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

5. This likeness, as it is principally found in man among all the terrestrial creatures; so hath it man for its seat and subject, his Soul or spiritual part. The effects of divine wisdom power, goodness, are every where visible, throughout the whole Creation; and as there is no ⟨p. 55⟩effect, but hath some thing in it, corresponding to its cause (wherein it was its cause) so, every creature doth, some way or other, represent God. Some in virtues, some in life, some in being^* only, the material world, represents him as an house, the builder. But spiritual beings, as a child, the father^†. Other Creatures (as one^* fitly expresses it) carry his footsteps; these, his image: & that, not as drawn with a pencil, which can only express figure and colour: but, as represented in a glass, which intimates action and motion. To give the preeminence therefore^† in this point to the body of man, was a conceit, so gross, that one would wonder how it should obtain; at least in the Christian world.

5. This likenesse, as it is principally found in man among all the terrestrial creatures; so hath it man for its seat and subject, his Soul or spiritual part. The effects of divine wisdom power, goodnesse, are every where visible, throughout the whole Creation; and as there is no ⟨p. 55⟩effect, but hath some thing in it, corresponding to its cause (wherein it was its cause) so, every creature doth, some way or other, represent God. Some in virtues, some in life, some in being^* only, the material world, represents him as an house, the builder. But spiritual beings, as a child, the father^†. Other Creatures (as one