and bi8Son !fefus Cbri[l. I. 'Ev cX.u~, .11fn him. 11. 61' cX.u'l'i1, By him. Jlf. 'e1s &.v-rdv, For him. :~-So in the Original; ''o, Ev ctinr.S ~?.:n'.&.J-ni 7:tt~- 7<t-rrlWTo7' f . ~eg.vlh If) -d I. [,,him, As the Exemplary Caufe; fo Come Schoolmen o old mterpreted tm',;;'"Y"''-n£ it : for it is not in him all the Creatures can be fai'd to be as in a Head, for that 0 ,\f'-n£ '!!, -n£ is the peculiar and proper Priviledg of Elect Meri and Angels that are Homo- ~~:,· ,:;:,;, geneal to him: He is a Lord to every Creature, but not an Head, therefore the '"'<;'"'"C'·d– exemplary caufe is intended. And this was one Reafon, among many others, '1~(:\."'· '~"' why God in his Decree, about what Creature the Second Perton lbould a!fume, :.,;:,_~~- d',;; pitch'd upon Man's Nature, rather than that of Angel•, becaufe Man's Nature ~ .;, d<n>v is the compendium of all, and fo fitted to be ( as in ChriO: it was) exalted the '(';~!"';. , 6 • Exemplar, the ?Te_qm·nnrov, the Pattern of the whole Creatton. The Poets feigned a piece out of every Creature to have been taken, to make up Man, the perfetl:ion ofthem all,in his Reafonable Soul,which is a Spirit that can fubfill ofit felf; lie agrees with Angels, in his Body, and the Lives thereof, Senfitive and Vegetative, with BeaO:s and Plants, 6-c. Now therefore God fet up ChriO: as the Pattern of all Perfefrion, (for fo that Humane Nature, united and quickncd by the God-head, muO: needs be even above the Angels rhemfelves, though having a Body, and more excellent than they ) and drew in fcattered Pieces, the feveral Perfetl:ions met in that Humane Nature in the reO: of the Creation from this Pattern; And in Man's Creation ( whofe Nature it was he was to a!fume) this feems to have been confidered by God, in that Speech then uttered, Let ,., JJ!a/ze Man accordi11g to 011r Image, which in Chrifl: as decreed to be God-Man, and in which, as fuch, he is !tiled, The Image of the Invijible God, as bath been lbewn, (which fome, both Antient and Modern, Divines have interpreted of ChriO:, as to be made Man, notwithO:anding A11jlin'• Objetl:ion ). Even as that Speech ufed when Man was created, [Man'""' made aLiving So11l J i' interpreted by the ApoO:Ie, I Cor. I 5· 45, &c. to have an Eye to Chrifl:, as the Type or Shadow hath to the Body, fo likewife that Speech uttered before concerning his Creation, Let m maf<s Man after our Image, that Man r~fers to whom God was to be united to, and is, as if God had C1id, Whom we in our Decree~ have fer up as the Pattern,and expre!feO: Image of the lnvifible God-bead, common to all Three Perfons, to the utmofl: Iivelinefs ordained to be fet out, in him who was fet our. Therefore the firfl: in Intention, and Decree, and therein before thisMan Adam, and all Things, and of whom this Man Adam is but a lbadow. !I. The fecond Phrafe is, $)' .Xuni, By hi11r aU Things were created ; fo EpheJ 3, 9· where (peaking of the Myfrery of the Gofpel it felf, ( whereof ChriO: was the great Founder, and apparent Author in all Mens Eyes ) be adds, bow the fame Chrifl: had alfo created all Thi11gs, he having been fome \vay the Infl:rument, as he is [ Chrifl: J God-Mart, anointed, of the Cmation, as well as actually df Redemption. And the toming of if in ihere; fo by a meer occafional Addition, ' A a impom 1
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