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24.
Eph
jans,
Chap.
4.
537
cloathes, think
of
putting off your old corruptions
;
putting on
our
cloaths, think
of
getting the white raiment
of
Gods
grace to
cover
our
nakedneffe.
The
fecond thing
to
be marked
is
:
That
God
himfelfe
is
the
pattern
Do¿i.
after which this
new
man
in
us is-framed,
even the
divine
nature of
'the
F4-
Gads
the
pat
-
ther,
Senile
and
holy
Ghefl; as the
[ampler which
God
Both look on
in the
rem
tu
the
4W
renewing
of
us.
For
we
are
reftored
in
Chrift to that
in
fubftance which
wehad
in
creation
:
now God
created as
after
his own
image,
Gen.1.27.
Since mans fallwe are
begotten not to Gods
image,
but after the
i-
mage
ofthe
corrupted
Adam: Adam
begat
a
Son
in
his
owne
image,
Gen.
3.r.Now
therefore when
God doth
revue us, he
doth,
according
to
his
owne image, create
in us a
new creature,
a
divine
quality,
and fo
make
us
conformable to
him.
For the more
diftin& conceiving
how
Thwgsare
di-
verAy arrer
we
are
according
ro
Gods image reftored;We mull
know,athing
may
Gods;mae.
be fo after
the
image
of
another,
as
equally to partake
in
the
fame
na-
ture
with
him after
whom
he is
framed:
Thus
formes are
begotten
ac-
cording
to the
image
of
Parents
, thus
Chrift
is
the image
of
his Fa-
ther.
Secondly, things
are according
to
this or that
which doe reprefent
them,though
they
are
not
of
like
nature ;
thus
is
the
Kings picture
in
money,
feales,
&c.
and thus
the
Creature
is
after the image
of
God.
Now
this
is
either generall,or
fpeciall:
Generally
all
the Creatures
arc
according to
God,
he
had no
other
fampler after
which
he fhould cre-
ate
the world
then himfelfe.
And
if
we were
good Clerks
to reade,
e-
very hearb hath the name
of
God written
in
it.The
more
fpeciall kind
PÏU
¡rem9ue
is
proper to Angels
and men,
who
fo
reprefent
the
divine nature, as
beba
that
they imitate the
vertues
oftheir
heavenly
Father.
Now
the
ufe
of
this dodtrinc
is,
1.
To
confute thofe
that
have
y
e.
made the Sonne
of
God
as
to
be incarnate,the image after which man
Tic
image
of
was Created; for the text
faith, not after
the
Son
of
God,
or after the
ter
which
we
humane nature
of
Chrift,
but
after
God,
the
effence
common to the
arc created is
Father,Sonne
and
holy
Ghoft,
and
therefore
in
Genefis,it
isfaid,
Let
us
God
ncarnate
make
man after
our
image.
This doth
let
us fee,
and
provoke
us
with
thankfulneffe
to
acknow-
Yfe
2.
ledge
what
an
excellent priviledge
we have:
Gen.
1.27. this
is
redou-
bled,Ged
created
man
after
bic
image, and he
goeth over
it
againe, in
tie
image
of
God created
be
him
:
And truly it
is
no fmall favour, when
he
might
have made
us
toades:
who
gave
ought
fidi
to
him,
why
he fhould
have this benefit beftogred
on him
!
Rom.
,
x.35.
It
mull provoke
us
to
love this new creature, to
feek
after this
re-
pfe
newing
of
our nature: when the
Devill told
our firft
parents,they
fhould be like
God,
they
lifted
to it
to
their
deftruEtion, much more
mull we
liften
to
this, unto
our falvation.
Seeing
Gods
image
is
on
us,
we.mutt walk
as
becommeth
a
divine Vfe4.
generation,
for
if
this fhould move
us
to
all godlinefle,
that
the
glori-
ous
Name
of.
God
is
called
ontes,how much
more fhould this
move
us,
ipe.r.r.
that
this image
of
God
is
engraven in our foules
a
this shouldmake
Aaa3
us