Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

First, the Image of God. Secondly, the relation they have to God. Thirdly, their spiritual privileges. ¹Fourthly, the preciousness of that which comes from them. Fifthly, the great use that they are of here in the world. Sixthly, their ends.

First, the Image of God. Secondly, the relation they have to God. Thirdly, their spiritual priviledges. ¹Fourthly, the preciousness of that which comes from them. Fifthly, the great use that they are of here in the world. Sixthly, their ends.

1. 1Answ.

First, for the work of grace, they have the image ¹of God upon them: Now the image of a thing, is not the representing of a thing in some under excellency, or in some mean thing that concerns that which it is made to resemble; but it is a resemblance of it in that which is the chief excellency. As if I would draw the picture of a man, I would not draw it for to resemble flesh merely, that a beast hath as well as man, but as near as can be, the very countenance, and life of man; I will not draw the back parts of a man, but his face, and countenance to life; so the image of God is not that which hath some little likeness to God, but that which hath ⟨p. 206⟩a likeness to God in the highest excellency, in his holiness and righteousness, which is (to speak according ²as we are able to conceive) the highest excellency of God; so that a gracious heart hath that which makes him like unto that which is the top of Gods excellency, that which is the image of GOD himself, and therefore it hath these four titles, The Image of God, The Divine Nature, The Life of God, and the Glory of God. The Image of God,