The Doctor therefore, instead of appealing to two things in man, his shape and his reason, as his true distinction from beasts, should have said, by the authority of _Moses_, that only one thing was peculiar to man, as his glorious distinction both from fallen angels, and terrestrial animals, and _that_ one thing is, his being created in the image and likeness of God. As to his outward shape, considered only as different from other animals, there is but little distinction in it; because they are as different in shape from one another, as man is from them all. And if man at his creation had had no higher a guest within him, than his reason, his shape would have been little better, than that of a fox, or a serpent. For reason, when not under the government of a higher principle, is that same craft, and cunning, _that_ is visible in variety of beasts; and is for the most part, as earthly an instrument of mischievous passions, and lusts in man, as it is in beasts. And what is more, it must be so, till it comes under the government of _that_, which was the _image and likeness_ of God, in the first creation of man. * What is the difference between reason in St. _Paul_, a _Spinosa_, a _Hobbes_, or a _Bolingbroke_? None at all, or no other than in their outward shape. Therefore if reason be the divine image and likeness of God in man, a _Hobbes_ and a _Bolingbroke_, had as much of it as St. _Paul_. And a man that is all his life long reasoning himself into atheism, and the wisdom of living according to his own lusts, must be allowed to give daily proof of his having the image and likeness of God, very powerfully manifested in him. The Doctor’s great proof, that reason is the image and likeness of God, is because _Moses_ immediately adds, _Let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of heaven, and over the beasts of the earth_. “For what, says he, could invest man with this dominion _de facto_, as well as _de jure_, but his reason?”¹ ¹ D. L. page 554. Our blessed Lord, at leaving the world, saith, “These signs shall follow them that believe; in my name, they shall cast out devils, they shall speak with new tongues, they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.” Now let it be asked, _what could invest the believers in Christ with this dominion_ de facto, _as well as_ de jure, _but their reason_? Both this question, and the solution of it, is just as sound, and theological as the Doctor’s.