For it was not any thing of their own, but solely the name, that is, power of Christ dwelling, and operating in them, that invested them with the dominion over devils, serpents, diseases, and all outward deadly, or hurtful things. Now _that_ which gave this power, to the believers in Christ, was _that very same_, which gave to the first perfect man, a _power of ruling_ over all the creatures of this world, and of living in full superiority and dominion over all that was, or could be hurtful, and deadly, in fire, or water, heat or cold, or any elementary things. So _that Adam_ whilst standing in his first state of glory, and power, had the same reason to say of all _that_ he was, and did, that which St. _Paul_ said, yet _not I, but Christ that liveth in me_. And how the Doctor came to think of any other power, as the _ability_ of man to _rule_ over the creatures, is very strange, since the gospel has so plainly told him, _that they only are the children of God, who are led by the Spirit of God_. If therefore the first man, created in the image and likeness of God, may be supposed by his creation, to have been a child of God, then sure is it, that he had the _Spirit of God_, living and working in him. And that surely may be allowed to have been his _true_ and his only qualification, to have and exercise a dominion over the rest of the creation. The Doctor, in order to find out _that_ image, and likeness of God in man, of which _Moses_ writes, looks into the constitution of that _two-legged_ animal, who is the _disputer of the world_. As likely to succeed, as if in order to find out _that paradise_, of which _Moses_ writes, he should search for it in the _hundreds_ of _Essex_, or in the _wilds_ of _Kent_. For _Moses_, to prevent the folly of looking for the divine image in any thing, that is _natural_ to the _present_ state of man, has given us assurance, that _this first_ man, created in the image of God, died the very day that he did eat of the forbidden tree. And that nothing of this divine man remained but terrors within, and such a figure of himself, as filled him with shame and confusion. And a greater than _Moses_ has told us, _that_ man, in his present _natural state_, is so dead to that first divine glory, that he has no possibility of entering into the kingdom of God till he is born again from above. This sufficiently shews _that_ he who will find out in what the image of God in man consisted, must as the apostle saith, _walk by faith and not by sight_. The next text of _Moses_, which the Doctor miserably injures, is thus quoted by him, “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into him the breath of life, and man became a living soul; that is, say the objectors, had an immortal soul.”