...Christ himself was unknown :' This is the day appointed to reveal their works and their graces. Jesus is the ' brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person;' and all the sons and daughters of God shall then appear, as so many pictures of the blessed...

...our sins, we also mocked and struck the Prince of Life, and, as it were, spit in the face of him, who is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person. Our sins were present, and consequently shared in the impious rage and violence, which...

...lowJiaesg are aggrandized and brightened by every glorious and divine idea that enters into his character. He is the brightness of his Father's glory and the express image of his person, yet he humbled himself to the form ot a man, and to the likeness- of sinful flesh: He is...

...important respects. And, first, in regard to God. In Christ dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. He is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person. Though united with humanity, he necessarily possesses and displays all the perfections...

...exhibiting the ways in which the foregoing truth obtains our belief. We are taught that Jesus Christ is the "brightness of his father's glory and the express image of his person." This text alone will support the idea, that Jesus as an angel of peace, and the Messenger...

...Christ himself was unknown: This is the day appointed to reveal their works, and their graces. Jesus is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person ; Heb. i. 3. and all the sons and daughters of God •hall then appear as so many pictures...

...robbery to be equal with God." Would he say this of a mere creature? Again, he tells us that " Christ is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his Person." Finite cannot express infinite. When Thomas saw the Lord Jesus after his resurrection,...

...me, John xii. 45. He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father, chap. xiv. 9. And, saith the apostle, He is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person, 3 i - 7 Heb. i. 3. The Father has an infinitude of glory, and our Jesus is the brightness...

...suffered by such methods, this text is a most glaring example, which commonly runs thus when cited, " Who is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person." — And according to this reading, has been sustained an undoubted proof of eternal generation;...

...and eternal God. Otherwise, the terms in scripture would be false, and contradict themselves. Christ is the brightness of his father's glory and the express image of his person, and he bears up all things by his mighty hand ; therefore he is very God. And this is not...