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Therewith bless we God; pray, and speak well of God.
Even the Father; of Christ, and in him of all true believers.
And therewith curse we men; rail on, revile, speak evil of, as well as wish evil to.
Which are made after the similitude of God; either:
1. Saints in whom God’s image is anew restored; or rather:
2. Men more generally, who, though they have lost that spiritual knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness in which that image of God, after which man was created, principally consists; yet still have some relics of his image continuing in them.
This is added to aggravate the sin; speaking evil of men made after God’s image, is speaking evil of God obliquely, and by reflection.