Bible Discussion Thread

2 of 2 Chap 15

God as he ought, and he subverts them out from their pure virtue, feeding his lust in pride and voluptuousness, with that which should keep him from hunger and nakedness', and so pleasing the lust in all things more than satisfying pure nature, and this ought not to be, for it is out of the covenant of God, in which all creatures was made, and in which they stand, except the creature man, who is degenerated out of Gods covenant, and subverts all things to his own end, and not unto the glory of God, while he continues in that state unreconciled to God, but man being restored, and redeemed, and renewed again into covenant with God, through the condemning of the evil, then all creatures to him are restored, and made blessed, the curse being removed out of his own heart, the creatures are no longer cursed to him, but good and decent, and enjoyed, and received in the covenant of God in the life and virtue by which they were created, and by the wisdom which they were made, man comes to order them, and exercise himself in them, and no more are they spent upon the lust, nor on the vain mind, nor ruled over in oppression, but all that is condemned, and all creatures are seen to be the Lords, and the whole earth is his and the fullness thereof, and the abuse of all creatures is ceased, and they are enjoyed in their pure virtue to feed and to cloth the creature, and not to be destroyed upon the lust, but for the health's-sake are they used to the glory of the Creator, and unto the end wherefore he created them, and are pure as they were in the beginning; and the blessing is felt which is more than all creatures.