Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... The creatures made according to the image of God, are Angels, and men. Angels, are created, understanding, and invisible spirits, neither sustained in any other (excepting in God alone) neither part of another. And Angels are either good or evil. Good Angels, are Angels which have stood in their integrity in which they were made.
Their free will, is to good things only, because they are already so confirmed in goodness, that their mind cannot be deceived, nor err in judging, that is to say, in approving, & misliking the object, neither can the will desire any other thing, then that which the mind judgeth, but choose that which it approveth, refuse and reject that which it misliketh. Job. 4.18. Mat. 22.30. 1. Tim. 5.21. Ephes. 1.10. Col. 1.20.
The duty of good Angels is two fold: either towards God, or men. Their duty towards God is of two sorts: the first to do God’s will. Psal. 103.20. The second to set forth God by continual praises. Psal. 103.20. and 148.2. ...
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Their free will, is to good things only, because they are already so confirmed in goodness, that their mind cannot be deceived, nor err in judging, that is to say, in approving, & misliking the object, neither can the will desire any other thing, then that which the mind judgeth, but choose that which it approveth, refuse and reject that which it misliketh. Job. 4.18. Mat. 22.30. 1. Tim. 5.21. Ephes. 1.10. Col. 1.20.
The duty of good Angels is two fold: either towards God, or men. Their duty towards God is of two sorts: the first to do God’s will. Psal. 103.20. The second to set forth God by continual praises. Psal. 103.20. and 148.2. ...
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Amandus Polanus on the image of God and angels
The Image of God, is that dignity, and excellency, in which the reasonable creatures, being created like unto God, do excel other creatures. Of this Image of God there are two parts, perfect reason…
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