An elegant and lively description of spiritual life and death Delivered in divers sermons…An elegant and lively description of spirituall life and death Delivered in divers sermons…

But ye will object,¹ Men are not quite dead, there are some relics of Gods Image still left in them; how are they then dead?

But yee will obiect,¹ Men are not quite dead, there are some reliques of Gods Image still left in them; how are they then dead?

1. 1Ob.

To this I answer,¹ that there is a double Image of God; first a natural, standing in the natural frame of the soul, as to be immortal; immaterial; So there is understanding, will and reason, and some sparks of life left in us, as ⟨p. 14⟩the remainder of a stately building that is ruinated: but yet there are no sparks of the living Image left in us, the spiritual Image of God consisting in holiness and true righteousness, remains not; The Papists indeed deny it, but how will they answer the rule of the Fathers: that Supernaturalia dona sunt penitus ablata, naturalia quassata; that supernatural gifts are utterly taken away, no sparks of them remain.

To this I answer,¹ that there is a double Image of God; first a naturall, standing in the natural frame of the soule, as to be immortal; immateriall; So there is understanding, will and reason, and some sparks of life left in us, as ⟨p. 14⟩the remainder of a stately building that is ruinated: but yet there are no sparkes of the living Image left in us, the spirituall Image of God consisting in holinesse and true righteousnes, remaines not; The Papists indeed deny it, but how will they answer the rule of the Fathers: that Supernaturalia dona sunt penitus ablata, naturalia quassata; that supernaturall gifts are utterly taken away, no sparkes of them remaine.