Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	john_n	truth_n	worship_v	7,049	5	9.1128	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03603	The paterne of perfection exhibited in Gods image on Adam: and Gods covenant made with him. Whereunto is added an exhortation, to redeem the time for recovering our losses in the premisses. And also some miscellanies, viz. I. The prayer of faith. II. A preparative to the Lords Supper. III. The character of a sound Christian, in 17. markes. By T.H.	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1640 (1640)	STC 13726; ESTC S114073	99,925	398

of his skill upon him So the image of God in Adam is not so much in regard of the being of Adam as in this that hee was able to worke as God hee was partaker of the spirituall vertue of God he was able to know what was needfull and to will what ever he knew agreeable to Gods will Had God taken flesh upon him as indeed Christ tooke flesh upon him he would have so behaved himselfe and so approved of good courses being made after Gods Image as did Christ taking our flesh upon him in whom there was no guile Q. 2. Whether may any creature be said to be created in the image of God beside man Only men and angels made after Gods image An. No Creatures beside Men and Angels It is true that in all the frame of the creatures there is a stampe of the holinesse and power of God left passively there are footsteps of Gods goodnesse left in the creature but no creature is able actively to imitate God to have an holy wil and to walk answerably There is a great difference betweene a mans footsteps in the sand and his picture If his footsteps be in the sand we say A man hath been there but what his stature and proportion is no man can tell Draw a picture of the same man such parts and such lims this discovers what proportion he is of The other concludes the man was there but doth not discover his stature If a man should see that mans sonne just of his stature hee would then say There is the lively picture of his father So it is here in the creation of the World God leaves a foot-step of his attributes that every man may say Wisedome Goodnesse and power hath beene heere Psal 19.1 The Heavens declare the glory of God They as it were speak it and offer it to our consideration Rom. 1.19 That which may bee knowne of God is in them that is the foot-steps of God may bee observed in the creatures But the image of God in Adam was like a picture not a livelesse but a lively picture As the child that does like his father doth discover him somewhat So did Adam God he was able to expresse the vertues of God that had created him 1 Cor. 15.49 As wee have borne the image of the Earthly So we shall beare the image of the Heavenly All the sons of Adam had the image of Adam hee was stubborne so were they Now as we have this image from Adam so the saints have the image of Christ holy as he his holy Joh. 1.16 Of his fulnesse wee have received grace for grace What ever grace is in Christ he puts upon the hearts of his children There is never a letter on the seale but is on the wax So every grace that is in Christ is imprinted upon his Saints proportionably The creatures have three things in them 1. They are the effects of goodnesse 2. They shew them forth to the consideration of others 3. A wise man may see the foot-steps of Gods goodnesse in them The creature cannot be mercifull as God is mercifull the creature doth its nature the fire burnes the water moistens but no creature can expresse Gods goodnesse but Adam and the Angels Qu. What is the difference between the image and likenesse of God Ans The difference is this The one discovers the frame of the heart inwardly The spirituall power Adam had to work we terme the Image The discovery of this or the acting accordingly the Likenesse There is the power of Adam and the execution of this power the latter is Likenesse the former Image Let us make man after our c. As who should say Let us put a frame into Adams heart and then he shall walke answerably to it in all his courses Acts 13.22 it is said I have found a man after mine owne heart which shall doe all my will This is the description of a man after Gods owne heart hee does all his will God hath such an heart as Davids and if he were on earth would do as he did except his infirmities 1 Pet. 1.15 Be holy as your heavenly Father is holy in all manner of conversation He requireth not onely an inward frame but an outward expressure thereof God made Adam thus who as hee had a power in his heart so he expressed it in his life and wrought as God wrought which no creature else could Qu. But why did God make Adam thus Ans There is no reason on mans part but it was onely Gods will The Lord is an understanding agent therefore he workes all things for a good end And the reasons why God imprinted this Image in Adam are two Reasons why God made man after his image 1. That he might fit him for spirituall and heavenly worship God would have one creature neere to him one of his Privie Councell that might performe spiritual worship to him Now unlesse God had created Adam in his image he could not have performed spirituall worship to him as it was requisite God should make some creature so to doe John 4.24 God is a spirit and must bee worshiped in spirit and in truth None can approach to God but in a spirituall manner The trees grow and the beasts serve man they do their nature and grovell on the ground but reach not to God because they are not spirituall nor have they reasonable soules Looke as it is with great Princes though they imploy ordinary persons in ordinary affaires as their under officers Cookes and Groomes c. yet no man must be Secretary of State unlesse he have eminent and excellent abilities without which he cannot close with his Prince nor is fitted for him So it is true that the God of heaven hath all things at command and hee will worke sometimes wonders by them The heavens heare the earth the earth heares the corne and the corne heares Israel but none of these can worship God in prayer or the like but onely Adam who hath the image of God upon him Adam is Gods councellour He reveales his secrets to the righteous An holy man can close with an holy God they have union one with another No other creature can come to God but only man All creatures serve man that he may serve God The heavens heare the earth and the earth heares the corne and the corne heares man that man may serve the Lord. The text sayeth God seeing that in the frame of heaven and earth there was not a fit companion for man did therefore make woman such another as himselfe to be with man So neither had God one for his turne when Sun Moone and Stars and all things else were made therefore Father Sonne and holy-Ghost consult to make one that might be acquainted with the businesses of Heaven Againe God purposes to cōmunicate himselfe and his image to one creature that he serving God might be blessed of him God would communicate happiness to a creature and