1 j 4 Meditatio11s aFfl Dl[cour/es . - I , _r: THE ~vie:» w~ich we_ h~ve o:r the glory of Chnft by Faith u1th1s world, ts ob(cure, dark, in· evident, reflexi'Ve. So the A poftle declares, 1 Cor: I 3· I 1.. NouJ'Jve (ee through a glafs darkly j, iCT~-u~' 1ed~ ctlvt')lp.ct.1l. Through or by a glafs in a Riddle, a parable, _a dark fayitig. There is a double figu- ,.·ati·ve Limitation put upon our view of the glory of Chi'ift , taken from the two ways of our perceptior1 of what we appr~hem1~ namely, the fight of things, and the hearing ot . words. . _ I THE firft is, tnat <Ne_ ha·ve this view not dire8ly but reflexively and by way oCa Reprefentation, as in a Gl'afs.For I take the glafs het t,not to be Optical or a pr6fpective w~ich helJ?s ihe fight, but a'}pecu~ lmn, or a glafs Whtch reflects an h:nage of What - We ,do behold, It is a fight like· that which we ha\"e of a man ih a: glafs, when we fee not his pe-r(dn or fubftance, but an . Image or- Repre· f~ntaeiort ofthemon1y~ Which is imperfect. - THE fhadow or image of this glory of Chrift is draw'n in th_e gofpel, and therein we behold it as the likenefs or a man repre!ented unto us ii1 a . gl'afs ; and altho it be obfcure and imperfect in ~bmpatifort of his oWn real, ft1bftantial glory, which is·tne obje·a of vifion in he·aven; yet is it tne only Image and' :Repre{entation of himfelf, wlilcli Ire ha rh left, and' given UntO us in this world. That woful curfed h'fvention of framing Images of fiim out of ftocks and ftones however· adorned, or Reprefentations of him by the Art of painting~ are· fo' far from prefenting unto the minds ofmen airy 'thing of his real glory' that nothing can be' more· effectual to divert their Thoughts and Pip- . J?reheniions;
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