An exposition of the Symbol or Creed of the Apostles according to the tenor…An exposition of the Symbole or Creed of the Apostles according to the tenour…

which is nothing else but a conformity of the will and ⟨p. 82⟩affections, and of the whole disposition of man both in body and soul, to the will of God his creator. Yet we must remember that Adam in his innocency had a changeable will, so as he could either will good or evil: he was created with such liberty of will, as that he could indifferently will either. And we must not think that the will of the creature was made unchangeably good: for that is peculiar to the will of God, and hereby is the Creator distinguished from the creature.

which is nothing else but a conformitie of the will and ⟨p. 82⟩affections, and of the whole disposition of man both in bodie and soule, to the will of God his creatour. Yet we must remember that Adam in his innocencie had a changeable will, so as he could either will good or euill: he was created with such libertie of will, as that he could indifferently will either. And we must not thinke that the will of the creature was made vnchangeably good: for that is peculiar to the will of God, and hereby is the Creatour distinguished from the creature.

And here two things offer them selves to be considered. The first, why the man is called the image of God, and not the woman.¹ Answer. He is so called, not because holiness and righteousness is peculiar to him which is common to both: but because God hath placed more outward excellency and dignity in the person of a man then of a woman. The second, how Christ should be called the image of God. Ans. ²He is so called for 2. causes. First, because he is of the same substance with the father; & therefore is his most absolute image, and as the author of the Hebrews saith, the brightness of his glory and the engraved form of his person.