-1 .6-1 i\Jerlit .timu and Difro11rfes t-here fhon!d be no communication between God ,a'nd thd Creario11 .~ bm by .;md throm;h him alone. ·vv'hc:>refore \vhen tl1e holy Ghoh aligns r'bis glory ~1nto him, he fo delcribes him, as that-\\'e may ;tn.fcem hi5 n:igular rneerne!s for it; as that r~ Is the brigh~nejs of the Fatbers glcry, a.ncl the expreji iihar;_e of bis pertrm, upl10ldmg all things ~y the '2.vord :ot" his prnmr;~Jeb. r. ~· That ' be is ' the image of , the twuifible God, t,~efir:ff born of evt:ry creature, by : 1 };hom all thi11gs ?Vet e createcl, that are irt hraven, .ctnrl that are in the earth, vijible ancl invijible, 'lpht-- 'r!m• th iy be t ln:om.r, or d.?minions, or p?inctpaltties, er 1p'~n•ers:- ~lt -;hinRs ;11./~r_e created by h~m, mul for him, · (cinrl he ts before ad tmngs, ttnd hJ hz71f._all thmy,s ce.n - fl,fl,Coi. 1. t), 10, !7• ~8, I9.· Sn<;h an m'lea- ·j one and no other w~s meet to bear and uphold t~1is· g·iorv.· And the\ g!ory of his Perfon is 'filch ...as th"t it i'; the Bleffednets of all Creao rtfi·es tn cenrcr in this glory of his. Office. · · · 1.. · THIS is that · glory which God deflgned un1 _to his only Son incarnate; and it rives us a lirtle ;view in V~ rbe glory of ·that My fiery, the won- ·,derfn:l ereni'al defign of God to glorifir.hip1felf in ibe i1carnation of Chrrft. God would have l1is e rernal, his only begottC:1 Son to be inc:Jrnate) to take o \lf n·.lt'Jre-on him, to be made man. \\hat is hi<> Cl&Ggt~ ia this incomprehenfible work of his \.Vifllom, Uwft 9nd ·Potver? Indeed in the firft , p·!Jce, it W,\S for · the RNle'l1f.ptio 't1- of the Cht4rch, bv t~1e Sa·crifice of himf:·· lf and other aCes of his 1\1ediatinn. Bnt there is that which.is more g~ · ~~era! and comprehenflve,and wherein all the E:on ,. ~erns of 'the glory of God do center. · ~ And thi.s jjas .tb.at ·h_e mig-ht gather a/J things i11t0 O.'I'Je in him~· i:. . : . . . , · · , that
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