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An exposition upon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not only the text is…An exposition vpon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not onely the text is…
An exposition upon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not only the text is methodically analysed, and the sense of the words, by the help of writers, both ancient and modern is explained: but also, by doctrine and use, the intent of the holy Ghost is in every place more fully unfolded and urged. ... Being, the substance of near seven years week-days sermons, of N. Byfield, late one of the preachers for the city of Chester.An exposition vpon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not onely the text is methodically analysed, and the sence of the words, by the help of writers, both ancient and moderne is explayned: but also, by doctrine and vse, the intent of the holy Ghost is in euery place more fully vnfolded and vrged. ... Being, the substance of neare seuen yeeres weeke-dayes sermons, of N. Byfield, late one of the preachers for the citie of Chester.
London: printed by Edward for Nathaniel Butter, 1617
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1Image.] Our Redeemer resembles God by way of Image.
- 1Difference between Image and Similitude.Difference betweene Image and Similitude.
There is difference between the Image of a thing, and the Similitude of it. The Sun in the Firmament expresseth God by Similitude; for as there is but one Sun, so there is but one God: And as no man can look upon the Sun in his brightness; so no man can see God with mortal eyes, &c. But yet the Sun is not therefore Gods Image. Gods Image is in Man, and in Christ.
There is difference betweene the Image of a thing, and the Similitude of it. The Sunne in the Firmament expresseth God by Similitude; for as there is but one Sunne, so there is but one God: And as no man can looke vpon the Sunne in his brightnesse; so no man can see God with mortall eyes, &c. But yet the Sunne is not therefore Gods Image. Gods Image is in Man, and in Christ.
1Gods Image is in man three ways: First, by Creation; and so it is in all men, even worst men, in as much as there is in them, an aptitude to know and conceive of God, &c. Secondly, by Recreation; and so it is in holy men, that do actually and habitually know and conceive of God, &c. but this is unperfectly. Thirdly, by similitude of glory; and so the blessed in heaven conceive of, and resemble God, and that (in comparison with the two former) perfectly.