8o id aliud voces aní- mur, quarr Deum in cor- Pore humano hojjitantcm? Seneca. A gracious fpirit, frame of Gods creation betides. It is not as an Image , which hath onely the dead lineaments drawn, though there be fome beauty in :his ; but as the Image in a glaffe, wh ch pret`ents the motionas well as the lineaments : yea, and [nor onely .í.. but as he fonne that bears the image ofhisfather and this reprefents ttr life or as if a glaffe had lice in it and 10could enjoy tne fveern- fe, fae good of that image it reprefents unto it f; lf. This i p iris ä fuch a living glaffe of the bleffed God,that it enjoys the good and fweetníle of that image of God it hath in it Yea, one degree higher, it is called the very DivineNature, 2 Pet. 1.4. as it it were nothing erebut a 1parkle of the Deity it fell.. Seneca has a ftrong fpeech concerning mans foule , What can we callthe fou'e (layes h°) but God a. biding in our humanebodie r Ifa foule that hth onely naturall excellencies , come foneare God, how near then conies it tohicn,! when railed by thofe fpirituall and fupernaturall excellencies we have fpokeof. Yea , yet there is an higher degree then this; It is called the glory ofthe Lord,Rors. a. 23. yea,a higher de- gree
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