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The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child…
The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child of God and the misery of having ones portion in this world, unfolding the state of true happiness with the marks, means, and members thereof / by Jer. Burroughs.The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child of God and the misery of having ones portion in this world, unfolding the state of true happiness with the marks, means, and members thereof / by Ier. Burroughs.
London: printed for Francis Eglesfield, 1657
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
So the image of God, is that wherein the creature resembles God in height of excellency and glory. It is not every resemblance of God that is Gods image: there are some things that set out some of the glory of God, and they are but called Gods footsteps, or his back parts. All the resemblance of God in his creatures; and the expressions of his power, and wisdom; the invisible things of ⟨p. 128⟩God that we see in the creature, they are all but his footsteps, and backparts; they are not his image, Why? because they do not resemble God in that which he hath set out to us to be the height of his glory. What is that? The holiness of God, that is the height of his excellency. Therefore it is said of God himself,1 holy and reverend is his name. Gods name comes to be reverend by holiness: were it not for his holiness, notwithstanding all the rest, (if it were possible to separate them) his name would not be reverend. Therefore when the Saints in heaven glorify God for his chiefest excellency, it is thus 2holy, holy, holy. We find not in Scripture any of Gods Attributes thrice repeated, Wise, Wise, Wise, or Almighty, Almighty, Almighty, but holy, holy, holy, because the excellency of God consists chiefly in Holiness: the LORD only is Holy.3
So the image of God, is that wherein the creature resembles God in height of excellency and glory. It is not every resemblance of God that is Gods image: there are some things that set out some of the glory of God, and they are but called Gods footsteps, or his back parts. All the resemblance of God in his creatures; and the expressions of his power, and wisedome; the invisible things of ⟨p. 128⟩God that we see in the creature, they are all but his footsteps, and backparts; they are not his image, Why? because they do not resemble God in that which he hath set out to us to be the height of his glory. What is that? The holinesse of God, that is the height of his excellency. Therefore it is said of God him•elf,