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

Yet we find it expressly charged by Saint Augustine upon the Anthropomorphites of old (or Melitonians, ¹as he calls them, from one Melito the Father of them) not only, that they imagined God in a humane shape (which was their known conceit) but that they stated Gods image in Man, in his body, not his soul. Nor are Van Helmont's fancies,² about corporal likeness capable of excuse by any thing, but that they were a dream (as they are fitly styled) and not likely to impose upon the waking reason of any man.

Yet we find it expressely charged by Saint Angustine upon the Antropomorphites of old (or Melitonians, ¹as he calls them, from one Melito the Father of them) not onely, that they imagined God in a humane shape (which was their known conceit) but that they stated Gods image in Man, in his body, not his soul. Nor are Van Helmonts phansies,² about corporal likeness capable of excuse by any thing, but that they were a dream (as they are fitly stil'd) and not likely to impose upon the waking reason of any man.

1. 1Corpus hominis noa animam esse imaginem Dei, Aug. (if it be Augustines) lib. de haeresibus.
2. 2See Dr Charleton of his Image of God in man.

6. This image or likeness of God in the Spirit of Man, representing what is communicable in him, is either Natural or Moral. There is first, a natural image of God, in the soul of man, which is inseparable from it; and which it can never divest it self of