APrmtnxx. Gd1 anti visible. In Christ as man united to the second person, there is a resultance, au edition of the godhead in all the perfectionsof it. He is the " express image or engraven image; H.eb. i. 4. The shine, the brightness of his Father's glory ;" as the beams of the sun are to the body of the sun, so is Christ Cod's image; and this similitude the apístle there useth and applies it to him as he was man, namely, as he was appointed heir rf all ; winch phrase as he is merely the second person might be used of hi F11 : Thus Beza, Cameron, and others have understood it. This image is such a system or fulness of perfections really inherent and appertaining unto the manhood, by virtue of that its union with the divine nature ; as although infinitely conning short of the attributes that are essential to the godhead, yet is the com- pletes) image of them, and such as no mere creature is capable of. This in general may be made out of that parenthesis ; iu John i. 14. And we beheld his glory, the glory. as of the only begotten Son of God. Page 105.. To give twoor three instances of some of these perfections peculiarly, and incommunicably dwelling in the human natureof Christ' aswistforn, power, independency and sovereignty. 1. There is a wisdom in Christ's human nature which is so high an intimation of the attribute of wisdom in God, as no crea- ture, nor all creatures could reach to, nor have attained ; and therefore they, though they he called wise, yet not wisdom, as Christ God-man is called ; 1 Cor. i. 24. And the reasonwiry so transcendent a wisdom is in him as man is given ; Col. ii. 3. In Christ are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge : Not objectively only, but subjectively also, as whose knowledge in himself inherent contains in it all treasures of wisdom. Now the reason of all this fulness of wisdom iu Christ is there given, verse 9. that in him dwells the fulness, of the godhead bodily. Christ is not omniscient as God is, but it is a similitudinary omnicience, as Zanchy calls it, an image of God's otnniscicncy. God's knowledge extends itself not only to all that is made or done, but to all that he can make or do ; wlticlt is an infinity. Christ's human nature, now glorified, knows all that God batir done or meant to do. It had, by virtue of its union with the divine nature, a right to know both things past, present, and to come ; and so it is in a sense a kind of omuiscieuey, incotntnukri- cable to any other. 2. 'The same holds in his power. It is not equal withGod's: Yet there is a similitudinary omnipotence in Christ's human na- ture, both in that be can do whatsoever be will, his will agreeing with God's in every thing, and in that all that God will ever pitch upon to be done he is an instrument of ; Mat. xxviii. is. All the businesses of the world run through his hands and his head : and therefore Ire is ¢ailed the power of Gad; 1 Cor. i. 21. and the armof the Lord ; js. 1. John v. 19, 20. The Son can du nothing of himself, but
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