The Following is a portion of Rev. John Wesley's sermon , The General Deliverance. Sermon #60. "While His creatures 'travail in pain' He knoweth all their pain, and is bringing them nearer and nearer to the birth, which shall be accomplished in its season. He seeth 'the earnest expectation' wherewith the whole animal creation 'waiteth for' that final 'manifestation of the sons of GOD,' in which 'they themselves also shall be delivered' (not by being annihilated; annihilation is not deliverance) from the present corruption, into a measure of the glorious liberty of the children of GOD. The whole brute creation will then, undoubtedly, be restored, not only to the vigor, strength, and swiftness which they had at their creation, but to a far higher degree of each than they ever enjoyed. They will be restored, not only to that measure of understanding which they had in paradise, but to a degree of it as much much higher than that, as the understanding of an elephant is beyond that of a worm. And whatever affections they had in the Garden of GOD, will be restored with vast increase; being exalted and refined in a manner which we ourselves are not now able to comprehend."
To GOD be the glory, greater things He will do! Hallelujah to His Holy Name!
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