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...v. 7, 51:8, 12; Jer. 17:5; 1 Cor. 3:20; 1 Tim. 6:7; Heb. 2:6; 1 Pet. 1:24. Subject to death (Ps. 89:49; 1 Sam. 6:9; Eccles. 3:2, 10, 9:3, 10, 11; Rom. 5:12; Heb. 9:27; 1 Cor. 15:15; 1 Thess. 4:15). The parts of man are soul and body (Matt. 10:28; 1 Thess. 5:25). Not created in vain (Ps. 89 and 48). The hearts of men are in the hand of God (Gen. 31:24, 43:14; Exod. 4:21, 7:3; Lev. 26:36; Deut. 2:30, 28:65; John 11:20; Judg. 9:23; 1 Sam. 10:26, 11:16; 2 Sam. 17:14; 1 Kings 8:58, 18:37; 2 Chron. 36:32; 1 Ezra 1:1, 5, 6:22, 7:26; Neh. 7:5; Job 12:20, 24; Ps. 33:15, 105:25, 106:44, 46, 107:40, 119:36; Prov. 15:11, 16:7, 21:1; Isa. 1:26, 7:18, 10:15, 63:17; Jer. 24:7; Ezek. 7:26, 11:19, 12:13; Dan. 1:9; Hag. 1:14; Mark 11:3, 6; Acts 2:17, 47, 7:10; 2 Cor. 8:16; 2 Thess. 2:10; Rev. 17:17). The hearts of men are tested by God (Prov. 17:3, 21:2). He purifies them by faith (Acts 15:9). The excellence of man over the rest of God's creatures (Ps. 8:6; Matt. 2:26, 12:12; Heb. 2:7, etc.). Concerning this excellence and likeness, our discourse shall be.

Lucius Apuleius, in On the God of Socrates: Nothing is more similar or pleasing to God than a man who is good in his perfect soul, who excels other men, because he differs from the immortal gods, etc.

Crollius, that philosopher, says: Just as God is the center and circle of all things produced by Himself (for the works of all Divine goodness are circular and perfect, spherically rotated toward Him from whom they have proceeded), a center because all things flow from Him, and because the essence of all things permeates all things: But a circle, because, like an all-containing tabernacle, He concludes and embraces all things; for all things are within God, outside of whom there is nothing, both before the production of things and after the production of things, this visible world having been removed. So also man, in imitation of his Creator, is the center of creatures and the circle of them all. For not only do all things in the world-machine look to him as their leader and ruler, for whom all things were also created; but even above him, as a midpoint and anchor, all spheres pour out their rays, operations, flexions, reflexions, and influxes; and likewise all creatures pour out their powers. Man is called a circle because he contains all creatures within himself, and reduces all things flowing from the Supreme Good back to the source of eternity, from which each originally flowed and emanated.