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Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace…
Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace and solid joy of a good conscience sprinkled with the blood of Jesus and exercised always to be void of offence toward God and toward men : brought down and holden forth in XXII very searching sermons on several texts of Scripture ... / by James Durham.
Edinburgh: printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, 1685
Title page typeset from the transcription.
To the reader: TO THE READERS, And more particularly to the Inhabitants of the City of GLASGOW.
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.
TO THE READERS, And more particularly to the Inhabitants of the City of GLASGOW.
THE Micro-cosme, or little World▪ Man, a notably curious Compend, and •abridgement▪ (as it were) of the larger one, and the great Master piece of all the visible works of GOD; w• when he came from under the ha•d of the Omnipotent Creator in the first Edition, a little Model, and Representation of the Divine Perfections; having impressed on him that blessed and beautiful, that amiable and admirable conformity to the Image and likeness of GOD, wherein consisted▪ the preheminency of His Nature, above that of all other Creatures in the Visible •r Sublunary World; being one of the great excellencies that a created nature is capable of, and a clearer ray of Divine Majesty, then his dominion over the other Creatures; and which only made him capable of the enjoyment of God, as being that which assimilated to him, and brought him to the nearest approaches to Glory: All the faculties and powers of his Soul carried this glorious Character volley engraven on them; His Body also had somewhat▪ of the same Image stamped on it, tho not in respect of its figure, and shape or natural u•e, but as an esse•l part of his nature, it was interested therein by a participate on of original righteousness; For it was mans person that was made holy, tho his Soul was the first proper Subject of that con-created habit, and principle of holiness, yet his body (as I said) as an essential part of his nature, did