The pattern of perfection exhibited in Gods image on AdamThe paterne of perfection exhibited in Gods image on Adam

1. Look where sin takes ⟨p. 33⟩place after the nature of man defiled, there was the image of God before; now sin reigns in the whole man. Sin and the image of God are both of a breadth. The privation of a thing can be no where, but where the thing was; blindness is no where, but where sight was, or might have been; death is no where, but where life was, or might have been: so sin could be no where, but where the image of God was, or might have been. Sin is like leaven, that leaveneth the whole lump: there is no whole part in man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, therefore the image of God was in the whole man. Matth. 15.1•. ⟨p. 34⟩Out of the heart come evil thoughts: There is the throne of sin: but Rom. 6.12. Let not sin reign in your mortal bodies. Thus is the kingdom of sin described: for that a man is as it is, full of all unrighteousness, Rom. 1. The heart is full of malice, and the hand is full of blood; the heart is adulterous, and the eye wanton; the members, the members of an Harlot (as the Apostle speaks:) for if profaneness be once in the heart, the hand is full of mischief. If then the whole man be deprived of Gods image by sin, then the whole man had the image of God before sin.

1. Looke where sin takes ⟨p. 33⟩place after the nature of man defiled, there was the image of God before; now sinne reignes in the whole man. Sinne and the image of God are both of a breadth. The privation of a thing can bee no where, but where the thing was; blindnesse is no where, but where sight was, or might have beene; death is no where, but where life was, or might have beene: so sin could be no where, but where the image of God was, or might have beene. Sinne is like leaven, that leaveneth the whole lumpe: there is no whole part in man from the crowne of the head to the sole of the foot, therefore the image of God was in the whole man.