Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…

I know the Schoolmen make the two Words signify two things: I think it's a groundless Conceit. But dear (call them what you will, Image or Likeness) it consisteth of three parts, or a Trinity in Unity. 1. The natural substantial Part. 2. The qualitative moral part. 3. The relative honorary part. (I rather call them three Parts of God's Image, than three Images, though here also the Controversy de Nomine is small) 1. Man's high superanimal or rational Life in Unity, hath his Trinity of noble Faculties; an Intellect or Reason capable of knowing God, a free or self-determining Will, capable of adhering to him, and an executive Power capable of serving him: That these Natural Essential Powers, are the Natural Part of God's Image, appears, Gen. 9. 6. where Man, as Man is supposed to have it; else the Murder of none but Saints is there forbidden: This no Man loseth. 2. Holiness, or the Spirit in Unity containeth, 1. The Wisdom of the Mind, which is the Knowledge of God. 2. The Rectitude of the Will, which is the Love of God. And 3. The Promptitude, Obedience and Fortitude of the Executive Power, in and for the Service of God; and this is the moral Part of God's Image. 3. God, having the only Aptitude by his three great Properties, Infinite POWER, WISDOM, and GOODNESS, and the only Right Jure Creationis [and since Redemptionis & Regenerationis] immediately stood related to Man, in the three great Relations contained expressively in the Name God; 1. Our absolute proprietary Owner or Lord. 2. Our Supreme Rector. 3. Our bountiful Benefactor, or Father, and End, all flowing from his Relation, of our most potent, wise, good CREATOR. Man is related to him, 1. As his own, to be wholly at his dispose. 2. As his Subject, to be wholly at his Government. 3. As his Beneficiary, or Child to love him with all the Heart. Now ⟨p. 297⟩God hath given Man to bear his Image in these Relations, which is in Unity called his Dominion over the brute Creatures, And in Trinity containeth, 1. That we are their Owners, and they our own. 2. we are their Governors (according to their Capacities). 3. We are their Benefactors, and they have (and had more) dependence on us, and were made for us as their End, as we were immediately for God as our End. This part of God's Image is partly, not totally lost. The moral part is that which the Spirit restoreth:

I know the Schoolmen make the two Words signifie two things: I think it's a groundless Conceit. But dere (call them what you will, Image or Likeness) it consisteth of three parts, or a Trinity in Unity. 1. The natural substantial Part. 2. The qualitative moral part. 3. The relative honorarary part. (I rather call them three Parts of God's Image, than three Images, though here also the Controversy de Nomine is small) 1. Man's high superanimal or rational Life in Unity, hath his Trinity of noble Faculties; an Intellect or Reason capable of knowing God, a free or self-determining Will, capable of adhearing to him, and an executive Power capable of serving him: That these Natural Essential Powers, are the Natural Part of God's Image, appears,