t 3 2 The LivingTemple. Part II'. Crown ; thefe are thought fine things, and beheld with a libidinous devouring Eye, caught at by aprofane facrilegiou& Hand. Nothingwould fatisfy but to be Godlike in this molt difallow'd, and impofJble Senfe. Man when he bath reduc'd hitufelf to the lowefl pitch of Vilenefs, Mifery, and Penury, now will befel f -fir f cient ; and when he is become the moil abject Slave to igno- minious Lulls and Pafiìons, now he will be Supream i That is, having made himfelf viler than the meaneft Crea- ture, and worfe than nothing, he will be a God, even his own, a God to him- fell ! Having fever'd and cut himfelf offromGod, hewill fupply the Room; and live only within to him- ,>lf what God war, and fhould ever be ! He nowmoves wholly in his own Sphere, disjoyned from that of the whole World ; and is his own Center. All he does is fronmhimfelf, andfor him- f lf. Thus is the true image of God tern down, from his own Temple, and that alienated, and become the Tem- ple of afalfe God, dedicate to that a- bominable Idol, Self. 2. Whence
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