Poemata sacra Latinae & Anglicae scripta [by John Saltmarsh] |
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Chap. IV. The Image of God in man.
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Chap. IV. The Image of God in man.
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Chap. IV. The Image of God in man.
God had an Image before man was knownOr quick'nd out of dust, that wore his own
Feature of Deitie, one whom he bred
Out of his own Divinitie, and shed
From his indivisible essence, who
Was coindivisible with him too,
Who shar'd with him his autousie, and was
His most indistant Image, more then as
The Sonne of man: he did communicate
Himself all infinite to him; his date
Was from eternitie, who after knit
Another essence to his own: from it
Resulted that hypostasis. Man's made
According to his image. Who can wade
With pen to the first image, and betray
The true representation? let me stay,
And waken'd from a rapture cry, A blisse
Too infinite, too finite I for this.
Yet we have shadows: thus a Schoolman paints,
Though his weak pencill on his paper faints.
Gods Image, as the kings, is in his Sonne,
Who's of his own specifick essence, one
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Is like his coin, upon whose face he can
Stamp his own character: they differ much;
In form and essence it presents none such.
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Chap. IV. The Image of God in man.
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