• in t!Je Conflittttion of the Perfon of C!Jri.ft. 2 33 prit~cipally confifi. Without them he could not be known and glonfied as God. Wherefore he would have an I mage and Reprefentation of tl:em in the Creation here be– low~ And this he will alwaies have fo long as he will be \Vorfhiped by any of his creatures. And therefore when it was loft in Aclam, it wa'S renewed in Cbrijf ; as hath been declared. c..~· 2. Thefecond was, that it might be a means of rendring a.B:ual Glory unto him, from all ·other parts of the Creation. \Vithout this, which is .as the animating life and form of the whole, the other creatures are but as a dead thing,. They could not any way declare the glory of God, but paffively and objeCtively. They were as an harmonious well tuned Infirument, which gives no found, unlefs there be a skilful hand to move and afr·it. What is Light if there be no eye to fee it? or what is Mufick if there be no ear to hear it ? How glorious and beautiful foever any of the works of Creation appear to be, from impreifions of Divine Power, Wifdom and Goodnefs on them, yet without this Image ofGod in man, there was nothing here below to underfiand God. in · them, to glorifie God by them. This alone is that wh~reby in a way ofAdmiration, Obedience and Praife, we were en– abled to render unto God all the Glory which he defigned · from thofe works ofhis Power. =I!- ~, The thudwas, that it might be a means to bring man 4. unto that Eternal Enjoyment of himfelf, which he was fitted for, and defigned unto. For this was to be done in a way of Obedience : 'l) o this and live, was that Rule ·of it which the Nature of God and Man, with their mutual relation unto one another did require. But we were made meet for this Obe– dience, and enabled unto it, only by vertue of this Image of God implanted in our Natures, It was·morally aPower to live unto God in Obedience, that we might come to the enjoy– ment ofhim in Glory. H h Evident
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