Stephen Charnock on the natural and spiritual image of God

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A spiritual knowledge is always attended with a spiritual life; a new man, and such a knowledge as is after the image of God, go together: Col. iii. 10, ‘Having put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him.’ As the natural image of God consisted in understanding and will, so the spiritual image of God by grace consists in a rectifying those faculties; the understanding with a spiritual knowledge, and the will with a spiritual bias. The faculties we have from God as creator by nature, the operation of those faculties about their proper spiritual objects we have by grace. ...

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