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

But when that goodness shall be fully participated, when this image, and imitation of the divine goodness shall be complete, and entire; then shall we know the rich exuberant sense of those words. How fully will this image or likeness satisfy then?

But when that goodness shall be fully participated, when this image, and imitation of the divine goodness shall be compleat, and intire; then shall we know the rich exuberant sense of those words. How fully will this image or likeness satisfie then?

And yet more distinctly we may apprehend how satisfying this likeness (or image imprest) will be, if (a little further deferring the view of the particulars of this likeness which we have designed to instance in) we consider these general properties of it.

And yet more distinctly we may apprehend how satisfying this likeness (or image imprest) will be, if (a little further deferring the view of the particulars of this likeness which we have defigned to instance in) we consider these general properties of it.

1. 'Tis a vital image, not the image only of him that lives; the living God; but it is his living and soul quickening image. 'Tis the likeness of him, in that very respect, an imitation, and participation of the life of God, by which, once revived, the soul lives that was dead before. 'Tis not a dead picture, a dumb show, an unmoving Statue; but a living, speaking, walking image; that wherewith the Child is ⟨p. 113⟩like the Father: the very life of the subject where it is, and by which it lives as God, speaks and acts conformably to him. An image, not such a one as is drawn with a Pencil,