The Nattire dnd'N~eefjity if Regen~ration : fuch natural Ad:i9ns; ,.hut 11e harh ~on~ them.i~ a'S,tare of tJ~rtgromrcy, 'and .. th,erefore .,.chey fiand all 'upon rh~ Account fo.r fa many thou~~\~ Sins: Nay} he harh pray'd fo ofren~ and'heard fo ~fren, made fo many Prayers and heard fo many Serrp.ons, and done, many QOOd Works.,, but yet all this wl~ilo he was i!l an unconvcrced Eftat~; thefe .. ~re rherefor~ fer down. ii;l G.qd's Day-Book in tlack, and they arc regtilred among rhofe Sms rhac he muil give an Account for ; nor for the Subftartce of the At1~o,ns themfelv:es, but becaufe rhey conie ".. , ·-rr?m 1'6lten_ PrinciP.les,that defile t-he befi A8:ions 1-}e can perform. His Eacin · ,~·~:·, + . aS. well. ~s his Glu~tO~y, hi~ Drinking, as w_ell as his Dr~n~ennefs, his Converre; ' .... ; Negotiati-onl ~rid 'traffickmg,.as '"ell9s h1s Covctoufncfs, ::mdino.rdinateLove ~ of thC WOJ:ld~ _ arc allfetdown, ~ ~nd reckon'<! by God for Sins, and fuch Sins as ~·~ne rhuft re1:ke:n for with God. . ... ' Now f "ijifak norfue(e things to'difc.ourage any,that may,.fufpec1 them- .... f~rYcs' to be m an unconvencd Effate, from the Performance either of die , Duties of Religion, or eh~ neceffary a_nd civil Aff~irs of this Life; you cannot - 'Poffibly. fit f\i\\ and do nothing, your .:rhoughts will be workini;; or if you do fltflih and do nothing, yer your rdlenefs wil,l '· be a Sin: Bur I fpeak rhis '"" 'Only eo the\v the ab(!)lutc Ncceffiry;,of ~egmeration i ,fOr without rhis inward Principle of Grace, no Action, how mofal, how fpectOus, how religious or neceifary' foe;;er, but will be catalogued down in God's D:~y-Book among the Nhmber of Men's Sins. · 71x!m4gt . 3·" Having rlow coDfider'd the Terminum . a fjUO, from which WC pafs to this fe:~~tt_;~ great Chau.gc..! let us rtO\Y confider what it is that we acqui're .b;y rhe Te,rm to &n{ts ;, "Which we p:-!ts ; and t~at I told ycu when I gave you a Defcripcion of RtgeS.:nytur-e , nefation, i~ the lmaj{e of God: Of this I fpake fomewhar before, but !hall now ~t' , :do ir more fully. The Image of God now in Scripture is tllkcn in two Senfes: , · I· -·- ~ Pi1•ff, For tbe ejfential and ·eo-eternal Image of God_ the Father. And fo Chrifr is ft~,J:t·:f·called rhe Image of God in,Col:r.r). _He is t~e Imae:eqft?e in;;_ifible G?d,fays the ' 'tl.agc:,if.. ~poftle there. So alfo Heb. I.;.. He.u!heBnght1;ejsof huG!ory, charts, of God's G~rf.t {tnlid~l.ory, an'd be is the exp~efs Image of his Perfon. lndel!d, it is infinitely pift our f!' Cbri]l ' .Re'ttCh to' 'conCeive what a wonderful Impreffion that waS chat flampt the Iuh cafe;{ -fnage of thb Father upon the Son in fuch a forr, as to be rQeJame in Sublbnce ~/6/tg:,and Dura~ion with rhc.~:h"iginalic feif. .. , , , 1 .,;-;- ~ :~ ?e:;on~!Y,., T~erefore to come nearer ro our Purp,~fc, The Imttgeof God is taken l! istaken'{6metmt~ tlJ Scnpcm:c,for that Refemblance of God that ts upon the So«l of Man. And jrJr.th.:tR~ z- foki'S' fafd 'iri·Gm. r.' '27: That God created Man in his own image. Now robe eh is fif"J/~and: Image, itnp1ies rw,b things; Firft, A Likenefo atul Similitudtthat Man bears unto ~- ~~~;.'~od_ :· Sec?nCf~)r, It i~Jil!u "that God made himfelf the. Pottern and Examplar, when so,l .Oj" tlit'--dfnv-th1l f-zlune{iqf htm[elf ~tpon Man. Two rhmgs, or two Pedons, may .Man. •·· i b't!'l!Ke eacli· to other, which yec properly are nor faid eo be the one che Image \l.\ 9f the other, .unlefs the one be m_adc purpofely w refemble and rcprefenr the . ....'Other, as Milkisfaid to~be li _keMilk; buc ycrone pare is not faid eo be rhe Image . ~~ ofr-heothei-': So then when it is faid, God made Man afccr his own Image, ic ' ' itrlplies a Likenefs in Him umo God; and it implies aJfo, that this Likenefs is .~- ~ wroughtin him by Gbd_, ,purpofely to refctnble him. Now hc:-e w clear our ,- Paffagc, f fhall·cnnfider three things. Whereln ' r! Firft_, Whei-lin the Image of God cmififted, in which Ma1J was i1J biJ Primitir:.•e · tk lm~6 'Stiite c-ieated_r.· ~Godc~n~ .,f Secpftdly_, Wh-at Parts ofthat Image are loft and defaced by the Fall, and what Dj 1~~;;. (.'it ·f!iU re'm~;;,; t~pon the SMl.. And, :a:.' cre:.:l' ~'~Ihirdly., If. hat of that Image is again renewed and rej!ored in c-ur Regenm:~ red. 'i•fio.n. d: Firft, What .:he primitive Image of God was in which he created Man. I anfwcr Negati.vel] and Pojitively. Not in any Firft, NegatiVely . .The ImtigeofGod "doth not ~onji(! in any corporeal Re{emblance ~rporeal ·of him, or bodily Similitude to him. For our Bodies, though they are of an ad~ b/'[:;;0 , · rnirable Compofure, yet thl!y carry in rhem no Refemblance of God, who is _a Similitude S~irir, and wh? is rhe God of th~ Spirits _of all Fleih. The Lear.n~d d~ well ~~~ ftmguifh betwiXt Imago and Vejl1gium De:; there are qu.edam v e(!zgta De:, ceream Footfteps of God printed ,upon every Crearure_, by chetracingofwhic~ Foot · · ftepswe may find_out his ir;fi~ite Power and G~dhcad, as rhe Apoltle !peak_s; Thus there is not the leafi ~p1re of Grafs buc pomcsupwards eo God,as m Wife and
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