Or, T!iC, Niw 'Biri/i; and Powerful Maker; there is ,noLthe lea'ft Leaf bu~ ha~h written nr.{>n it the· - Wifdom and Power of God; every Crea:ture~brute and mammate bears the print of God's footftecps upon it .and pf this rank are our Bodies bearing upon them, qu4dam veftigia, fame Footftcps and Tr~cks o~ God .i an~ by how much the ~ore wonderfully they are framed and orgamzed, m whtch t;efpea the Pfolmift fatth,· I am woudcrjiilly aitd feArfully made, ~y fo muc~ the more dt(ccrnable arc the Foot;Jl::ps of Gael feen in our Bodies, than m the Boches of other Crcatur~s; but yet thts ts not . fufficicnt to make them Images of God, for they have not m themfelves any refCmblancc of th~ Divine Nature; neither are they Spirit? nor IntelleCXual Snbfrances ns God is; and therefore tho' they a,re faid to bear the print of God's Foot!teps, yet they are not fa id to bear 9od's Image. ..Indeed there were fomc .that wer.e cal~ led Anrhropomorphi~cs that fanc1ed ~od to be ,corpore~l, .and that afct:Ibed to him all Members in propnety, that the Scnf.ture afcnbed to ~tm Ill condefccntton, as Hands, Head Eyes, and Feet, and the ltke, and confequently th~ught that God framed Man'; Body according to the Image o( his own; but this is a il:upid Error; and a Htat}m1 Orator had more true information in this -point, when he tells us, That the Yirtues of Mt~n ultlke him to be more like tiJ God than hU Shape doth; fa then it is not the Bodyo(Man that is the Image ofGodo o Secondly, Po(itivety. And fa we may take notice that the Image ofGod confi!ts. 1ha ~~ tm· Firft, In fuch perfeUiom aJ are fpiritual, I fay? in .fUciJ fpi~itual_per[effions as a.re effenti-fifl:: al and mcejfory to Man M Man ; fuch as the ranon:tl Soul It felf; together With thofe Fir.ft, In Powers and Faculties that are neceflarily fuQjeCI:ed and fea ted in it, as the Under- thDftspiri· ' franding, Will and Affedions; for by thefe Man may be fa id to bear the Image of'"~' Perft· God, becaufe thefc have in them fome faint glimpfes and fhadows of the Divine Ef- lit@, rhif. fence. The Soul is a Spirit, and fo is God; the Soul is an intelleCl:uJl and freefo';r;';;,; Agent, and fo is God ; indeed the refemblance betwixt God and us, even in this 111 M11n; .u very thing in which we bear fame refemblance of God, is infinitely unfeuchablerh~ s~ul and grea;. Mlrk that place fo~ the co~firmation o~ this !n Gen. 9: 6. He that jhed- :;::}, ~~"4' deth Mans b~ood,. by Man Jhall hu blo_od be foed, for ,m the 1-magc of God made he Man . m 1111dra.· Why whetem lies the force of thts Reafon? Do not all affirm that Man loft thecu/tiu rL.i. Image of GJ)d by his fin and fa)! ; Or di1 God hereby intend to fecure the Lives of~•'!ft"•d the-Regenerate _tha~ hav~ this Image agam reftored to them? N:o, but the weight'" 1t• of the rcafon l1es m th1s, that every Man whether.Regenerate or \\Ticked, frill bears the Image of God even in this, that he bath a fpiritual Soul, and that he hath an intellectual Mind, that he hath a fre~ lnd felf..determining Will; and therefore w!10focver Murders Ma~ dcferv:_s Deat~, becaufe he Murders God in E.fftgies, he Murders the Image qf God. Th1s now IS one part of the Image of God, the fpiritulll Soul, and the ratioJl,al Powers and Faculties of it. .· · Secondly, .Another part of God's Image confifts in thofo habituAl pcrftUions of Man's 2, humane naturc.that 1vere not Ejfential ' to him, but rather Ornamentive and Nectfj4ry, not In ~Q tluji' fimply_ to hi1 Bcit~g, but rath~r to hiJ.We!l-keing. ".fo make Man a r~tional Creature, ith;~;;~t was limply neceffary to breathe mto htm a rattonal Soul, and lt was alfo neceJfary~f M ?" that that rational Soul Ihould pc cndQwed with Faculties, with Under!tanding, Will N•tu:;s ., and Affeaions: But I}OW over a~d above thefe necefrary things, God gave him that w t ,.( righteous habits that might r~ctifie thofe \Faculties, and thefe are three. "~t Effmti~ Firft, Goti darted j.nfo hU Vnderftanding a clear and exa£1 Knowledge, not only gf tho(e ~t' h~t """ things that aro, j)lafural, but ,of thofo things, that are Divine alfo: \Of his Knowledge in m:;ti:e"A.~ , things that a·rq t\atur{l l, wc ;ha.ve a clear m~ance, when as al Creatures pafiCd be-:-rmro him." fore .Admn as' Ser.vants to do hom.age to their Lord, he was able by a tranfient view 1 • • and intui~i.on of thelJl tq_ give ~-h~m all N~!_11~S accord~ng to their feveral.Natures.~;;-;n; · \And of h1s ~1_1owlcdgc of t,h~ D1vme N.ature appeared hence, becaufe his Love of,~aa · him yvas:.per(ect ,; and hqw q:mld he love God, if he had not known him ? Now in k:n,Jt!/tdge -this l"trticolar of Kn01y!edgc; Man nearly refembled G9d in his firft Eftate o fork•h•fN,;, pod's infipitc d,clight' is in ,t~e K~owledge and ~ontemplations of himfelf, .;nd of~;~:n:4 his Works, ap.dfo alfowasMans; but yet this Knowledge was not Ommfctency·n·11 ! j .for there :\oycre many things doubtl~fs thai l\1:an was then ignorant of; but he kneV: ' • whatever was necelfary and cxpedtent for htm to know, and that was fu.fficient for the happinefs of his Eftate, and for the end for which he wasCreatedo Q.q q q . secondly{
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