The application of redemption

But you will say, Are there no Relics left of ¹that glorious Image of God in the Will and Understanding?

But you will say, Are there no Reliques left of ¹that glorious Image of God in the Will and Understanding?

1. 1Object.

There is something left of the Law, but nothing¹ left whereby a man can be enabled to do any thing as an act of Spiritual Life that may be acceptable to God: In a word, there are these Two things to be attended, and may be observed in every man naturally at the lowest and the worst (as I look at these poor Indians, amongst whom we live, as the very ruins and rubbish of mankind, the forlorn Posterity of Adam.) 1 They are made for another, and for a better. 2 They ought to yield obedience to that other, and better: But to know the Will of God and do it, to be able to close with God, and to do that which is acceptable unto him, this is far estranged from all the sons of men by nature. If a man came where the Temple of Jerusalem was, and saw some ruins of the Buildings, and the rubbish of it, he would say, This was a glorious Temple, and here was the holy of holies, and it was thus, and so specious and beautiful, though it be not so now: So when we look upon the rubbish of the Image of lost Adam, we may say so, and conclude so, There was a glorious Image of God here, and by that which is left, we may see, That man is made for another, and a better; for this man Rules all the Creatures, they all serve him, and therefore he should serve another and a better; the whole frame of the soul tells a man this: But to have any ability to close with God, and to be subject to him, that is not to be found in the nature of lost man.