So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Ver. 27. So God created man in his own image.] There is a double image of God in the soul. One in the substance of it, whereof I have spoken in the former verse. The other in the qualities and supernatural graces, of knowledge in the understanding, rightness or straitness in the will, and holiness in the affections. In all these, man, when he came first out of God's mint, shone most gloriously. O! quantum haec Niobe, &c. But now, Oh, think of this burnt temple, and mourn, as they in Ezra Ezr 3:12 Ebur candidissimum, adhibito igne, nigrescit.