body withall its Organs, all its Rooms, and then he puts in a noble & divine guest to dwel in it, He breaths in it the breath of life, he incloseth, as it were, an An∣gel within it, and marrieth these two together into the most admirable union and communion that can be imagined, so that they make up one man.
But that which the Lord looks most into is this work, and would have us most to consider, is that I∣mage of himself that he did imprint on man (let us make man in our own Image) there was no creature but it had some ingravings of God upon it, some curi∣ous draughts and lineaments of his Power, Wisdome and goodnesse upon it, and therefore the Heavens are said, to shew forth his glory, &c. But whatever they have, it is but the lower part of that image, some dark shaddows and resemblances of him, but that which is the last of his works, he maketh it according to his own image, tanquam ab ultima manu, he there∣in gives out himself to be read and seen of all men as in a glasse, other creatures are made, as it were, according to the similitude of his footstep, ad similitudinem ve∣stigii, but man, ad similitudinem faciei, according to the likenesse of his face (in our image, after our like∣nesse) It is true, there is one only, Jesus Christ his Son, who is the brightnesse of his glory, and the express substantiall image of his person, who resembleth him perfectly, and throughly in all properties, so that he is alter idem, another-self, both in nature, properties, & operations, so like him, that he is one with him; so that it is rather an onenesse, than a likenesse; but man he created according to his own Image, and gave him to have some likenesse to himself, likenesse I say, not samenesse, or onenesse. That is high indeed to be like God; The notion and expression of it imports some strange thing, how could man be like God, who is in∣finite, incomprehensible, whose glory is not commu∣nicable to another? It is true indeed, in these incom∣municable