[2.] Think upon man. Man is not only the creature of God, but the image of God. One calls man the masterpiece of nature ; it is good to consider ourselves; there is nothing nearer to ourselves than ourselves. Man, as he is the image of God, so he is the image of the world, the short draft and model of all the rest of the world. Look upon soul and body, all is lull of wonders. In the body to consider the excellent symmetry and proportion of all the parts, how the joints and muscles are ordered for the service and beauty of the whole frame, the outward shape and the inward motion full of wonder. Oh, how excel- lent a painter is the creator, that can draw such an image out of the dust, and scarce two men alike in face ! to see so many millions in the -world, and everyone known from the other by some notable mark of difference in the face ; yet the outward part is nothing to the inward parts. It is reported of Galen, that great physician, when he was cutting up a man, and saw the wise disposing of all the entrails, cer- tainly, says he, He that made man doth not requii-e the sacrifice of beasts, but only to admire his wisdom, goodness, and power. The psalmist saith : Ps. cxxxix. 14, ' I am fearfully and wonderfully made.' There is much of God in our very bodies. You will say, om* bodies we have them from our parents ; no, you shall see all we had from our parents was but a title to the first Adam's guilt and sin, and a pledge
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of misery and of our everlastino: imhappiness ; we have nothing; else. Our parents of themselves could not form such an excellent body ; therefore not only the soul but the body is of Grod ; they are but lower servants, God himself was the architect, the wise builder. It thy parents could form thy body, then they could tell how many muscles there are, and how they are placed in the body, how many veins and sinews, how many bones greater and lesser ; but they know not, it is a thing of chance to their work, therefore it is the exact composure of God. Besides, if thy parents could make thy body, then they could repair it when it is wounded, and restore it when sick. He that makes a watch can mend it when it is broken and discomposed. It is God alone that made it. Then for the soul, there is the chief part of man. There is nothing nearer to God than the soul but only the angels, therefore we can hardly know him by the creature without considering our own souls. This leaves man without excuse ; he had a rational soul to know his creator. Thy soul is a spirit as God is, in the same rank of being. The sun is not a spirit. Those glorious bodies that shine in the heavens, they are not advanced to the nobleness with thy soul. Then thy soul is invisible as God is ; you may as well deny your own soul as deny God is because he cannot be seen. Thy soul is immortal and incorruptible, as God is. In the very essence of thy soul there is much of God to be seen, in the operations of the soul, it is in every part of the body ; iota in tofo, et tola in qualibet 'parte ; all in all parts, and all in the whole ; so God fills all the world, for he is everywhere, and yet nowhere in a sense. When a member is withered or cut off, the soul suffers no loss : so the Lord in all the changes of the world suffers nothing ; sometimes he lets out his good- ness in the creature, and sometimes the creature is destroyed, yet there is no alteration in God. And then who can trace the several traverses and flights of reason ? The soul cannot only hear, see, smell, and taste, but it can discourse also of things invisible, the essence of God and angels. If there were nothing to discover God in your soiils, and the impressions of God upon your souls, yet the several arts and crafts that are abroad in the world, (these inventions are common, therefore less observed), how could these things be found out? they display the wisdom of God. For to instance in common things : in the craft of husbandry, who doth not admire to see the various inventions in husbandry and gardening, in ordering the corn and fruits of the earth, Isa. xxviii. from ver. 24 to the end ? He concludes all, ver. 29, ' This also Cometh forth from the Lord of hosts.' And so for the smith's craft : Isa. liv. 16, ' I have created the smith that bloweth the coals,' kc. It is God that teacheth to cast iron into various shapes and figures. The inventors of arts among the heathens they counted gods. It is God teacheth men curious inventions. It is true, other creatures have their arts, but nothing like man. The birds curiously build their nests, the foxes dig their holes, and the little spider can make a curious web to catch flies, but they do these things by instinct of nature, and therefore do them always in one and the same manner ; but the arts of man are various and innumerable. I^othing can escape that which the wit of man cannot take, neither birds by their flight, nor beasts with their greatness, nor fishes in the depth of the water : James iii. 7,