formed for the dignity of thy state, when, creating and ordering the universal frame of the visible and the invisible creation, He determined to make man; for He determined to lavish richer honours on man’s nature than on all other creations in the universe. Behold thy lofty origin, and bethink thee of the due of love thou owest thy Creator. ‘Let Us make man,’ said God, ‘to Our Image and Likeness’ (Gen. 1:26). If thou awakest not at this word, O my soul; if thou art not all aflame with love of Him
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