Wesley Corpus

God regards his meanest creatures much; but he regards man much more. He does not equally regard a hero and a sparrow; the best of men and the lowest of brutes. "How much more does your heavenly Father care for you!" says He "who is in the bosom of his Father." Those who thus strain the point, are clearly confuted by his question, "Are not ye much better than they" Let it suffice, that God regards everything that he hath made, in its own order, and in proportion to that measure of his own image which he has stamped upon it. 6. May I be permitted to mention here a conjecture concerning the brute creation What, if it should then please the all-wise, the all-gracious Creator to raise them higher in the scale of beings What, if it should please him, when he makes us "equal to angels," to make them what we are now, -- creatures capable of God; capable of knowing and loving and enjoying the Author of their being If it should be so, ought our eye to be evil because he is good However this be, he will certainly do what will be most for his own glory. 7. If it be objected to all this, (as very probably it will,) "But of what use will those creatures be in that future state" I answer this by another question, What use are they of now If there be (as has commonly been supposed) eight thousand species of insects, who is able to inform us of what use seven thousand of them are If there are four thousand species of fishes, who can tell us of what use are more than three thousand of them If there are six hundred sorts of birds, who can tell of what use five hundred of those species are If there be four hundred sorts of beasts, to what use do three hundred of them serve Consider this; consider how little we know of even the present designs of God; and then you will not wonder that we know still less of what he designs to do in the new heavens and the new earth.