Man, alone of all creatures, made in God's Image-from the
consideration of the affinity, resulting from the correspondence
between man's needs and God's fulness, we pass to the affinity
involved in man's filial relationship to God-man's likeness to
God-I. in the constitution of his nature-human nature presents
an image of the Trinity in Unity-" body, soul, and spirit," their
distinctness, and yet their unity in each man-the mystery of the
Divine Nature hardly greater than that of the human-II. in his
natural powers-(a) intellectual-man a creator in art, in poetry, in
music, in civilization generally-the lower animals only producers
(b) in his moral powers-free-will, with the rational counsel
involved in it-how a firm assurance of the self-determining power
of the will may be of service to us in the moment of temptation-
how the fact that all men are made in God's Image, and thus bear
marks of sonship to Him, is compatible with the Scriptural ascrip-
tion of sonship only to the believing and baptized—man, originally