Things that we receive at God's hand
come to us as things from the minting-house, though old in
themselves, yet new to us. Old truths are always new to us, if they
come to us with the smell of heaven upon them.
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
arise from thoughts most deep and ponderous. He never yet knew what
belonged to great and deep thoughts, that is a stranger to
soul-concerns.
The soul is capable of having to do with invisibles, with angels,
good or bad, yea, with the highest and supreme Being, even the holy
God of heaven. I told you before that God sought the soul of man to
have it for his companion; and now I tell you that the soul is
capable of communion with him, when the darkness that sin hath
spread over its face is removed.
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