ag 2 .RRefppon fon toforrepretended Argumentt To his. fecond, I anfwer, Man was diflingui- fiied from a beaft by the Creation , andcarne to be as a beaft by t iefall , which he might have &nervne without asking : Manwas made in or according to the image of Godby Creation , but that image was not beftial,therefore therein lay the difiinthor:; but man in his faine condition, though he wouldbe wife; is born a wildaffet colt,and Ifragil is called a wild affe in the wildernef. Tohis third, I anfwer; That God made him in his own Image, in a moreperfect condition then that of reafon ; and that by following the Devils ad= vice, he became as a beaßt, and hath no other guide (inthat darkened condition) in himfelfé but the duskie lamps of reafon andfen(e, which is common to thebeafis. I will herebut onely urge one thing untohim ; WasRcafon, or fomething elfe the I-. mage of God, inwhich man was made ? Ifreafon, then nomanhath loft that Image ; for he holds (as I fuppofe) that omnis homo eft animal rationale : yet before he hath faid,that reafon was depraved,& darkened in the fall,and that by the helpof learning (humane learning I fuppofe he means) it is in fore meafvre reffored : Is it not blafphemy to ficythat a- ny thing reflores any jot of that which Adam loft, but Chrif1 onely? Let all judge how this will be folved. And if the Image of God werefomething else betides reafon let it bedenlonfirated.what it is. Now let him confider his owne horrid blafphemy, inmaking reafon the image of God , and confider whether it be a.docirine of devils, or not ; for ratio- nality Tdeny tobe the irna,ge of God, or the perfe_ aion of it an. MI
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