Vhom he is reprefentedunto, us. See the fame: Book, chap. 7· to the fame purpofe. A1fo De Ecclefiaft~· Theol. contra· 11arcell. lib. 2 • cap. 1 7. Clemens abounds much in the affinnation of this rrut~ concerning the. Pe!fon ~f ChriJl,. and we may. ye;
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