IV. MAN.

THE IMAGE OF GOD.





MAN is God's image, and to curse wickedly the image of God, is to
curse God himself. Suppose that a man should say with his mouth, I
wish that the king's picture were burned; would not this man's so
saying render him as an enemy to the person of the king? Even so it
is with them that by cursing wish evil to their neighbors or
themselves; they contemn the image of God himself.

This world, as it dropped from the fingers of God, was far more
glorious than it is now.

VALUE OF THE SOUL.

The soul is a thing, though of most worth, least minded by most. The
souls of most lie waste, while all other things are inclosed.

Soul-concerns are concerns of the highest nature, and concerns that