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

3. An image connatural to the Spirit of man. Not a thing alien, and foreign, to his nature, put into him purposely, as is were to torment and vex him; but an ancient well-known inhabitant, that had place in him from the beginning. Sin is the injurious intruder, which therefore puts the soul into a commotion, and permits it not to rest, while it hath any being there. This Image calms it, restores it, works a peaceful orderly composure within, returns it to it self, to its pristine blessed state being reseated there, as in its proper primitive subject.

3. An image connatural to the Spirit of man. Not a thing alien, and forraign, to his nature, put into him purposely, as is were to torment and vex him; but an ancient well-known inhabitant, that had place in him from the beginning. Sin is the injurious intruder, which therefore puts the soul into a commotion, and permits it not to rest, while it hath any being there. This Image calms it, restores it, works a peaceful orderly composure within, returns it to it self, to its pristine blessed state being reseated there, as in its proper primitive subject.

For though this image, in respect of corrupted nature, be supernatural; in respect of institute, and undefiled nature it was, in a true sense, natural (as hath been demonstrated by divers of ours against the Papists; and upon the matter yielded by some of the more mode•••e, among themselves.^* At least it was […] with humane nature; consentane•us to it, and per•ective of it. (We are speaking, it ⟨p. 115⟩must be remembered of that part of the divine Image that consists in moral excellencies, there being another part of it, as hath been said, that is even in the strictest sense, natural.)