Fourthly, The Father is in Christ, by the communication of the fullness of the God-head. This the Scripture giveth a notable description of, Col. 2.9. For in him dwelleth all the God-head bodily. This place is worthy of a full consideration; for it doth not speak of the Fathers being in the Son, as the second Person, but of the Father, as God, in his humane Nature, and the end why the Apostle bringeth this, is to take off all men from running either to Philosophy, humane traditions, or Mosaical rites, because the God-head is in Christ bodily: The Apostles Argument is, Where there is a complete perfection and fullness, there needeth no additaments, but in Christ there is a complete fullness to all Evangelical purposes, and necessary matter to eternal salvation; and this is proved, because in Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the God-head, bodily; In Christ, that is, in his humane Nature; all the God-head, that is, all the whole Nature and Attributes of God, wisdom, righteousness, holiness, &c. Dwelleth, that is, abideth, continueth, Bodily, that is, personally, in opposition first to the legal expressions of Gods presence; as when God spake from between the Cherubims, as also in opposition to that efficacious presence and assistance in the Prophets, and such extraordinary holy men that he raised up; now God was in Christ transcendently to these, for he was in the humane Nature, so as to be made one Person with it, Filius Dei non assumpsit hominem personam, sed assumpsit hominem in personam; and thus the Father is in Christ, otherwise then in other creatures, and the mind of man is never able to comprehend sufficiently this mystery.
Fourthly, The Father is in Christ, by the communication of the fulnes of the God-head. This the Scripture giveth a notable description of, Col. 2.9. For in him dwelleth all the God-head bodily. This place is worthy of a full consideration; for it doth not speak of the Fathers being in the Son, as the second Person, but of the Father, as God, in his humane Nature, and the end why the Apostle bringeth this, is to take off all men from running either to Philosophy, humane traditions, or Mosaical rites, because the God-head is in Christ bodily: The Apostles Argument is, Where there is a compleat perfection and fulness, there needeth no additaments, but in Christ there is a compleat fulness to all Evangelical purposes, and necessary matter to eternal salvation; and this is proved, because in Christ dwelleth all the fulness of the God-head, bodily; In Christ, that is, in his humane Nature; all the God-head, that is, all the whole Nature and Attributes of God, wisdom, righteousness, holiness, &c. Dwelleth, that is, abideth, continueth, Bodily, that is, personally, in opposition first to the legal expressions of Gods presence; as when God spake from between the Cherubims, as also in opposition to that efficacious presence and assistance in the Prophets, and such extraordinary holy men that he raised up; now God was in Christ transcendently to these, for he was in the humane Nature, so as to be made one Person with it, Filius Dei non assumpsit hominem personam, sed assumpsit hominem in personam; and thus the Father is in Christ, otherwise then in other creatures, and the minde of man is never able to comprehend sufficiently this mystery.
