Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…

Now in Adam there was an universal obliteration of Gods Holy Image out of himself, and all his posterity. Unto God therefore Himself we must have recourse to repair this Image again. But how can this be? The Apostle tells us, that He is an Inaccessible, an unapproachable God, no man can draw near him, but he will be licked up and devoured like the ^lstubble by the fire; and yet, if a man could come near him (as in some sense he is ^mnot far from every one of us) yet He is an ⁿInvisible God, no man can see Him, and live; no man can have a view of his face to new draw it again. We are all by sin come ^oshort of His Glory; as impossible it is for any man to become holy again as it is to see that which is invisible, or to approach unto that which is Inaccessible; except the Lord be pleased through some veil or other to exhibit His Image again unto us, and through some glass to let it shine upon us, we shall be everlastingly destitute of it. And this He hath been pleased to do through the ^pveil of Christs flesh, ^qGod was manifested in the flesh; in that flesh He was ^rmade visible, and we have an access into the Holyest of all through the veil, that is to say, Christs flesh; in that flesh He was made accessible. ⟨p. 418⟩By Him saith the Apostle we have an ^saccess unto the Father. He was the Image of the Invisible God. He that^t hath seen Him hath seen the Father. For as God was in him reconciling the World unto Himself, so was He in Him revealing Himself unto the World. No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son