"[W]e are also of [Adam's] off-spring; not that I conceive (as some blasphemously have done) that he was made out of the very essence of God, but because the image of the divine nature, is most lively imprinted in his soul and in his body, and in the substance & qualities of them both. For the Soul, it carrieth a deep stamp of divinity in the simplicity, invisibility, & immortality thereof."
— Crooke, Helkiah (1576-1648)
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Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by William Iaggard
Date
1615
Metaphor
"[W]e are also of [Adam's] off-spring; not that I conceive (as some blasphemously have done) that he was made out of the very essence of God, but because the image of the divine nature, is most lively imprinted in his soul and in his body, and in the substance & qualities of them both. For the Soul, it carrieth a deep stamp of divinity in the simplicity, invisibility, & immortality thereof."
Metaphor in Context
[...] For, whereas in the creation of the Heauens and the Earth, and the furnitures and armies of them both, the great Architect wrought them all by his thought, worde, and deede, all falling into one instant of time: when he was to make Man, he holds a Councell, Come let vs make Man according vnto our owne Image; summoning thereunto, not only himselfe and all his atributes, as his power, his wisedome, his iustice, his loue and mercy, if not to cast in some part, yet to lend some influence of their diuine Natures toward his creation, but also his Son and the blessed Spirit: as if Man were a kinde of production of the whole Deity, or as the Poet saith, Magnum Iouis incrementum; which I am the rather bolde to say, because the learned Apostle vsurpeth the very words of another Poet to the selfe-same purpose, [GREEK], wee are also of his off-spring; not that I conceiue (as some blasphemously haue done) that hee was made out of the very essence of God, but because the image of the diuine nature, is most liuely imprinted in his soule and in his body, and in the substance & qualities of them both. For the Soule, it carrieth a deepe stampe of diuinity in the simplicity, inuisibility, & immortality thereof: That it is incorporeall and diffusiue, quickning, sustaining, gouerning and moouing the whole body, and euery part thereof, euen as God supporteth and ruleth the whole world, being by a diffusiue nature, or rather infinite omni-presence, at all times, in euery place: That as the Deity is but one in essence, yet distinct in persons, according to the Relatiue qualities therein, which yet hath neither different matters, nor formes (as we say) but are all one and the same essence; so the soule of man is but one, yet that one, consisting of three essentiall and distinct Faculties or powers, intellectual, sensitiue, and vegetatiue; which yet make no difference in the substance thereof, that it should not bee one and an entire soule. Againe, in the intellectuall part or power, there are two essentiall attributes resembling their prototype or originall in God, to wit, Knowledge and Will. As for the qualities of the soule, they are either internall, or externall. The internall, carry the image of the Creator, as S. Paul interpreteth it, in heauenly wisedome, iustice, and sanctity; the externall, in maiesty, dominion, and soueraignty ouer the creatures; both which, the Poet hath excellently put together, where he speaketh of mans creation, after the rest of the creatures.
(I, p. 2)
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Citation
Helkiah Crooke, ΜΙΚΡΟΚΟΣΜΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ: A Description of the Body of Man (London: Printed by William Iaggard, 1615). <Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
09/27/2011
