Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition…

(3.) There is not a likeness in a few things, but a complete and exact likeness, so Christ as the second person is called, Heb. 1.3. The express image of his person. There is not only likeness but equality. God cannot make a creature equal to himself, nor beget a Son unequal to himself.

(3.) There is not a likeness in a few things, but a compleat and exact likeness, so Christ as the second person is called, Heb. 1.3. The express image of his person. There is not onely likeness but equality. God cannot make a creature equal to himself, nor beget a Son unequal to himself.

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.