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Now therefore, if it be so, that This is what Jesus Christ, our great Redeemer and the Head of the Church, did so much desire, and set his Heart upon, from all Eternity, and which he did and suffered so much for, offering up strong Crying and Tears, and his precious Blood, ⟨p. 50⟩to obtain it; surely his Disciples and Members should also earnestly seek it, and be much and earnest in Prayer for it.

Now therefore, if it be so, that This is what Iesus Christ, our great Redeemer and the Head of the Church, did so much desire, and set his Heart upon, from all Eternity, and which he did and suffered so much for, offering up strong Crying and Tears, and his precious Blood, ⟨p. 50⟩to obtain it; surely his Disciples and Members should also earnestly seek it, and be much and earnest in Prayer for it.

Let it be considered,

4. The whole Creation is, as it were, earnestly waiting for that Day, and constantly groaning and travailing in Pain to bring forth the Felicity and Glory of it. For that Day is above all other Times, excepting the Day of Judgment, the Day of the Manifestation of the Sons of God, and of their glorious Liberty: And therefore that elegant Representation the Apostle makes of the earnest Expectation and Travail of the Creation, in Rom. viii.19,—22. is applicable to the glorious Events of this Day; The earnest Expectation of the Creature waiteth for the Manifestation of the Sons of God. For the Creature was made subject to Vanity, not willingly, but by Reason of him who hath subjected the same in Hope. Because the Creature itself also shall be delivered from the Bondage of Corruption into the glorious Liberty of the Children of God. For we know that the whole Creation groaneth and travaileth in Pain together until now. This visible World has now for many Ages been subjected to Sin, and made as it were a Servant to it, through' the abusive Improvement that Man, who has the Dominion over the Creatures, put the Creatures to. Thus the Sun is a Sort of Servant to all Manner of Wickedness, as it's Light and other beneficial Influences are abused by Men, and made subservient to their Lusts and sinful Purposes. So of the Rain, and Fruits of the Earth, and the Brute-Animals, and all other Parts of the visible Creation; they all serve Men's Corruption, and obey their sinful Will; and God doth in a Sort subject them