Believe me that I
am in the Father, and the Father in me, or else believe me for the
very work's sake."
See, here, that both the words and works of the Lord Jesus were not
to show you, and so to call you back to the holiness we had lost,
but to give us visions of the perfections that are in the Father.
"He hath given us the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of
Jesus Christ." And hence it is that the apostle, in that brief
collection of the wonderful mystery of godliness, places this in the
front thereof: "God was manifest in the flesh"--was manifested in
and by the person of Christ, when in the flesh he lived among us;
manifest, I say, for this as one reason, that the pure in heart, who
long after nothing more, might see him. "I beseech thee," said
Moses, "show me thy glory." "And will God indeed dwell with men on
the earth?" saith Solomon.
Though Adam be called the image or similitude of God, yet but so as
that he was the shadow of a more excellent image. Adam was a type of
Christ, who only is the express image of his Father's person, and
the likeness of his excellent glory; for those things that were in
Adam were but of a human, but of a created substance; but those
things that were in Christ, of the same divine and eternal
excellency with the Father.
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