A discourse relating to the much-lamented death and solemn funeral of our incomparable and…

Therefore to be made like God, is to be made perfect, according to the ultimate intendment of these words. The vision, or knowledge of God in the heavenly state, being never intended for idle, ineffectual speculation; as this perfection is not otherwise to be understood, than with reference to the ends we were made for; that we may be immediately capable of, and apt for everlasting adoration and fruition of the blessed God, in a joint, and most full consent, and communion, with the General Assembly, the whole Community of all the blessed Spirits besides, whose eternal work and delight this will be.

This likeness to God must yet be understood with exception to the Divine Peculiarities, as hath been elsewhere shown, ^*(whither we now refer, only to save the labour of transcribing.) In respect of which Peculiarities also, there must be on our part, a correspondency, i. e. a likeness with allowance for necessary disagreement, as between a Seal and the impression, where what is convex in the one, is hollow in the other, and yet otherwise like, i. e. correspondent to each other too. So the case is between the blessed God's All-sufficient fullness, and our receptive emptiness, between his Supremacy, and our Subjection. In respect to other things common to him and us, with the rest of those happy Spirits that inhabit the Regions of light and bliss, Spirituality it self, Life and Vigour, Knowledge, Wisdom, Holiness, Love, Serenity, Benignity, Mercy, Peace, and Joy, there is a nearer resemblance; these things passing under the same name with him, and with us, but with the infinite inequality still, of God, and Creature.

This likeness to God must yet be understood with exception to the Divine Peculiarities, as hath been elsewhere shewn, ^*(whither we now refer, only to save the labour of transcribing.) In respect of which Peculiarities also, there must be on our part, a correspondency, i. e. a likeness with allowance for necessary disagreement, as between a Seal and the impression, where what is convex in the one, is hollow in the other, and yet otherwise like, i. e. correspondent to each other too. So the case is between the blessed God's All-sufficient fulness, and our receptive emptiness, between his Supremacy, and our Subjection. In respect to other things common to him and us, with the rest of those happy Spirits that inhabit the Regions of light and bliss, Spirituality it self, Life and Vigour, Knowledge, Wisdom, Holiness, Love, Serenity, Benignity, Mercy, Peace, and Joy, there is a nearer resemblance; these things passing under the same name with him, and with us, but with the infinite inequality still, of God, and Creature.