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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 ⟨p. 51⟩to it; for he continues his Influence and Power to make them to be obedient, according to the same Law of Nature whereby they yield to Men's Command when used to good Purposes. 'Tis by the immediate Influence of God upon Things, acting upon them, according to those constant Methods that we call the Laws of Nature, that they are ever obedient to Man's Will, or that we can use 'em at all. This Influence God continues, to make them obedient to Men's Will, tho' wicked. Which is a sure Sign that the present State of Things is not lasting: It is Confusion; and God would not suffer it to be, but that he designs in a little Time to put an End to it, when it shall no more be so. Seeing it is to be but a little while, God chooses rather to subject the Creature to Man's Wickedness, than to disturb and interrupt the Course of Nature according to it's stated Laws: