2. Representation: For an Image it serveth to make known and declare that thing whose Image it is: If light produce light, the light produced doth represent the light & glory producing; & the more perfect and immediate the production is, the more perfect is the resemblance; a lively expression of the pattern and exemplar. And this is the reason why the word (invisible) is added, because God who in his own Nature ⟨p. 32⟩is invisible, and incomprehensible to man, revealeth himself so far as is necessary to Salvation, to us by Christ: Visible things are known by their visible Images with more delight, but not with more accuracy. The Image is not necessary to know the thing; but here it is otherwise, we cannot know God but by Christ, Joh. 1.18. No man hath seen God at anytime, the only begotten son which is in the bosom of the father he hath declared him. God is invisible, and incomprehensible by any but Jesus Christ, who being his only Son, and one in essence with the Father, he doth perfectly know him, and reveal unto mankind all that they know of him. Thus you see what belongs to an Image.
2. Representation: For an Image it serveth to make known and declare that thing whose Image it is: If light produce light, the light produced doth represent the light & glory producing; & the more perfect and immediate the production is, the more perfect is the resemblance; a lively expression of the pattern and exemplar. And this is the reason why the word (invisible) is added, because God who in his own Nature ⟨p. 32⟩is invisible, and incomprehensible to man, revealeth himself so far as is necessary to Salvation, to us by Christ: Visible things are known by their visible Images with more delight, but not with more accuracie. The Image is not necessary to know the thing; but here it is otherwise, we cannot know God but by Christ, Ioh. 1.18. No man hath seen God at anytime, the onely begotten son which is in the bosom of the father he hath declared him. God is invisible, and incomprehensible by any but Jesus Christ, who being his onely Son, and one in essence with the Father, he doth perfectly know him, and reveal unto mankind all that they know of him. Thus you see what belongs to an Image.
