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Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the…Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the…
Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians in XXX lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians in XXX lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by James Young for Thomas Underhill, 1647
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2. It's considerable in what an image doth consist. Now the 1Learned, they speak of a four-fold image, or likeness: 1. Where there is a likeness in an absolute agreement in the same nature: and thus the Son of God is the express image of the Father. 2. By participation of some universal nature: so a man and a beast are alike in their common nature of animality. 3. By proportion only: as the Pilot of a ship, and the Governor in the Common-wealth are alike. 4. By agreement of order, when one thing is a pattern for ⟨p. 115⟩another to be made after it: and this is properly to be an image; for two things go to the nature of an image: 1. Likeness, and then 2. that this likeness be made after another as a pattern. Thus one egg is like another, but not a pattern of another: so man was made like Angels, yet not after their image, as the Socinians would have it. So that, to be made after the image of God, implieth a likeness in us to God; and then, that this likeness in us, is made after that pattern which is in God. And howsoever man is a body, and God a spirit; yet this image and likeness may well be in other considerations. It was the opinion of Osiander, that therefore we are said to be made after the image of God, because we are made after the likeness of that humane nature, which the second Person in Trinity was to assume: and this hath been preached alate as probable; but that may hereafter be confuted, when we come to handle that Question, Whether Christ, as a Mediator, was known and considered of in the state of innocency?
2. It's considerable in what an image doth consist. Now the 1Learned, they speak of a four-fold image, or likenesse: 1. Where there is a likenesse in an absolute agreement in the same nature: and thus the Son of God is the expresse image of the Father. 2. By participation of some universall nature: so a man and a beast are alike in their common nature of animality. 3. By proportion onely: as the Pilot of a ship, and the Governour in the Common-wealth are alike. 4. By agreement of order, when one thing is a pattern for ⟨p. 115⟩another to be made after it: and this is properly to be an image; for two things goe to the nature of an image: 1. Likenesse, and then 2. that this likenesse be made after another as a pattern. Thus one egge is like another, but not a pattern of another: so man was made like Angels, yet not after their image, as the Socinians would have it. So that, to be made after the image of God, implieth a likenesse in us to God; and then, that this likenesse in us, is made after that pattern which is in God. And howsoever man is a body, and God a spirit; yet this image and likenesse may well be in other considerations. It was the opinion of Osiander, that therefore we are said to be made after the image of God, because we are made after the likenesse of that humane nature, which the second Person in Trinity was to assume: and this hath been preached alate as probable; but that may hereafter be confuted, when we come to handle that Question, Whether Christ, as a Mediatour, was knowne and considered of in the state of innocency?