Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org
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ancestors signified the same as "right-wise-ness," thorough wisdom; that which gave a man to distinguish between right and wrong: this is the wisdom which comes from above; and that man is the right-wise man who acts by its dictates. Right is straight; and wrong is crooked. Hence the righteous man is one who goes straight on or forward; acts and walks by line and rule: and the unrighteous is he who walks in crooked paths, does what is wrong, and is never guided by true wisdom. This power, and, with it, the propensity to act aright, was one of the characteristics of the human soul as it came out of the hand of God. It was created in knowledge and righteousness. 3. Holiness, piety toward God; heart worship, pure from hypocrisy and superstition; steady, uniform piety; worshipping God in spirit and in truth. This was another constituent of the image of God in which man was made. And he walked in truth. It was the holiness of truth, unsophisticated piety. Every feeling was a feeling of true piety; and every act of worship flowed from that feeling. This was a state of perfection. He knew every thing that belonged to his being and his duty perfectly; he acted perfectly; he walked in the right way; he went straight forward; he ever did what was lawful and right in the sight of God his Maker; he reverenced him in the highest degree; offered the purest worship from a pure and holy heart; and all was according to truth; there were no semblances, no outsides of piety; all was sterling, all substantial; all such as God could require; and with every act and feeling was the Lord pleased. It is not enough to say that God made all his works to show forth his glory. He had no need to contemplate his own works to be satisfied with the exertion of his power and wisdom. This would suppose that his gratification depended on his own work. He needs not the exertions of his eternal power and Godhead to minister to, or augment his happiness; for, although he can not but be pleased with every work of his hand, as all that he has created is very good, yet it was not for this end, but it was in reference to a great design, that they were created and still subsist. This design was the formation and eternal beatification of intelligent beings. He therefore made MAN in his own image and in his own likeness: he made him immortal, rational, and holy. He endowed him with intellectual
powers of the most astonishing compass. He made him capable of knowing the Author of his being in the glory of his perfections, and of deriving unutterable happiness from this knowledge. But he made him immortal, a transcript of his own eternity; he cannot wholly die—cannot be annihilated, but must exist, and exist intellectually, to all eternity. He has made him holy, that he might be for ever capable of union with HIM who is the Source and Fountain of all purity; and his eternal happiness is to consist in his eternal union with this Being; seeing him as he is, knowing him in his own light, and endlessly receiving additional degrees of knowledge and happiness out of his fulness. The soul of man was made in the image and likeness of God. Now, as the divine Being is infinite, he is neither limited by parts, nor definable by passions; therefore he can have no corporeal image after which he made the body of man. The image and likeness must necessarily be intellectual; his mind, his soul, must have been formed after the nature and perfections of his God. The human mind is still endowed with most extraordinary capacities; it was more so when issuing out of the hands of its Creator. God was now producing spirit, and a spirit too formed after the perfections of his own nature. God is the Fountain whence this spirit issued: hence the stream must resemble the spring which produced it. God is holy, just, wise, good, and perfect; so must the soul be that sprang from him; there could be in it nothing impure, unjust, ignorant, evil, low, base, mean, or vile. It was created after the image of God; and that image, St. Paul tells us, consisted in righteousness, true holiness, and knowledge. Hence man was wise in his mind, holy in his heart, and righteous in his actions. Were even the word of God silent on this subject, we could not infer less from the lights held out to us by reason and common sense. The text, Gen. i, 26, tells us he was the work of ELOHIM, the divine plurality, marked here more distinctly by the plural pronouns, US and OUR; and, to show that he was the masterpiece of God's creation, all the persons in the Godhead are represented as united in counsel and effort to produce this astonishing creature.
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powers of the most astonishing compass. He made him capable of<br />
knowing the Author of his being in the glory of his perfections, and of<br />
deriving unutterable happiness from this knowledge. But he made him<br />
immortal, a transcript of his own eternity; he cannot wholly die—cannot<br />
be annihilated, but must exist, and exist intellectually, to all eternity. He<br />
has made him holy, that he might be for ever capable of union with HIM<br />
who is the Source and Fountain of all purity; and his eternal happiness is<br />
to consist in his eternal union with this Being; seeing him as he is,<br />
knowing him in his own light, and endlessly receiving additional degrees<br />
of knowledge and happiness out of his fulness.<br />
The soul of man was made in the image and likeness of God. Now, as<br />
the divine Being is infinite, he is neither limited by parts, nor definable<br />
by passions; therefore he can have no corporeal image after which he<br />
made the body of man. The image and likeness must necessarily be<br />
intellectual; his mind, his soul, must have been formed after the nature<br />
and perfections of his God. The human mind is still endowed with most<br />
extraordinary capacities; it was more so when issuing out of the hands of<br />
its Creator. God was now producing spirit, and a spirit too formed after<br />
the perfections of his own nature. God is the Fountain whence this spirit<br />
issued: hence the stream must resemble the spring which produced it.<br />
God is holy, just, wise, good, and perfect; so must the soul be that sprang<br />
from him; there could be in it nothing impure, unjust, ignorant, evil, low,<br />
base, mean, or vile. It was created after the image of God; and that image,<br />
St. Paul tells us, consisted in righteousness, true holiness, and knowledge.<br />
Hence man was wise in his mind, holy in his heart, and righteous in his<br />
actions. Were even the word of God silent on this subject, we could not<br />
infer less from the lights held out to us by reason and common sense. The<br />
text, Gen. i, 26, tells us he was the work of ELOHIM, the divine plurality,<br />
marked here more distinctly by the plural pronouns, US and OUR; and, to<br />
show that he was the masterpiece of God's creation, all the persons in the<br />
Godhead are represented as united in counsel and effort to produce this<br />
astonishing creature.
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