. ~ hi the Soul of Man. 97 towards men, did we n1ind the interefl: tl1at he is pleafed to take in them, and confider, that · every foul is clearer unto him than all the n1aterial world, and that he did not account the blood of his fon too great a price for their redemption. Again, as all men fiand in · a near rcla.tion to God; ~o. they have That they car.: fhll fo much ofh1s 1n1age ftamry his image ped on them, as may oblige ~.:pon them. and excite us to love then1. In fome this i1nage is more eminent and confpicuous, and we can difcern the lovely tracts of wif– don1 and goodnefs: and though in others it be n1iferably fullied and defaced, yet is it not altogether razed; fome lineatnents at leaft do fiill remain. All n1en are en– dued with rational and im1nortal fouls, with under!landings and wills capable of the highefi: and n1ofi: excellent things: and if they be at prefent difordered and put out of tune by wickednefs and folly, this may indeed n1ove our paffion, but ought not in reafon to extinguiih our love. When we fee a perfon of a rugged humour, and perverfe·difpofition, full of n1alice and dif- · fin1ulation, very foolifh and very proud, · it is hard to fall in love with an object that prefents itfdf u_nto us under an idea fo little grateful and lovely. But when we ihall I confider
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