The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

4. There are some things to be found in the blessed God, not so incommunicable, and appropriate; but that his Creatures may be said to have some participation thereof with him: and so far to be truly like him. This participation cannot be univocal; as the nature of a living creature in general,¹ is equally in Men and Brutes. So it is a self evident principle, that Nothing can be common to God and an inferior being. Nor is it only equivocal; a participation but of the same name, when the natures signified thereby are, altogether diverse; but analogical, in as much as the things spoken under the same names of God and the creature, have a real likeness, and conveniency in nature with one another; and they are in God, primarily; in the creature, by dependence, and derivation: in him, essentially, as being his very Essence: in them, but as accidents, (many of them) adventitious to their beings: and so while they cannot be said to be the same things in them, as, in him, are fitly said to be his likeness.

4. There are some things to be found in the blessed God, not so incommunicable, and appropriate; but that his Creatures may be said to have some participation thereof with him: and so far to be truely like him. This participation cannot be univocal; as the nature of a living creature in general,¹ is equaly in Men and Brutes. So it is a self evident principle, that Nothing can be c•mmon to God and an inferiour being. Nor is it onely aequivocal; a participation but of the same name, when the natures signified thereby are, altogether diverse; but analogical, in as much as the things spoken under the same names of God and the creature, have a real likenesse, and conveniency in nature with one another; and they are in God, primarily; in the creature, by dependance, and derivation: in him, essentially, as being his very Essence: in them, but as accidents, (many of them) adventitious to their beings: and so while they cannot be said to be the same things in them, as, in him, are fitly said to be his likeness.

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