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Warr terrifie them inexpert, and feare Return them back to Egypt, choosing rather Inglorious life with servitude; for life To noble and ignoble is more sweet 220 Untraind in Armes, where rashness leads not on. This also shall they gain by thir delay In the wide Wilderness, there they shall found Thir government, and thir great Senate choose Through the twelve Tribes, to rule by Laws ordaind: God from the Mount of Sinai, whose gray top Shall tremble, he descending, will himself In Thunder Lightning and loud Trumpets sound Ordaine them Lawes; part such as appertaine To civil Justice, part religious Rites 230 Of sacrifice, informing them, by types And shadowes, of that destind Seed to bruise The Serpent, by what meanes he shall achieve Mankinds deliverance. But the voice of God To mortal eare is dreadful; they beseech That Moses might report to them his will, And terror cease; he grants them thir desire, Instructed that to God is no access Without Mediator, whose high Office now Moses in figure beares, to introduce 240 One greater, of whose day he shall foretell, And all the Prophets in thir Age the times Of great Messiah shall sing. Thus Laws and Rites Establisht, such delight hath God in Men Obedient to his will, that he voutsafes Among them to set up his Tabernacle, The holy One with mortal Men to dwell: By his prescript a Sanctuary is fram'd Of Cedar, overlaid with Gold, therein An Ark, and in the Ark his Testimony, 250 The Records of his Cov'nant, over these A Mercie-seat of Gold between the wings Of two bright Cherubim, before him burn Seaven Lamps as in a Zodiac representing The Heav'nly fires; over the Tent a Cloud Shall rest by Day, a fierie gleame by Night, Save when they journie, and at length they come, Conducted by his Angel to the Land Promisd to Abraham and his Seed: the rest Were long to tell, how many Battels fought, 260 How many Kings destroyd, and Kingdoms won, Or how the Sun shall in mid Heav'n stand still
A day entire, and Nights due course adjourne, Mans voice commanding, Sun in Gibeon stand, And thou Moon in the vale of Aialon, Till Israel overcome; so call the third >From Abraham, Son of Isaac, and from him His whole descent, who thus shall Canaan win. Here Adam interpos'd. O sent from Heav'n, Enlightner of my darkness, gracious things 270 Thou hast reveald, those chiefly which concerne Just Abraham and his Seed: now first I finde Mine eyes true op'ning, and my heart much eas'd, Erwhile perplext with thoughts what would becom Of mee and all Mankind; but now I see His day, in whom all Nations shall be blest, Favour unmerited by me, who sought Forbidd'n knowledge by forbidd'n means. This yet I apprehend not, why to those Among whom God will deigne to dwell on Earth 280 So many and so various Laws are giv'n; So many Laws argue so many sins Among them; how can God with such reside? To whom thus Michael. Doubt not but that sin Will reign among them, as of thee begot; And therefore was Law given them to evince Thir natural pravitie, by stirring up Sin against Law to fight; that when they see Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowie expiations weak, 290 The bloud of Bulls and Goats, they may conclude Some bloud more precious must be paid for Man, Just for unjust, that in such righteousness To them by Faith imputed, they may finde Justification towards God, and peace Of Conscience, which the Law by Ceremonies Cannot appease, nor Man the moral part Perform, and not performing cannot live. So Law appears imperfet, and but giv'n With purpose to resign them in full time 300 Up to a better Cov'nant, disciplin'd >From shadowie Types to Truth, from Flesh to Spirit, >From imposition of strict Laws, to free Acceptance of large Grace, from servil fear To filial, works of Law to works of Faith. And therefore shall not Moses, though of God Highly belov'd, being but the Minister Of Law, his people into Canaan lead;
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A day entire, and Nights due course adjourne,<br />
Mans voice commanding, Sun in Gibeon stand,<br />
And thou Moon in the vale of Aialon,<br />
Till Israel overcome; so call the third<br />
>From Abraham, Son of Isaac, and from him<br />
His whole descent, who thus shall Canaan win.<br />
Here Adam interpos'd. O sent from Heav'n,<br />
Enlightner of my darkness, gracious things 270<br />
Thou hast reveald, those chiefly which concerne<br />
Just Abraham and his Seed: now first I finde<br />
Mine eyes true op'ning, and my heart much eas'd,<br />
Erwhile perplext with thoughts what would becom<br />
Of mee and all Mankind; but now I see<br />
His day, in whom all Nations shall be blest,<br />
Favour unmerited by me, who sought<br />
Forbidd'n knowledge by forbidd'n means.<br />
This yet I apprehend not, why to those<br />
Among whom God will deigne to dwell on Earth 280<br />
So many and so various Laws are giv'n;<br />
So many Laws argue so many sins<br />
Among them; how can God with such reside?<br />
To whom thus Michael. Doubt not but that sin<br />
Will reign among them, as of thee begot;<br />
And therefore was Law given them to evince<br />
Thir natural pravitie, by stirring up<br />
Sin against Law to fight; that when they see<br />
Law can discover sin, but not remove,<br />
Save by those shadowie expiations weak, 290<br />
The bloud of Bulls and Goats, they may conclude<br />
Some bloud more precious must be paid for Man,<br />
Just for unjust, that in such righteousness<br />
To them by Faith imputed, they may finde<br />
Justification towards God, and peace<br />
Of Conscience, which the Law by Ceremonies<br />
Cannot appease, nor Man the moral part<br />
Perform, and not performing cannot live.<br />
So Law appears imperfet, and but giv'n<br />
With purpose to resign them in full time 300<br />
Up to a better Cov'nant, disciplin'd<br />
>From shadowie Types to Truth, from Flesh to Spirit,<br />
>From imposition of strict Laws, to free<br />
Acceptance of large Grace, from servil fear<br />
To filial, works of Law to works of Faith.<br />
And therefore shall not Moses, though of God<br />
Highly belov'd, being but the Minister<br />
Of Law, his people into Canaan lead;