Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

All those things which were the effects of sin, will be abolished; the removal of the Cause beats down the effect. The disorder and unruliness of the Creature arising from the venom of Mans transgression, all the fierceness of one Creature ⟨p. 645⟩against another shall vanish. The World shall be nothing but an universal smile; Nature shall put on triumphant Vestments: There shall be no affrighting Thunders, choking Mists, venomous Vapours, or poisonous Plants. It would not else be a restitution of all things. They are now subject to be wasted by Judgments for the sin of their Possessor, but the perfection of Mans Redemptions shall free them from every misery. They have an advancement at the present; for they are under a more glorious head, as being the possession of Christ the heavenly Adam much superior to the first: As it's the glory of a person to be a Servant to a Prince, rather than a Peasant. And afterwards they shall be elevated to a better state, sharing in Man's happiness, as well as they did in his misery; As Servants are interested in the good Fortune of their Master, and bettered by his advance in his Princes favour. As Man in his first Creation was mutable and liable to sin, so the Creatures were liable to vanity; But as Man by Grace shall be freed from the Mutability, so shall the Creatures be freed from the fears of an Invasion, by the vanity that sullied them before. The condition of the Servants shall be suited to that of their Lord, for whom they were designed: Hence all Creatures are called upon to rejoice upon the Perfection of Salvation, and the appearance of Christs Royal Authority in the World.^* If they were to be destroyed, there would be no ground to invite them to triumph. Thus doth Divine Goodness spread its kind Arms over the whole Creation.

All those things which were the effects of sin, will be abolisht; the removal of the Cause beats down the effect. The disorder and unruliness of the Creature arising from the venom of Mans transgression, all the fierceness of one Creature ⟨p. 645⟩against another shall vanish. The World shall be nothing but an universal smile; Nature shall put on triumphant Vestments: There shall be no affrighting Thunders, choaking Mists, venomous Vapours, or poysonous Plants. It would not else be a restitution of all things. They are now subject to be wasted by Judgments for the sin of their Possessor, but the perfection of Mans Redemptions shall free them from every misery. They have an advancement at the present; for they are under a more glorious head, as being the possession of Christ the heavenly Adam much superiour to the first: As it's the glory of a person to be a Servant to a Prince, rather than a Peasant. And afterwards they shall be elevated to a better state, sharing in Man's happiness, as well as they did in his misery; As Servants are interested in the good Fortune of their Master, and better'd by his advance in his Princes favour. As Man in his first Creation was mutable and liable to sin, so the Creatures were liable to vanity; But as Man by Grace shall be freed from the Mutability, so shall the Creatures be freed from the fears of an Invasion, by the vanity that sully'd them before. The condition of the Servants shall be suited to that of their Lord, for whom they were design'd: Hence all Creatures are call'd upon to rejoice upon the Perfection of Salvation, and the appearance of Christs Royal Authority in the World.