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

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^*. Its very spiritual immortal nature, it self, is a representation of his. Its intellective and elective powers are the image of what we are constrained to conceive under the notion of the same powers in him. Yea, the same understanding, with the memory, and will, in one soul are thought a lively resemblance of the Triune Deity.^† But there is further a similitude of him in respect of moral ^*virtues or perfections answering to what we conceive in him, under that notion. His wisdom, (so far as it hath the nature of a moral virtue) his mercy, truth, righteousness, holiness, &c. These two kinds or parts (as ⟨p. 57⟩they may be called) of the divine impress upon the Spirits of men, are distinguished by some (I see not how properly) by the distinct names of Image, denoting the former: and similitude, the latter: answering, as is thought, to two Hebrew words of the like import^*: but the things themselves are evidently enough distinct, viz. what perfects the nature of man; in genère physico, as he is such a particular being in the Universe: and what perfects him, in genere morally, as he is considerable in reference to a Law or rule guiding him to blessedness: as his end.

6. This image or likenesse 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 inseperable from it; and which it can never divest it self of^*. Its very spiritual immortal nature, it self, is a representation of his. Its intellective and elective powers are the image of what we are constrained to conceive under the notion of the same powers in him. Yea, the same understanding, with the memory, and will, in one soul are thought a lively resemblance of the Triune Deity.