“If respect to the Divine Being is of any importance, then speculative points are of importance, for the only way we can know what he is, is by speculation.”
Dr. Woods, for near half a century a leading theological teacher of New England, says:
“All our particular conceptions of God may be found to take their rise from the conceptions we form of created intelligences.”
Dr. Emmons, a distinguished New England divine, says of man:
“In the very frame and constitution of his nature he still bears the natural image of his Maker. In a word, man is the living image of the living God, in whom is displayed more of the divine nature and glory than in all the works and creatures of God upon earth.”
Dr. Taylor, the New Haven divine, says:
“The only ultimate source of knowledge, and ultimate umpire of truth, is the knowing mind.”
The celebrated Scotch metaphysician, Sir W. Hamilton, says:
“We can know God only as we know ourselves.”
In proof of this from the Bible, these writers quote from the Apostle James, that “men are made after the similitude of God.”