The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

The great infallible witness of CHRIST, is the SPIRIT of GOD, or the Holy Ghost: Or that divine operation of the Holy Spirit, which infallibly proveth the attestation of God himself, as interesting him in it, as the principal cause.

As we know the Coin of a Prince by his image and superscription, and know his acts by his public proper Seal: And as we know that God is the Creator of the world, by the Seal of his likeness which is upon it: Or as we know the Father of a child, when he is so like him, as no other could beget: So know we Christ and Christianity to be of God, by his unimitable image or impression.

As we know the Coin of a Prince by his image and superscription, and know his acts by his publick proper Seal: And as we know that God is the Creatour of the world, by the Seal of his likeness which is upon it: Or as we know the Father of a child, when he is so like him, as no other could beget: So know we Christ and Christianity to be of God, by his unimitable image or impression.

The Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, are the essentialities which we call the Nature of God: These in their proper form, and transcendent perfection, are incommunicable: But when they produce an effect on the creature, which for the resemblance may analogically be called by the same names; the names are logically communicable, though the thing it self (which is the Divine Essence or Perfections) be still incommunicable: But when they only produce effects more heterogeneal or equivocal, then we call those effects only the footsteps or demonstrations of their cause. So GOD, whose Power, Wisdom and Goodness in it self is incommunicable, hath produced intellectual natures, which are so like him, that their likeness is called his Image; and analogically (yet equivocally) the created faculties of their Power, Intellect and Will; are called ⟨p. 98⟩