Aggravation of sin and sinning against knowledge. Mercy. Delivered in several sermons upon divers…Aggravation of sinne and sinning against knowledge. Mercie. Delivered in severall sermons upon divers…

Thirdly, it hath robbed the soul of the image of God, deprived us of the glory of God, Rom. 3. 23. the image of Gods holiness, which is his beauty and ours: we were beautiful and all glorious once within, which though but an accident, is ⟨p. 5⟩more worth than all mens souls devoid of it, it being a likeness unto God, a divine nature, without which no man shall see God. Though man in Innocency had all perfections united in him via eminentiae, that are to be found in other creatures, yet this was more worth than all: for all the rest made him not like to God, as this did; without which all Paradise could not make Adam happy; which when he had lost, he was left naked, though those his other perfections remained with him; which is profitable for all things, as the Apostle says. The least dram of which, the whole world emballanced with, would be found too light; without which the glorious Angels would be damned devils, the Saints in heaven damned ghosts, this it hath robbed man of.

Thirdly, it hath robbed the soule of the image of God, deprived us of the glory of God, Rom. 3. 23. the image of Gods holinesse, which is his beauty and ours: wee were beautifull and all glorious once within, which though but an accident, is ⟨p. 5⟩more worth than all mens soules devoid of it, it being a likenesse unto God, a divine nature, without which no man shall see God. Though man in Innocency had all perfections united in him via eminentiae, that are to be found in other creatures, yet this was more worth than all: for all the rest made him not like to God, as this did; without which all Paradise could not make Adam happy; which when he had lost, he was left naked, though those his other perfections remained with him; which is profitable for all things, as the Apostle sayes. The least dramme of which, the whole world emballanced with, would be found too light; without which the glorious Angels would be damned devills, the Saints in heaven damned ghosts, this it hath robbed man of.