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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

freed from the guilt of sinne in justification from the slavery of sin in sanctification In Act. 8. when Peter was in the towne streets he perceived hee was not in a dreame but it was a thing reall so it is with thy soule Canst thou finde that God hath knockt off thy fetters then thou mayst know this is a realitie not a dreame of grace If Peter had dreamed he had been out of prison and had been fettered in the morning hee would have knowne hee had been in a dreame so thou hast dreamed that God hath renewed thee Are thy fetters of sin on thee then it was but a dream indeed and when thou awakest by death thou shalt see thy selfe bound up in chaines of darknesse Psalm 45.17 All the sonnes of God are Princes all Gods servants are free-men 1 Cor. 7.22 If thou art Christs thou art a free man to be carried uncontrollably to good though sinne and Sathan conspire against thee they shall never overcome thee but thou shalt still be victorious Qu. But what shall we say of many that seeme holy whose sinnes clogge thim heavily Where was Saint Pauls freedome when hee was led captive as hee speakes of himselfe Of the captivity of sin in the godly An. A man may be led captive and yet be free too This freedome in captivity appeares in three things 1. Though many times by the violence of Occasions the Saints are surprized yet they have hearts to approve of the good they cannot do This is that Saint Iames speaks of Chap. 1. ult If a man saith he hath Religion and sweareth and rayleth against Gods truth hee deceives himselfe but this is pure religion to keep a mans selfe unspotted Looke as it is with a City besieged when it is taken the enemies make those that are in the city sweare to their King if now a man resolves to take his death rather then the oath he keepes himselfe unspotted from treason So Sathan by long siege transports the heart unto the commission of evill yet the soule keepes it selfe untainted when it chuses the good it cannot do Deut. 22.25 if an adulterer offer a rape to a Virgin the sinne is his that forced her it lies not on the party forced so Sathan in a sort forceth the soule to the commission of evill if therefore thine heart beare it as a burthen the fault is Sathans and not thine 2. Yet the soule takes part with the word against both the temptations that would inveigle it the corruptions that would foyle it As it approveth all good so it joynes sides with the word against all evill Rom. 7.15 I doe the thing that I hate The spirit lusteth against the flesh the heart is resolved to die in the quarrell though it cannot prevaile as it would yet it will fight as it can 2 Cor. 13.8 I can doe nothing against the truth 3 The soule gets the upper hand of evill David was never adulterous more Peter never denied his master more the soule not onely reformes infirmities outwardly but subdues the distempers inwardly 1 Ioh. 5 18. Hee keepes himselfe that the evill one touch him not Rom. 8.2 The law of the Spirit sets a man free from the law of sin and of death Sathan saith Thou mayst be full of malice and spleen the law of meeknesse saith I will not bee full of spleen so also the law of humility takes off the law of pride Pro. 28.13 Hee that confesseth and forsaketh his sinne shall finde mercy the same phrase is used Gen. 2. The wife shall forsake father and mother The woman forsakes First the place and company Secondly the authority of father and mother Thirdly shee is not to perform what service they will require but what her husband requires so the soule must forsake the house of sin If thou wert married to Christ thou wouldst loathe the place and abhorre the society of those that goe down into hell themselves and lead others with them I say if a man were married to Christ hee would not bee under the authority of corruption but being delivered from the bondage of sinne will utterly forsake it To get liberty labour for holinesse Use 3. The third Use is of exhortation The former truth should force every soule to imploy the best of his endeavours to gaine this holinesse Will any man be a free man let him be an holy man Bee sure of the one and thou canst not misse of the other and where the one is not the other cannot bee Liberty should bee like a load-stone to draw us to it Nature hateth slavery then if we would bee freed from it let us get holinesse Experience teaches that the poor bird will beat her selfe to death rather then be kept in a Cage What poor shifts men in captivitie take to bee freed from those that are hard taskemasters over them our often Briefes shew Wee are all captives taken by the policy of Satan Let us make a gathering out of the stock of the prayers of Gods servants and let thine owne prayer bee Oh guide and direct mee how to get power against my corruptions How carefull are men to purchase the liberty of a Corporation and how highly doe they account of it when they have it In Acts 22.23 Saint Paul saith he purchased to be a free man of Rome with a great summe What slavish hearts have wee then when we may be incorporated into the body of Christ and will stick for a little Goe and sell that you have what ever it cost you that you may bee free men in Christianitie Christ saith Joh. 8.32 If you continue in my words you shall be free To continue in Gods word is to submit to the authority of the truth for if we doe thus we are free Rev. 6.2 And I saw and behold a white horse c. The white horse there is the truth It is called a white horse because of the purity of it and it prevailes wheresoever it comes Would you be free then let the Word prevaile in you Is it not every mans desire that when the strength of corruption and the violence of persecution presse in upon him then to be conquerour of all Labour then to get this image of God and you shall be above all things but God and be carried on incontrollably in a good course §. 7. NOw wee proceed to the image of God in the affections of Adam as love joy Of Gods image in the affections delight sorrow feare which are seated in the sensitive soule for all sensitive creatures have them The poore creature feares the whip and the creature againe sports and delights it selfe Now these Adam had and in these was the image of God Qu. What was the image of God in the affections of Adam Ans It appeared in that serviceable subjection What it is sweet agreement and submission which they did yeeld unto holy will and right reason The Understanding directed what should bee done the