2. Another end in Adam's Creation after the Image of God, was to be is the glory and praise of Gods Name: For as the Angels, who also were made after Gods Image, their constant work was to praise and glorify God: Thus Adam being made like another Angel, was made full of holiness, that upon the Earth, he might, as the Angels do in Heaven, sing holy, holy, holy unto the Lord: As some great Kings of the Earth, when they have built some great City or Town, they cause their Image or Picture to be set up in some eminent place, for the monument of themselves, who were such great Benefactors: Thus God, when he had made this great and glorious world, he puts man into it as his Image, that thereby his praise and goodness should be constantly declared; but since Adam his fall, all mankind is now a reproach and dishonour to God; Their thoughts, their affections, their lives, are so many dishonourable and reproachful passages against him; God doth not look upon us now as his workmanship, but as the devils; he feeth not his Image, but the Devils in us: Moses saith, that when God saw how all men had corrupted themselves, it repented him that be made man, and it grieved him at his heart, Gen. 6. 6. What a wonderful expression is this? God cannot repent or grieve at any thing properly, but the Scripture speaketh thus after the manner of men, to show how exceedingly displeasing and offensive mans fall was, that it had been better he had never been created, than prove such an Apostate. It is true, God knew how to work a greater good out of sin, than sin could be an evil, but this no thank to Adam's sin and disobedience; The good wrought thereby cometh wholly from the gracious power of God; so that Adam's sin of it self, did disannul the end of his Creation, and brought all things into confusion. Take every man by nature, what a beast and devil is he, what an enemy to God, what an adversary to every thing of God; so that whereas he was made to glorify and honour God, all his whole work and life is now to dishonour him, and reproach his holy Name: Herein then lieth the misery of this loss of the Image of God, that we are fallen from our end, we are of our selves salt that hath lost its savouriness, we are fit for nothing but eternal torments.
2. Another end in Adam's Creation after the Image of God, was to be is the glory and praise of Gods Name: For as the Angels, who also were made after Gods Image, their constant work was to praise and glorifie God: Thus Adam being made like another Angel, was made full of holiness, that upon the Earth, he might, as the Angels do in Heaven, sing holy, holy, holy unto the Lord: As some great Kings of the Earth, when they have built some great City or Town, they cause their Image or Picture to be set up in some eminent place, for the monument of themselves, who were such great Benefactors: Thus God, when he had made this great and glorious world, he puts man into it as his Image, that thereby his praise and goodness should be constantly declared; but since Adam his fall, all mankind is now a reproach and dishonour to God; Their thoughts, their affections, their lives, are so many dishonourable and reproachfull passages against him; God doth not look upon us now as his workmanship, but as the devils; he feeth not his Image, but the Devils in us: Moses saith, that when God saw how all men had corrupted themselves, it repented him that be made man, and it grieved him at his heart, Gen. 6. 6. What a wonderfull expression is this? God cannot repent or grieve at any thing properly, but the Scripture speaketh thus after the manner of men, to shew how exceedingly displeasing and offensive mans fall was, that it had been better he had never been created, than prove such an Apostate. It is true, God knew how to work a greater good out of sinne, than sinne could be an evil, but this no thank to Adam's sin and disobedience; The good wrought thereby cometh wholly from the gracious power of God; so that Adam's sinne of it self, did disanull the end of his Creation, and brought all things into confusion. Take every man by nature, what a beast and devil is he, what an enemy to God, what an adversary to every thing of God; so that whereas he was made to glorifie and honour God, all his whole work and life is now to dishonour him, and reproach his holy Name: Herein then lieth the misery of this losse of the Image of God, that we are fallen from our end, we are of our selves salt that hath lost its favourinesse, we are fit for nothing but eternal torments.
