in his owne likenesse] Here seemeth to be an opposition betwixt Gods Image and mans: God by creation made man in his Image, but man by procreation begets one not in Gods, but in his owne Image; that is, not onely like him in condition as a man, but in his corruption as a sinner, Job 14:4. for generation in the flesh and regeneration in the spirit proceed from different principles, that being humane, this divine; nor so in his owne likenesse as that his soule was begotten by Adam as well as his body; for as at first the soule had a different originall from that of the body which was not deduced out of the matter of which it consisted, but infused into the body afterwards; so hath it beene in the generation of man ever since: wherefore the fathers of our flesh, and the fathers of our spirit are expresly distinguished, Hebrews 12:9. See Numbers 16:22.