r. Ù T H Y2¡ READ IRS, And more paiticularly to the Inhabitants' of the City of CiL SGOpg TH E Microcofm, or little World Mán a notable, curious compend and abridg- ment (as it were) of the larger one, and the great mafler-piece of all the vifible works of G O D, was, when he came from under the hand of the omnipotent Creator in the first edition, a little model and reprefentation of the divine per- feEions ; having impreffed on him that blefi'ed and beautiful, that amiable and admirable conformity to the image and likenefs of GOD, wherein codified the pre= heminency of his nature above that of all other crea- tures in the vifible or fublunary world ; being one of the greateft excellencies that a created nature is capable of, and a clearer ray of divine Majefty, than his domi-. fiion over the other creatures ; and which only made him capable of the enjoyment of God, as being that which affimilated to him, and brought him to the nare- cft approaches to glory. All the faculties and powers of his foul carried this glorious chara&er vively ingraven on them r His body alfó had fomewhat of. the fame image Ramped on it, tho' not in refpe& of its figure and fhape, or natural ufe, but, as an eflential part of his nature, it was interefled therein by a participation of original, righteoufnefs : For it was Jman's perfon that was made holy. The his foul was the firft proper fubje& of that con- created habit, and principle of hounds; yet his body (as I laid) as an effential part of his nature, did participate thereof, by a peculiar communication of that holinefs to it, as far as it was to be influential on moral.. operations ; and hereby were the parts and. members of his body," in that flate of innocency and integrity's, geld inailrt mennts 4nd fervants unto righteoufrtefs ánd
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