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after yt excellent, perfect Representation of Ct Deleneathan of his Person, Perfections, Arulleneses, graces, Abfues &c enaden ye aend Scriptures and drawn by ye ohelful, unwaving hand and Peral as ye holy ghost, after those divine desevnias nevitnal descriptions given of him there, as ye proper object of our Love and truth/trust, and all our gracious affections, and with a beene and as a Means to eneste them towards him, how needless and useless, and even profane and wicked are those false Representations of him, which alone [above?] by ye helps of yr outward senses and of ye inward Imaginations, by ye Hoakes as ant and Beauties as Nu have attempted to make and draw as him by Images & ye like, pretending hereby to deleneate him in various Characters and Cerumponees for ye creiting of ye affections and assisting of ye devotions. - tis a Reproach upon ye Scriptures as truth and ye irenst of ye holy god. nepdes, ye affections then enisted and devotions this onehandedly assisted are but wroat and wsnuget: and denented from ye Person of Ct to an dat and image infinitely unepenful and defective, a anity andwudh as iesfulling infinitely about as not Ct newsty is and enternity coming from his true desire Character for ye utmost that be so drawn and inhibited as only ny belong to a mere man^ is ye object of....imagination .ehenees Ct is God as well as Man; and ye Jrannd of his being ye object of a netyearus faith/truth