. Of the liberty proper to man’s nature, and the servitude introduced by sin—a servitude in which the man whose will is wicked is the slave of his own lust, though he is free so far as regards other men This is prescribed by the order of nature: it is thus that God has created man. For “let them,” He says, “have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every creeping thing which creepeth on the earth.”1 He did not intend that His rational creature, who was