sin and wickedness; and also by “corruption” [Rom. 8:21], as might be shewn in very many places, would my intended brevity allow. Though the creature is thus subject to vanity, yet it don’t rest in this subjection, but is constantly acting and exerting itself, in order to that glorious liberty that God has appointed at the time we are speaking of, and as it were reaching forth towards it. All the changes that are brought to pass in the world, from age to age, are ordered in infinite wisdom in one