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The pattern of perfection exhibited in Gods image on AdamThe paterne of perfection exhibited in Gods image on Adam
The pattern of perfection exhibited in Gods image on Adam: and Gods covenant made with him. Whereunto is added an exhortation, to redeem the time for recovering our losses in the premisses. And also some miscellanies, viz. I. The prayer of faith. II. A preparative to the Lords Supper. III. The character of a sound Christian, in 17. marks. By T.H.The paterne of perfection exhibited in Gods image on Adam: and Gods covenant made with him. Whereunto is added an exhortation, to redeem the time for recovering our losses in the premisses. And also some miscellanies, viz. I. The prayer of faith. II. A preparative to the Lords Supper. III. The character of a sound Christian, in 17. markes. By T.H.
London: printed by R. Young for R. Young, 1640
THE PATTERN of perfection. › Section 8: §. 8.THE PATERNE of perfection. › Section 8: §. 8.
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1. The framablenesse of the body to act the service that wisdom and holiness required. The parts were not stiff, not stubborn, nor ⟨p. 182⟩weary, but in a readiness to act what wisdom required. But we find it otherwise in us: St. Paul himself complained that he was clogged with it. When a man is distempered, either sick, or weak, there is a weariness in holy duties. The body is then like a dark shop, in which a good workman may cut his fingers. When the body is full of noisome humours, it is but an ill shop for the soul to work in: but this was not in Adam.
1. The framablenesse of the body to act the service that wisedome and holinesse required. The parts were not stiffe, not stubborne, nor ⟨p. 182⟩weary, but in a readinesse to act what wisedome required. But wee finde it otherwise in us: St. Paul himselfe complained that hee was clogged with it. When a man is distempered, either sicke, or weak, there is a wearinesse in holy duties. The body is then like a darke shop, in which a good workman may cut his fingers. When the body is full of noysome humours, it is but an ill shoppe for the soule to work in: but this was not in Adam.
2. There was a fitness in each part for its task. The eye was fit to see, the tongue to talk, &c. So that it is observed by Galen, though he were an heathen, yet considering the frame of the body, he fell in admiration of it; so ⟨p. 183⟩that he professed, that it was not possible for a natural cause to bring forth such an effect. Rom. 16.8. Yield not your members instruments to unrighteousness. He calls the members instruments. The Devil oftentimes tunes the tongue, and he seeth out of an adulterous eye▪ yea, his malice vents it self in an unruly tongue. Look again in the 19. verse, and there it's said, a mans members should be servants to holiness, tools or instruments that should be under the power of God. In a tool, there is both the metal, and the making, as in a saw or axe; so there is in the parts of the body, which are tools serviceable to wisdom, and the power of holiness, that they may work their works