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The-excellency
of the
righteoufnef
e
of
SRn¿t
cation,
God
as
it
were,
but
nor
Gods
Image
;
if
fo
be that
a
man
trod
on
the
fand
of
the
Sea,
there
would not remaine
the
image
of
the man,
but only
the
foorf}eps
;
we
cannot
fiy (
the
man
be-
ing
gone)
that there
is
the image of
fuch
a
nun,
but
there
is
his
footiteps
;
So all
the manifeitations of
God
in
the world
in creation
and
providence, they (hew
forth
the foorfteps of
God,
that
God
hath
been
here,
all
the creation holds forth the
£
ootífeps
of
the molt
high, but when we
behold
a
Saint we
fee
the
glory
of
God,
there
we
behold the
face
of
God
;
as
in the
z
of
Genets, where the councell
was
call'd,
Come
let
as wake
man,
how
?
after our
£ootífeps, no, But
after
our
own
image
Now
grace
is
the renewing of this glorious Image
;
for
we
inuit
know
that this excellent peece of Gods Image
by mans
fall
was
all
defaced,
and
blurr°d,there
was
a
blacknelle
aiad
de-
formity upon this glorious excellency,
but
now
grace
is
a
re-
newing
Of
this
image againe
:
The
foul
it
reprefents
God
in a
lively way, the
image of
a
man
in
his
child
it
is
more lively
then
an
a
piece
of
tvood,'tis
po`fible
to
draw
it iii
fuch an
ex
cellency
and
feature, that
it
may
be every
way
like
the
man,
but yet
not
fo
like
a
mans image
as
is his
child
;;
grace
in
the
heart
is
the image
of
God
livelily
reprefented, God
may
fee
himfelf
there
as
a
father
fees
himfelf
in
the
face of
his
child
:
God
cannot fee
himfelf
fo in all
the world
as
in
a
Saint,if
fo
be.
God
would
fay,
where
(hall
I
behold
my
Image
;
if
he
went
tp
a&s
of providence,
he
might
fee his
footfleps,
if
he
went
to
works
of creation,
he
might
fee
his
power
and
wifdome,
but
furely when he goes
into the
heart
of
a
Saint,
there he
fees
his
Image
moil glorious
;
fairely
then,
grace
it
is
an
excellent
thing
;
The
prolatipe
of
this Image
was
in
Chrift without
meaiiire, he received
of
this
gracewithout
meafure, and we
from
his fullnefle
receive
even
of
this grace
,
grace
for
grace.
Fourthly, The
excellency
of
this righteoufneffe
it
appears.
in
this,
in
that it
is
the
very life
of
God
himfelfe,
a
man may
fee
his
image
b?!t
no:
hi
life, but'now grace
it
is
Gods
life
that
expreddiion
hints
io much
unto
us
that
we have in
4
Ephef,
18,
Having
the
underflgirdins darkned,bcing alienated
fro,
the
life