to have enjoyed, had they continued in the likeness of God, and rested in him and in his will; who, as he was their author, was also to be their end. 3. It undoubtedly is the essential property of every image, that it be a just representation of the object which it is intended to express; and as the reflection in a mirror is vivid in a degree proportioned to the clearness of the mirror itself, so the image of God becomes more or less visible, according to the purity of the soul in which it is beheld.
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