374- Chainof7 rinciples. Aph. 5. intelligent as God is . 'bedded, mans blood, by man hall his blood be find, o"'` for in the image ofGodmade he man. And James 3,9, again in 'fames, Therewith curie we men î hick are made after the ¡militude rf God. We read of the Emperour Theodoli Sze heodor. that having exacted a new tribute hiÏh1 L.S.c.z" from the people of Antioch , there a. rote a commotion in which the peo- ple broke down the Statue of the Em. preis Placilla his late wife. He in a rage Pent his Forces againfl the city to lack it. One Macedoniws a Monk inter- ceded thus. If the Emperour be fo much and fo juftly offended that the image of his wife was fo defaced, fhall not the kingof heaven (laid the Monk) be angry at him if he íh.all deliberatelydefaceand break the image of God in ló many men as are like to perifh in this Maffacre. What a vafl difference is there betwixt reafonable creatures, and that brazen image ? we for that image are eafily able to fet up one hundred but the Emperour with all
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