adumbration

If it be true, that there is a Firſt Being who has drawn or created all the reſt from nothing, man is truly his image; …. But an image, is but an image ſtill, and can be but an adumbration or ſhadow of the true perfect Being.

ADUMBRATION, [in Heraldry] an abſolute taking away of the Charge or Thing born, ſo that nothing of it remains but the bare Proportion of the out Lines.]

[W]here there is an obſcurity too deep for our Reaſon, 'tis good to ſit down with a deſcription, periphraſis, or adumbration; for by acquainting our reaſon how unable it is to diſplay the viſible and obvious effects of nature, it becomes more humble and ſubmiſſive unto the ſubtilties of faith: …

Of necessity a physical thing can be given only "one-sidedly;" and that signifies, not just incompletely or imperfectly in some sense or other, but precisely what presentation by adumbrations prescribes.