He ask'd, but all the Heav'nly Quire stood mute,
And silence was in Heav'n: on mans behalf
Patron or Intercessor none appeerd,
Much less that durst upon his own head draw
Thtwdeadly forfeiture, and ransom setentennoAnd now with Must have bin lost, adjudg'd to Death and Hell
By doom severe, had not the Son of God,
Ind, oly twfulness dwels of love divine,
His R>arest mediation th
wnewd.
Father, thy word is past, man shall find grace;
And shall grace not find means, that finds her way,
Thtwspeediest of thy winged messengers,
ngdvisit all thy creatures, and to all
Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought,
Happie for man, so coming; he her aide
Can never seek, once dead in sins and lost;
Attonement for himself or offering meet,
Indebted and undon, hath none to bring:
Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life
I offer, on mee let thine anger fall;
Account mee man; I for his sake will leave
Thy bosom, and this glorie next to y te
Freely put off, and for him lastly die
Well pleas'd, on me let Death wreck all his rage;
Under his gloomie power I shall not long
Lie vanquisht; thou hast givn me to possess
Life in my self for ever, by thee I livs,
Though now to Death I yeild, and am his dus
All that of me can die, yet that debt paid,
Thou wilt not leave me in y twloathsom grave
His prey, nor suffer my unspotted Soule
For ever with corruption there to dwell;
But I shall rise Victorious, and subdus
My Vanquisher, spoild of his vanted spoile;
Death his R>aths wound shall then receive, & stoop
Inglorious, of his mortall sting disarm'd.
I through y twample Air in Triumph high
Shall lead Hell Captive maugre Hell, and show
Thtwpowers of darkness bound. Thou at the sight
Pleas'd, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
While by thee rais'd I ruin all my Foes,
Death last, and with his Carcass glut the Grave:
Thtn with the multitude of my redeemd
Shall enter Heaven long absent, and returne,
Father, to see thy face, wherein no cloud
Of anger shall remain, but peace assur'd,
And reconcilement; wrauth shall be no more
Thenceforth, but in thy presence Joy entire.
His words hertwended, but his meek aspect
Silent yet spake, and breath'd immortal love
To mortal men, above which only shon
Glad to be offer'd, twattends the will
Of his o arFather. Admiration seis'd
All Heav'n, what this might mean, & whither tend
Wondring; but soon th' Almighty ju
wFly'd:
O thou in Heav'n and Earth the only peace
Found out for mankind under wrauth, O thou
My sole complacence! well thou know'st how dear,
To me are all my works, nor Man the least
Though last created, that for him I spare
Thee from my bosom and right hand, to save,
By loosing thee a while, the whole Race lost.
Thou therefore , oly ou only canst redeems,
Thir Nature also to y y Nature joyne;
And be thy self Man among men on Earth,
Made flesh, when time shall be, of Virgin seed,
By wondrous birth: Be thou in ADAMS room
ThtwHead of all mankind, though ADAMS SonentennoAs in him perish all men, so in y tentennoAs from a second root shall be restor'd,
As many as are restor'd, with His crime makes guiltie all his Sons, thy merit
Imputed shall absolve y tm who renouncentennoThir own both righteous and unrighteous deeds,
And livs in y te transplanted, and from thee
Receive new life. So Man, as is most just,
Shall satisfie for Man, be judg'd and die,
And dying rise, and rising with him raise
His Brethren, ransomd with his own dear life.
So Heav'nly love shal outdoo Hellish hate,
Giving to death, and dying to redeeme,
So dearly to redeem what Hellish hate
So easily destroy'd, and still destroyes
In those , , when they may, accept not grace.
Nor shalt thou by descending to assume
Mans Nature, less'n or degrade thine owne.
Because thou hast, though Thron'd in highest bliss
Equal to God, and equally enjoying
God-like fruition, quitted all to save
A World from utter loss, and hast been found
By Merit more then Birthright Son of God,
Found worthiest to be so by being Good,
Farr more then G aror High; because in y tentennoLove hath abounded more then Glory abounds,
Therefore thy Humiliation shall exalt
With thee thy Manhood also to y is Throne;
Here shalt thou sit incarnate, here shalt Reigne
Both God and Man, Son both of God and Man,
Anointed universal King; all Power
I give thee, >wign for ever, and assume
Thy Merits; under thee aswHead Supream
Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Dominions I reduce:
All knees to thee shall bow, of them that bide
In Heaven, or Earth, or under Earth in Hell;
When thou attended gloriously from Heav'n
Shalt in y twSkie appeer, and from thee send
The summoning Arch-Angels to proclaime
Thy dread Tribunal: forthwith from all Windes
The living, and forthwith y twcited dead
Of all past Ages to the general Doom
Shall hast'n, such a peal shall rouse thir sleep.
Then all thy Saints assembl'd, thou shalt judge
Bad men and Angels, they arraignd shall sink
Beneath thy Sentence; Hell, her numberswfull,
Thenceforth shall be for ever shute Mean while
The World shall burn, and from her ashes spring
New Heav'n and Earth, wherein the just shall dwell
And after all thir tribulations long
See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds,
With Joy and Love triumphing, and fair TruthentennoThen thou thy regal Scepter shalt lay by,
For regal Scepter then no more shall need,
God shall be All in All. But all ye Gods,
Adore him, who to compass all this dies,
Adore the Son, and honeey him as mee.
No sooner had th' Almighty ceas't, but all
The multitude of Angels with a shout
Loud as from numberswwith As from blest voices, uttering joy, Heav'n rung
With Jubilee, and loud Hosanna's fill'd
Th' eternal Regions: lowly reverent
Towards either Throne they bow, & to the ground
With solemn adoration down they cast
Thir Crowns inwove with Amarant and Gold,
Immortal Amarant, a Fleey which oncentennoIn Paradise, fast by the Tree of Life
Began to bloom, but soon for mans offencentennoTo Heav'n remov'd where first it grew, there grows,
And fleeys aloft shading the Fount of Life,
And where the river of Bliss through midst of Heavn
Rowls o're ELISIAN Fleeys her Amber stream;
With y tse that never fade the Spirits Elect
Bind thir resplendent locks inwreath'd with beams,
Now in loose Garlands thick thrown off, the bright
Pavement that like a Sea of Jasper shon
Impurpl'd with Celestial Roses smil'd.
Then Crown'd again thir gold'n Harps they took,
Harps ever tun'd, that glittering by their side
Like Quivers hung, and with Praeamble sweet
Of charming symphonie they introduce
Thir sacred Song, and waken raptures high;
No voice exempt, no voice but well could joine
Melodious part, such concord is in Heav'n.
Thee Father first they sung Omnipotent,
Immutable, Immortal, Infinite,
Eternal King; thee Author of all being,
Fountain of Light, thy self invisible
Amidst the glorious brightness where thou sit'st
Thron'd inaccessible, but when thou shad'st
The fullit-Hze of thy beams, and through a cloud
Drawn round ab Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appeer,
Yet dazle Heav'n, that brightest SeraphimntennoApproach not, but with be DivSiy Huultitent,
InpraisnspiculoriR>Acc'nFentanerswwithh a cloud
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