227. To Thee now,
Almighty Father, do I direct my words with tears. I indeed have
readily called Thee inapproachable, incomprehensible, inestimable; but
I dared not say Thy Son was inferior to Thyself. For when I read
that He is the Brightness of Thy glory, and the Image of Thy
Person, Heb. i. 3. I fear lest,
in saying that the Image of Thy Person is inferior, I should seem to
say that Thy Person is inferior, of which the Son is the Image; for the
fulness of Thy Godhead is wholly in the Son. I have often read, I
freely believe, that Thou and Thy Son and the Holy Spirit are
boundless, unmeasurable, inestimable, ineffable. And therefore I
cannot appraise Thee so as to weigh Thee.