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Divine Considerations.
CONSIDERATION I.
How it is to be understood, that man was created after the Image and Likenesse of God.
I Have many times endeavoured to understand in what properly that Image and Likenesse of God doth consist, in the which the holy Scri∣pture saith, Gen. 1.27. Man was created: and whilest I have endeavoured to understand this by reading, I have not profited at all; for rea∣ding drew me now to one opinion, and by and by to another, untill at last endeavouring to do it by consideration, it seemed to me that I un∣derstood, or at least that I began to understand it. The same God which hath given me that which I have attained, shall (I am assured) give me that which I yet want.
The Image and Likenesse of God, as I un∣derstand, consisteth in his proper essence, where∣in he is impassible, and immortal; yea also, good, mercifull, just, faithfull, and true. With these Qualities, and with these perfections, I un∣derstand that God created man in earthly Para∣dise, where, before he became disobedient to God, he was impassible, and immortal; yea, also he