991:00,000@@@@@| 991:06,000[' ]| <*Order and Disorder*, Canto 6, ll. 1-300> 991:06,000[' ]| 991:06,000[' ]| 991:06,001[A ]| When Midnight is the blackest day then breaks 991:06,002[A ]| But then the Infant dawnings pleasant streaks 991:06,003[A ]| Charging through night's Host seemed again put out 991:06,004[A ]| In$4$ the Tumultuous flying shadow's Rout 991:06,005[A ]| Often pierced through with the encroaching Light 991:06,006[A ]| While shades and it maintain a doubtful fight 991:06,007[A ]| Such was Man's fallen state when at the worst 991:06,008[A ]| Like$4$ Day appeared the Blessed promise first 991:06,009[A ]| The Temporary Curse this overlaid 991:06,010[A ]| Comfort again new Cheering sallies made 991:06,011[A ]| When Types The promises did represent 991:06,012[A ]| And Clothes were given for$4$ new Encouragement 991:06,013[A ]| Then their Expulsion and their sad Exile 991:06,014[A ]| Again Contracted the late gracious Smile. 991:06,015[A ]| When God their Woeful State with pity viewed 991:06,016[A ]| Again their Consolation was renewed 991:06,017[A ]| And made the Woman Man's first fruit Conceive 991:06,018[A ]| In$4$ hope of which$6#1$ her Husband called her Eve 991:06,019[A ]| And by$4$ this name not only did Imply 991:06,020[A ]| Her Curse in$4$ his superiority 991:06,021[A ]| But the sweet mitigation of that$6#2$ doom 991:06,022[A ]| promising Life to$9$ enter through her womb 991:06,023[A ]| Faith in$4$ which$6#1$ promise the glad Father thus 991:06,024[A ]| professed and made Exemplary to$4$ us. 991:06,025[A ]| Then brought she forth; And Caine she called his Son 991:06,026[A ]| For$3$ God, said She, gives us possession. 991:06,027[A ]| Her Teeming womb with new fruit swelled again 991:06,028[A ]| And finding now his forward first hopes vain 991:06,029[A ]| Abell she called the next whose riper age 991:06,030[A ]| Accomplished, what his sad name did presage 991:06,031[A ]| And by$4$ Converting their delights to$4$ woe 991:06,032[A ]| Did the vain Joy of Earthly Comforts show 991:06,033[A ]| When Caine was borne, Exultingly she thought 991:06,034[A ]| She had into the World her Champion brought 991:06,035[A ]| But from the Error of that$6#2$ fond Conceit 991:06,036[A ]| She learnt that$3$ such as live on$4$ faith must wait 991:06,037[A ]| To$9$ have the promises whereon they stay 991:06,038[A ]| performed alone in$4$ God's own time and way 991:06,039[A ]| The Entail of Life and victory was not 991:06,040[A ]| To$4$ Earthly Man, of Earthly Man begot 991:06,041[A ]| And such alone could Eve to$4$ Adam breed 991:06,042[A ]| Whose Sin And Curse was fixed in$4$ all his seed 991:06,043[A ]| And to$9$ recover its Corrupted fruit 991:06,044[A ]| It must be set into A nobler Root 991:06,045[A ]| Its Ignominious parentage disclaim 991:06,046[A ]| And be adopted into A new name 991:06,047[A ]| Which$6#1$ then obscured in$4$ the oracle did Lie 991:06,048[A ]| Till the full Time revealed the Mystery 991:06,049[A ]| When God did into Human nature Come 991:06,050[A ]| Vesting himselfe in$4$ A pure Virgin's Womb 991:06,051[A ]| Whence he A second stock of Mankind grew 991:06,052[A ]| That$3$ dead Grafts set in$4$ him might Life renew 991:06,053[A ]| But Death was first to$9$ Exercise its reign 991:06,054[A ]| Long before new Life to$4$ Light came forth again 991:06,055[A ]| Adam in$4$ his own Likeness got A Son 991:06,056[A ]| Infected with his own pollution 991:06,057[A ]| Which$6#1$ wholly spread itself through all his Race 991:06,058[A ]| Conceived in$4$ Sin and born in$4$ sad disgrace 991:06,059[A ]| For$3$ that$6#2$ black Crime which$6#1$ did his Honour stain 991:06,060[A ]| Doth yet A Taint on$4$ all his blood remain 991:06,061[A ]| Acknowledging this Truth, alas from whence 991:06,062[A ]| Doth vain Nobility raise Its pretence 991:06,063[A ]| When the first Monarch's sons in$4$ slavery born 991:06,064[A ]| Were taught those Trades which$6#1$ upstart Nobles scorn 991:06,065[A ]| The Eldest prince to$4$ Agriculture bred 991:06,066[A ]| The next his flocks in$4$ the Cool shadow fed 991:06,067[A ]| Nor were they only taught to$9$ Exercise 991:06,068[A ]| Honest Employments; but with sacrifice 991:06,069[A ]| To$9$ worship God in$4$ his appointed Day 991:06,070[A ]| And seek his favour and their due thanks pay 991:06,071[A ]| The Ceremony with a diverse Mind 991:06,072[A ]| They both performed, And such success did find. 991:06,073[A ]| Cain some of his new Corn and fruits did bring 991:06,074[A ]| But God accepted not his offering 991:06,075[A ]| For$3$ it is the Heart more than the Sacrifice 991:06,076[A ]| That$6#1$ must find Grace in$4$ the Almighty's Eyes 991:06,077[A ]| He that$6#1$ with Meal And pure devotion Comes 991:06,078[A ]| Shall better please than pompous Hecatombs 991:06,079[A ]| Which$6#1$ unbelievers in$4$ a formal way 991:06,080[A ]| With ostentation on$4$ his Altars slay 991:06,081[A ]| Smothering their Faith with overgrowing pride 991:06,082[A ]| While they in$4$ their Performances Confide 991:06,083[A ]| Abell the fattest of his whole flock sought 991:06,084[A ]| And humbly to$4$ the Lord his offering brought 991:06,085[A ]| Whose steadfast faith and self denying mind 991:06,086[A ]| Gracious acceptance with his God did find 991:06,087[A ]| This made Cain's wicked Heart with Rancour swell 991:06,088[A ]| At which$6#1$ his late erected Countenance fell 991:06,089[A ]| While wrath like$4$ fire beneath the Cauldron Lies 991:06,090[A ]| And made his Thoughts like$4$ filthy Scum arise 991:06,091[A ]| Till they Confusedly run over and drowned 991:06,092[A ]| Every faint spark in$4$ his dark bosome found 991:06,093[A ]| Envy that$6#2$ most pernicious Hag of Hell 991:06,094[A ]| Observing this starts from the gloomy Cell 991:06,095[A ]| Where she Maligning all things good and great 991:06,096[A ]| With pining Rage doth her own Carcase eat 991:06,097[A ]| And secretly into his sad breast Creeps 991:06,098[A ]| There all his thoughts in$4$ her black poison Steeps 991:06,099[A ]| The Infection first his sick Heart ulcerates 991:06,100[A ]| And thence itself to$4$ every part dilates 991:06,101[A ]| No$2$ more Could his dim Eyes Heaven's splendour brook 991:06,102[A ]| But on$4$ the Earth fixed their dejected Look 991:06,103[A ]| Where while he walkd with slow and sullen pace 991:06,104[A ]| A Thousand fancies heightened his disgrace 991:06,105[A ]| Envy and spite thus reigning nourished state 991:06,106[A ]| And all together vengeance Meditate 991:06,107[A ]| His ill surmisings with his guilt Increase 991:06,108[A ]| Destroying the last remnant of his peace 991:06,109[A ]| When God from Heaven Graciously did Call 991:06,110[A ]| To$4$ the griefed wretch; 991:06,110@a | Why doth thy Countenance fall? 991:06,111@a | Why doth thy Anger burn? Why art thou sad? 991:06,112@a | If thou dost well, shall not Regard be had 991:06,113@a | To$4$ thy good deeds? To$9$ give them recompense? 991:06,114@a | If thou dost ill; the guilt of thy offence 991:06,115@a | As A Tormentor at thy door shall wait 991:06,116@a | And ever shall perplex thy future state 991:06,117@a | What hath thy Brother done to$9$ Cause thy Ire 991:06,118@a | To$4$ thee he bends to$4$ thee is his desire 991:06,119@a | The favor he hath found doth not Elate 991:06,120@a | His thoughts against thee to$4$ an Insolent height 991:06,121@a | Thee as his Elder he doth Reverence 991:06,122@a | And bears thy wrath with humble Innocence. 991:06,123[A ]| These reasons could not Caine's dire wrath appease 991:06,124[A ]| For$3$ such Contagion had his wild disease 991:06,125[A ]| That$6#1$ as a forge more violently burns 991:06,126[A ]| By$4$ Casting water on$5$; his sick mind turns 991:06,127[A ]| All Cures to$4$ poison And what should abate 991:06,128[A ]| Rather gives growth unto his Cruel hate 991:06,129[A ]| He with his Brother talks whose answers mild 991:06,130[A ]| Inflame his passion more and make him wild 991:06,131[A ]| To$9$ see those virtues he can never Reach. 991:06,132[A ]| furious despair then entering at the breach 991:06,133[A ]| Did all the obstacles of sin remove 991:06,134[A ]| Trod down his piety and fraternal Love 991:06,135[A ]| Advancing only his Triumphant pride 991:06,136[A ]| Which$6#1$ had no$2$ rest till guiltless Abell died 991:06,137[A ]| Whom whilst his Innocence no$2$ fear Instilled 991:06,138[A ]| His Cruel Brother on$4$ the sudden killed 991:06,139[A ]| And better to$9$ Conceal his wicked deed 991:06,140[A ]| The lifeless Carcase in$4$ a Covert hid 991:06,141[A ]| This vengeance pleased his impious mind a while 991:06,142[A ]| But Ah! How wicked men themselves beguile 991:06,143[A ]| They think God sees not Mischief he permits 991:06,144[A ]| And long unexecuted Threats forgets 991:06,145[A ]| And that$3$ because he is not in$4$ their view 991:06,146[A ]| He sees and marks as little what they do 991:06,147[A ]| When no$2$ dark shroud, nor the thick veil of night 991:06,148[A ]| Can hide the Sin of Sinners from his sight 991:06,149[A ]| Which$6#1$ penetrates into all shades all deeps 991:06,150[A ]| All that$6#1$ the Heart in$4$ its dark Corners keeps 991:06,151[A ]| The Secretest Sins Contrived there, are known 991:06,152[A ]| To$4$ him even in$4$ their first Conception 991:06,153[A ]| He sees their growth, is present at their birth 991:06,154[A ]| Though in$4$ the darkest Entrails of the Earth. 991:06,155[A ]| Remote from him, nor Caves nor Rocks, nor far 991:06,156[A ]| Extended Shores, nor distant Islands are 991:06,157[A ]| His view that$6#1$ stretches to$4$ the Largest space 991:06,158[A ]| Is not Extended in$4$ the narrowest place 991:06,159[A ]| Can anything from him obscured be 991:06,160[A ]| Who$6#1$ made all that$6#1$ is seen, and all that$6#1$ see 991:06,161[A ]| He who$6#1$ by$4$ winking would put out the Sun 991:06,162[A ]| Is not so$5#1$ worthy of Derision ~~ 991:06,163[A ]| As he who$6#1$ while God is not in$4$ his Eyes 991:06,164[A ]| Believes himself unseen, by$4$ him he flies 991:06,165[A ]| This foolish unbelief is the Chief sin 991:06,166[A ]| That$6#1$ shuts out awe and lets all villainy in$5$ 991:06,167[A ]| Why else doth Lust and Treason seek A shade 991:06,168[A ]| Except men hoped they thereby Could Evade 991:06,169[A ]| As well as man's, God's eyes, which$6#1$ are too pure 991:06,170[A ]| Foul deeds without abhorrence to$9$ endure 991:06,171[A ]| Would not the Adulterer start from lewd Embrace 991:06,172[A ]| Dreading to$9$ abuse God's house before his face 991:06,173[A ]| Would not the swinish drunkard be afraid 991:06,174[A ]| To$9$ Come before the Judge in$4$ Masquerade 991:06,175[A ]| Reason his sovereign's livery to$9$ divest 991:06,176[A ]| Wearing the Badge of Devil and of Beast 991:06,177[A ]| Would not the stoutest Murderer shrink with fear 991:06,178[A ]| God's sacred Image in$4$ his sight to$9$ Tear 991:06,179[A ]| Were not Hell's mists so$5#1$ in$4$ their senses rolled 991:06,180[A ]| They think him far whom they can not behold 991:06,181[A ]| While the old Enchanter with his Sorceries 991:06,182[A ]| Seals up$5$ their understanding's blinded Eyes 991:06,183[A ]| Till the fact is done then doth his Charms unbind 991:06,184[A ]| And they God's presence to$4$ their Terror find 991:06,185[A ]| So$3$ the first Murderer was a little Time 991:06,186[A ]| Falsely secure in$4$ his Close acted Crime 991:06,187[A ]| Till God himself did then appear in$4$ view 991:06,188[A ]| When Sathan all his Treacherous blinds withdrew 991:06,189[A ]| And naked left the wretch without defence 991:06,190[A ]| But what he sought in$4$ Lies and Impudence 991:06,191[A ]| Though he A witness in$4$ his own breast bore 991:06,192[A ]| As much convincing as a Thousand more 991:06,193[A ]| And in$4$ his blushes, guilt itself betrayed 991:06,194[A ]| When Inquisition of the fact was made 991:06,195[A ]| For$3$ God who$6#1$ suffers many sins to$9$ lie 991:06,196[A ]| Buried in$4$ Darkness or Hypocrisy 991:06,197[A ]| Till that$6#2$ day which$6#1$ all secrets shall reveal 991:06,198[A ]| Seldom permits foul Murderers to$9$ Conceal 991:06,199[A ]| Their Guilt till death but makes them oftentimes 991:06,200[A ]| In$4$ Dreams and Ravings to$9$ disclose their Crimes 991:06,201[A ]| Oft to$9$ betray themselves by$4$ their own dread 991:06,202[A ]| Oft times by$4$ the fresh bleedings of the dead 991:06,203[A ]| By$4$ Complices, by$4$ Ghosts wandering in$4$ night 991:06,204[A ]| And various other ways to$9$ Come to$4$ Light 991:06,205[A ]| Oft have the Murderers themselves been slain 991:06,206[A ]| And at their Deaths Confessed their bloody stain 991:06,207[A ]| Finding themselves by$4$ their own Crimes pursued 991:06,208[A ]| And Crying out, that$3$ Blood must expiate blood 991:06,209[A ]| Caine's vengeance to$4$ its utmost stretch had run 991:06,210[A ]| And where that$6#2$ ended, God's revenge begun 991:06,211[A ]| Which$6#1$ unexpected did the wretch surprise 991:06,212[A ]| Asking where Abell was; In$4$ Surly wise 991:06,213@b | Am I his keeper, 991:06,213[A ]| said the parricide 991:06,214@b | I know not where he is. 991:06,214[A ]| The Lord replied 991:06,215@a | What hast thou done? His blood spilt on$4$ the Ground 991:06,216@a | To$4$ Heaven Cries, and there hath audience found 991:06,217@a | The Earth your Common parent shall no$2$ more 991:06,218@a | Indulge thee nor her Rich blessings as before 991:06,219@a | No$2$ more her fertile strength impart; when thou 991:06,220@a | Openest her rich womb by$4$ thy labouring plough 991:06,221@a | Thou with thy Brother's blood, her mouth hath filled 991:06,222@a | And that$6#2$ food shall no$2$ Crop but Curses yield 991:06,223@a | No$2$ portion shalt thou henceforth have in$4$ her 991:06,224@a | But be a fugitive and Wanderer 991:06,225[A ]| Sad Cain thus sentenced for$4$ his Cruel fact 991:06,226[A ]| Cried out to$4$ God: 991:06,226@b | O Lord thou dost Exact 991:06,227@b | My punishment greater than I can bear 991:06,228@b | Behold I am an Exile everywhere 991:06,229@b | This day I have in$4$ all the Earth no$2$ place 991:06,230@b | And am forever Banished from thy face 991:06,231@b | Thou dost me from all habitation drive 991:06,232@b | And whosoever shall meet this Fugitive 991:06,233@b | This bloody vagabond with Justice will$1$ 991:06,234@b | So$5#1$ vile A wretch as the first Murderer kill 991:06,235[A ]| Thus was vile Caine Convicted with deepe sense 991:06,236[A ]| Not of Its Sin but of Its Consequence 991:06,237[A ]| When God assured him, sevenfold vengance should 991:06,238[A ]| Seize on$5$ whatever man should shed his blood 991:06,239[A ]| And to$9$ Confirm it set a Mark on$4$ Cain 991:06,240[A ]| To$9$ show it was not God's will$0$ he should be slain, 991:06,241[A ]| Was it God's will$0$ then that$3$ parricide should be 991:06,242[A ]| At first Encouraged by$4$ Impunity 991:06,243[A ]| Not so$5#2$ but the first Execution 991:06,244[A ]| Was more severely by$4$ the Lord's hand done 991:06,245[A ]| Than Could by$4$ any Minister have been 991:06,246[A ]| And Magistrates did not their power begin 991:06,247[A ]| Till Mankind grew into Societies 991:06,248[A ]| On$4$ whom that$6#2$ power hath its Exercise 991:06,249[A ]| Before the Lord his substitutes ordained 991:06,250[A ]| Himself Immediately In$4$ Judgment reigned 991:06,251[A ]| His Rebels by$4$ his own mouth did Condemn 991:06,252[A ]| And by$4$ his own hand Executed them 991:06,253[A ]| The Sword is God's and who$6#1$ without his Leave 991:06,254[A ]| Usurps it, shall a double Stroke receive 991:06,255[A ]| Yet did not this first Impious Criminal 991:06,256[A ]| Scape punishment, nor was it light and small 991:06,257[A ]| No$2$ more allowed unto the Lord to$9$ bring 991:06,258[A ]| With bloody hands, his Loathed offering 991:06,259[A ]| No$2$ more with pure Saints to$9$ associate 991:06,260[A ]| Their sacred Mysteries to$9$ Communicate 991:06,261[A ]| No$2$ more to$9$ Come before the Almighty's face 991:06,262[A ]| (That$6#1$ is) into his favour and his Grace 991:06,263[A ]| Though he can nowhere from his Justice Run 991:06,264[A ]| Nor nowhere can his dreadful Terror shun 991:06,265[A ]| By$4$ which$6#1$ he up$4$ and down the world was thrown 991:06,266[A ]| As a Light Bark by$4$ Raging Tempest blown 991:06,267[A ]| Horror like$4$ Thunder on$4$ his bare sides knocks 991:06,268[A ]| Remorse, Rage, Spite, split him like$4$ pointed Rocks 991:06,269[A ]| Affrights like$4$ whirlwinds heave him in$4$ the Air 991:06,270[A ]| Swallowed at Last in$4$ Quicksands of despair 991:06,271[A ]| When he Looked down upon$4$ the blood stained ground 991:06,272[A ]| His Trembling Legs, unfirm their station found 991:06,273[A ]| Dreading that$3$ under him the Earth should Rive 991:06,274[A ]| And in$4$ their dire Jaws swallow him alive 991:06,275[A ]| He shivered when he felt the sportful Air 991:06,276[A ]| Fancying his Brother's pale Ghost hovered there 991:06,277[A ]| And while he drunk the Cool refreshing flood 991:06,278[A ]| Thinking it poisoned with his Brother's blood 991:06,279[A ]| He starts and flies from the scarce tasted Streams 991:06,280[A ]| Nor is less persecuted in$4$ his Dreams 991:06,281[A ]| When Grief Conducts him to$4$ the house of sleep 991:06,282[A ]| Where dullness doth on$4$ the tired members Creep 991:06,283[A ]| Then they a Thousand Terrors Represent 991:06,284[A ]| And Torture him in$4$ Every Element 991:06,285[A ]| Lightning from Heaven round about him flies 991:06,286[A ]| And sulphurous flames from the Cleft Mountains rise 991:06,287[A ]| About his Ears The furious Tempest Raves 991:06,288[A ]| The sea devours him in$4$ its Angry waves 991:06,289[A ]| Earth's savage brood tear him with Torturing smart 991:06,290[A ]| Which$6#1$ makes him from his frightful slumber start 991:06,291[A ]| Whose Fears being in$4$ the wakeing sense renewed 991:06,292[A ]| He flies; but each where by$4$ himself pursued 991:06,293[A ]| In$4$ vain he Reaves about the world for$4$ Rest 991:06,294[A ]| Carrying his Torturer in$4$ his guilty Crest. 991:06,295[A ]| Thus from God's presence driven all that$6#1$ do so$5#2$ 991:06,296[A ]| From Light, from Life, from Rest and pleasure, go 991:06,297[A ]| And all the space they afterward survive 991:06,298[A ]| Keeps but their woe and Misery alive 991:06,299[A ]| While they are dead, from God cast off; and this 991:06,300[A ]| Sad separation only true Death is 991:07,000@@@@@| 991:07,001[A ]| Although Seth's offspring did God's ways decline 991:07,002[A ]| Mixed with Caine's Impious brood, yet of that$6#2$ Line 991:07,003[A ]| In$4$ Every Age, some few with pure hearts sought 991:07,004[A ]| The Lord of Life and to$4$ their Children taught. 991:07,005[A ]| Seth was the founder of the holy State 991:07,006[A ]| Enos his Son And Kinam he begat 991:07,007[A ]| Whose True, but Melancholy names Imply 991:07,008[A ]| Frail Man's Lamenting Imbecility 991:07,009[A ]| The Sense of Which$6#1$ produceth God's just praise 991:07,010[A ]| Who$6#1$ by$4$ the Infirm can his firm structure raise 991:07,011[A ]| This Intimated in$4$ Mahaleells name 991:07,012[A ]| The Monument of Kenam's faith became 991:07,013[A ]| Mahaleel Jared got; He Henochs Sire 991:07,014[A ]| Whose holy Life not suffered to$9$ Expire 991:07,015[A ]| Is yet Continued in$4$ High Heaven above 991:07,016[A ]| He left Methuselah at his remove 991:07,017[A ]| Whose stay was longer than all others here 991:07,018[A ]| Stretched to$4$ his six hundredth, ninety and ninth year 991:07,019[A ]| From his son Lamech pious Noah came 991:07,020[A ]| Carrying his Father's glad hope in$4$ his name 991:07,021[A ]| In$4$ ten successions thus the first world passed 991:07,022[A ]| But all we know is that$3$ their Lives did Last 991:07,023[A ]| Longer than ours; no$2$ memory remained 991:07,024[A ]| By$4$ what such great experience they had gained 991:07,025[A ]| Their deaths, their wars and all the Arts they found 991:07,026[A ]| Were in$4$ the deluge and oblivion drowned 991:07,027[A ]| We think the World's young vigour made them strong 991:07,028[A ]| And that$3$ plain food preserved their Lives so$5#1$ Long 991:07,029[A ]| For$3$ they on$4$ fruits, Herbs, milk and honey fed 991:07,030[A ]| No$2$ Beasts to$9$ satiate their Hunger bled 991:07,031[A ]| No$2$ fowl were into hidden nets betrayed 991:07,032[A ]| No$2$ snares for$4$ the unwary Creatures laid 991:07,033[A ]| No$2$ fishes Caught in$4$ Rivers or in$4$ Brooks 991:07,034[A ]| With Treacherous baits upon$4$ their unseen hooks 991:07,035[A ]| No$2$ seas, no$2$ shores were searched for$4$ new delights 991:07,036[A ]| To$9$ Recreate their wanton appetites 991:07,037[A ]| Yet Though Luxurious Sins were then unknown 991:07,038[A ]| That$6#2$ World did under other vices groan 991:07,039[A ]| Rapine, Lust, Murder Cruelty and Rage 991:07,040[A ]| With Impious Blasphemies defiled that$6#2$ Age 991:07,041[A ]| For$3$ when the sons of God his sweet Curb broke 991:07,042[A ]| Polluted by$4$ the World's unequal yoke 991:07,043[A ]| They Cast off all pure Reverential Awe 991:07,044[A ]| And broke the fence of Matrimonial Law 991:07,045[A ]| His neighbour's Wife Each potent Lecher took 991:07,046[A ]| Each wild Adulterer his own forsook 991:07,047[A ]| No$2$ more Could modest flight secure from Rape 991:07,048[A ]| Chaste virgins could not Ravishers Escape 991:07,049[A ]| Promiscuous Lust polluted Every Bed 991:07,050[A ]| Children were to$4$ uncertain fathers bred 991:07,051[A ]| whose vices as their Bodies vastly grew 991:07,052[A ]| Each Giant's strength the only bound he knew 991:07,053[A ]| Whereby he kept the Weaker vulgar down 991:07,054[A ]| And got his wicked greatness a Renown 991:07,055[A ]| As by$4$ Impunity these hardened were 991:07,056[A ]| At last they God no$2$ more than Man did fear 991:07,057[A ]| Scoff at his Worshippers, his Threats disdained 991:07,058[A ]| And in$4$ Contempt of him their Crimes maintained 991:07,059[A ]| Who$6#1$ yet his prophets to$4$ those lewd men sent 991:07,060[A ]| And gave them Gracious Warnings to$9$ repent 991:07,061@a | By$4$ me 991:07,061[A ]| said He 991:07,061@a | men live and move; When I 991:07,062@a | Call back the Inspired souls the Bodies Die 991:07,063@a | Their sins are grown up$5$ to$4$ that$6#2$ full height now 991:07,064@a | That$3$ I no$2$ longer will$1$ their Lives allow 991:07,065@a | But will$1$ Command away their quickening breath 991:07,066@a | Leave them like$4$ Empty scabbards at their Death 991:07,067@a | They shall not evermore stand in$4$ my sight 991:07,068@a | Which$6#1$ can not in$4$ their Impure flesh delight 991:07,069@a | <2>No$2$ longer shall my waking providence 991:07,070@a | Act for$4$ their sustenance or their defence 991:07,071@a | Whose mighty operation Ceasing All 991:07,072@a | Confounded natures will$1$ to$4$ Ruin fall 991:07,073@a | <3>My spirit sent to$9$ inhabit Human kind 991:07,074@a | Whom for$4$ Myself a Temple designed 991:07,075@a | I will$1$ retract, nor shall it still remain 991:07,076@a | With Those who$6#1$ do my holy seat profane 991:07,077@a | I will$1$ desert their vile polluted Race 991:07,078@a | No$2$ longer will$1$ I offer them my Grace 991:07,079@a | <4>I will$1$ at last draw forth my glittering sword 991:07,080@a | My strokes shall follow my despised word 991:07,081@a | Nor shall the quiver still my arrows keep 991:07,082@a | My sure Revenge shall not forever sleep 991:07,083@a | <5>No$2$ longer shall my Injured spirit plead 991:07,084@a | No$2$ more shall it this stubborn Race persuade 991:07,085@a | <1>For$3$ they are flesh exalting fleshly will$0$ 991:07,086@a | Which$6#1$ sets itself against my spirit still 991:07,087@a | <2>For$3$ they are flesh not Cain's lewd sons alone 991:07,088@a | But My sons too; They all are fleshly grown 991:07,089@a | And all flesh now shall in$4$ destruction End 991:07,090@a | My spirit shall now more with flesh Contend 991:07,091@a | Yet the Condemned have six score years reprieve 991:07,092@a | So$5#1$ long will$1$ I permit them yet to$9$ Live 991:07,093[A ]| No$2$ sadder worse presaging Judgment Can 991:07,094[A ]| Fall on$4$ the unhappy Race of sinful Man 991:07,095[A ]| Than when God's holy spirit in$4$ Just Ire 991:07,096[A ]| From the polluted Temple doth retire 991:07,097[A ]| When God forsakes the House defiled by$4$ sin 991:07,098[A ]| All the whole Crew of ugly fiends throng in$5$ 991:07,099[A ]| Rendering that$6#2$ soul which$6#1$ drunk in$4$ sin's first stain 991:07,100[A ]| Incapable of being Cleansed again 991:07,101[A ]| As when the spirit Heaven did Inspire 991:07,102[A ]| Retracts from the Cold members quickening fire 991:07,103[A ]| Corruption soon dissolves the rotten frame 991:07,104[A ]| Which$6#1$ at the first out of Corruption came 991:07,105[A ]| As when the sun is set, night Creeps on$5$ fast 991:07,106[A ]| Till blackness have Involved all at Last 991:07,107[A ]| Such dark quick dissolution follows when 991:07,108[A ]| The long grieved spirit leaves rebellious Men 991:07,109[A ]| Who$6#1$ in$4$ that$6#2$ dead state lose all sight and sense 991:07,110[A ]| And motion stiffened by$4$ Impenitence 991:07,111[A ]| Their pureness Changed into an ugly hue 991:07,112[A ]| And Carrion stinking where sweet Roses grew 991:07,113[A ]| Such were the old World when God would strive no$2$ more 991:07,114[A ]| By$4$ those kind Checks he Exercised before 991:07,115[A ]| Angry Indulgence rendered them secure 991:07,116[A ]| The seared Conscience Could all threats Endure 991:07,117[A ]| They thought themselves from pupilage now free 991:07,118[A ]| Their Guardian gone Joyed in$4$ their Liberty 991:07,119[A ]| Through which$6#1$ their sure and swift destruction Came 991:07,120[A ]| Yet Triumph they in$4$ their obdurate frame 991:07,121[A ]| As if their stout sins had Caused God to$9$ yield 991:07,122[A ]| And leave them Masters of the quitted field 991:07,123[A ]| As Mad men, who$6#1$ their friendly Chains had broke 991:07,124[A ]| So$5#1$ Raged they, gotten out of that$6#2$ safe yoke 991:07,125[A ]| Which$6#1$ was A Curb to$4$ their Licentious Will$0$ 991:07,126[A ]| While waking Conscience checked them in$4$ their Ill 991:07,127[A ]| While Heaven shined and Rich fruits Crownd the Earth 991:07,128[A ]| They wholly gave themselves to$4$ feasts and mirth 991:07,129[A ]| Eat, drunk, built piles, got Children and new wives 991:07,130[A ]| As if not danger threatened their Lewd Lives 991:07,131[A ]| And their first natural Impressions were 991:07,132[A ]| Vain Superstitions and a childish fear 991:07,133[A ]| Boasting they had attained to$9$ be Wise 991:07,134[A ]| When they with Manly Courage could despise 991:07,135[A ]| Fictions of God and Hell that$6#1$ did Control 991:07,136[A ]| A vulgar, weak, deluded pious Soul 991:07,137[A ]| So$3$ Run the old world then, so$3$ do they now 991:07,138[A ]| Who$6#1$ none but Atheists for$4$ wise men allow 991:07,139[A ]| Such as no$2$ Awe of the unseen God doth Curb 991:07,140[A ]| No$2$ thoughts of any future state disturb 991:07,141[A ]| Who$6#1$ valiantly have Conscience overcome 991:07,142[A ]| And feel no$2$ pain when that$6#2$ is once made numb 991:07,143[A ]| Meanwhile the Lord his goodness did pursue 991:07,144[A ]| To$4$ These Ill men their Seasons did renew 991:07,145[A ]| Allowed them common Blessings Air and Light 991:07,146[A ]| Restored Calm days, Expelled the stormy night 991:07,147[A ]| A Table for$4$ his Rebels daily spread 991:07,148[A ]| Whereat themselves they fat for$4$ slaughter fed 991:07,149[A ]| His watchful providence for$4$ them employed 991:07,150[A ]| Nor left the wretched world without a Guide 991:07,151[A ]| But Wisely led and turned their violent streams 991:07,152[A ]| To$4$ Ends that$6#1$ were not in$4$ their Thoughts nor Aims 991:07,153[A ]| Wrought their deliverance, danger did prevent 991:07,154[A ]| When they miscalled his high help accident 991:07,155[A ]| Nor owned nor blessed that$6#2$ unseen powerful hand 991:07,156[A ]| By$4$ whose support nature's loose frame did stand, 991:07,157[A ]| <"> Happy when Mercies Lie in$4$ Judgments Womb 991:07,158[A ]| <"> But sad when all Mercies in$4$ a Judgment Come 991:07,159[A ]| For$3$ by$4$ Indulgences that$6#2$ store grows vast 991:07,160[A ]| Which$6#1$ will$1$ be all Exacted at the Last ~~ 991:07,161[A ]| Though God had long foreseen the Cursed abuse 991:07,162[A ]| Of his abounding Grace, that$3$ no$2$ Excuse 991:07,163[A ]| To$4$ the Impenitent Sinners might remain 991:07,164[A ]| Before he struck he searched the World again 991:07,165[A ]| And did a Total depravation find 991:07,166[A ]| In$4$ all the Thoughts and Actions of Mankind 991:07,167[A ]| Corrupted in$4$ the Whole and every part 991:07,168[A ]| All the Imaginations of the Heart 991:07,169[A ]| Not only Evil were but only Ill 991:07,170[A ]| Not mixed nor Intermitted Evil still 991:07,171[A ]| No$2$ signs, no$2$ admonitions, no$2$ wise fear 991:07,172[A ]| Had stopped the violence of their Career 991:07,173[A ]| Nor God's approach: Before his face they yet 991:07,174[A ]| Held on$5$, And him in$4$ high Rebellion met 991:07,175[A ]| Thus Sin not only sinful seems, but mad 991:07,176[A ]| No$2$ other power deserted nature had 991:07,177[A ]| Mans universal fall left nothing good 991:07,178[A ]| Nothing is pure that$6#1$ Springs from flesh and blood 991:07,179[A ]| In$4$ natural and Morral Actions then 991:07,180[A ]| Is there no$2$ goodness left to$4$ fallen Men? 991:07,181[A ]| Nor nothing is good, all Ill by$4$ Ill men done 991:07,182[A ]| Pure Water which$6#1$ Through stinking Channels Run 991:07,183[A ]| Become Corrupt in$4$ their declining stream 991:07,184[A ]| Such all good Actions are, performed by$4$ them 991:07,185[A ]| If Acts derive their goodness from their End 991:07,186[A ]| Whatever they do they sinfully Intend 991:07,187[A ]| If we would seek their goodness in$4$ the Spring 991:07,188[A ]| Who$6#1$ from Impurity can pureness bring 991:07,189[A ]| Though we are Cheated with fair looking fruit 991:07,190[A ]| All baneful are upon$4$ a poisoned Root 991:07,191[A ]| Such are the virtues of all Human Race 991:07,192[A ]| Till fallen nature be renewed by$4$ Grace 991:07,193[A ]| The holy Spirit drew the old World thus 991:07,194[A ]| To$9$ be our Emblem that$3$ ourselves to$4$ us 991:07,195[A ]| In$4$ our polluted Births most truly shown 991:07,196[A ]| Might in$4$ ourselves no$2$ goodness seek nor own 991:07,197[A ]| But to$4$ the first eternal Spring repair 991:07,198[A ]| Carrying and seeking all our goodness there 991:07,199[A ]| Dreading to$9$ drive away that$6#2$ Spirit whence 991:07,200[A ]| All that$6#1$ is virtuous hath its Influence 991:07,201[A ]| But if that$6#2$ too unhappily retire 991:07,202[A ]| As when the salt floods quench day's radiant fire 991:07,203[A ]| Wild Beasts break from their dens and Range about 991:07,204[A ]| So$3$ Savage Crimes comes in$4$ where God goes out 991:07,205[A ]| The long space given the old World to$9$ repent 991:07,206[A ]| Did but their provocations more augment 991:07,207[A ]| Impiety at Monstrous height was found 991:07,208[A ]| And violence did throughout the Earth abound 991:07,209[A ]| No$2$ dread no$2$ soft remorse did Sin abate 991:07,210[A ]| Even when vengance knocked at every gate 991:07,211[A ]| Love seeing this did into pity melt 991:07,212[A ]| And deeply grieved for$4$ those who$6#1$ no$2$ grief felt 991:07,213[A ]| Repenting It had mankind made to$9$ be 991:07,214[A ]| Subjects of such Eternal Misery 991:07,215[A ]| Yet did not Mercy all to$4$ Judgement yield 991:07,216[A ]| But kept one quarter of the bloody field 991:07,217[A ]| Sweetly itself with severe Justice Mixed 991:07,218[A ]| Its Gracious view on$4$ pious Noah fixed 991:07,219[A ]| Whom when All others did degenerate 991:07,220[A ]| Is yet preserved in$4$ an unblemished State 991:07,221[A ]| And in$4$ his upright soul its own work Crowned 991:07,222[A ]| For$4$ which$6#1$ he Grace before the Almighty found 991:07,223@a | Then 991:07,223[A ]| said the Lord 991:07,223@a | I will$1$ all Men destroy 991:07,224@a | With All the abused Creatures they enjoy 991:07,225@a | Whatever walks on$4$ Earth, all Creeping things 991:07,226@a | All that$6#1$ divide the Air with outstretched Wings 991:07,227@a | Shall in$4$ that$6#2$ general deluge be Involved 991:07,228@a | Which$6#1$ I to$9$ punish Sinners have resolved 991:07,229@a | For$3$ I Repent that$3$ I for$4$ Mankind's sake 991:07,230@a | Did the fair World and all its Dwellers make 991:07,231@a | To$9$ be by$4$ Man's polluting use defiled 991:07,232@a | And by$4$ myself destroyed when by$4$ them spoiled 991:07,233[A ]| After those Threats looking again the Lord 991:07,234[A ]| Saw the Earth still foul And more to$9$ be abhorred 991:07,235[A ]| No$2$ longer now to$4$ them his summons sends 991:07,236[A ]| Sad sign that$3$ he no$2$ more his Care Intends 991:07,237[A ]| His holy prophets who$6#1$ the warnings gave 991:07,238[A ]| Calls home into the quiet of the Grave 991:07,239[A ]| That$3$ Death's Insensible and misty night 991:07,240[A ]| Might hide the Approaching horrors from their sight 991:07,241[A ]| The Church alone in$4$ Noah's house remained 991:07,242[A ]| Who$6#1$ to$4$ the last his uprightness retained 991:07,243[A ]| To$4$ him the Lord his latest speech addressed 991:07,244[A ]| Disdaining to$9$ take notice of the rest 991:07,245@a | The fatal period of all Human seed 991:07,246[A ]| Said God 991:07,246@a | Approaches now; It is decreed 991:07,247@a | Never to$9$ be recalled since all my Grace 991:07,248@a | Is but Contemned even before my face 991:07,249@a | And violence doth in$4$ the Earth abound 991:07,250@a | Which$6#1$ I will$1$ with Its wicked dwellers drowned 991:07,251@a | But thou shalt for$4$ thyself an Ark provide 991:07,252@a | Of Gopher wood and pitch it on$4$ each Side 991:07,253@a | The Length shall to$4$ three hundred Cubits stretch; 991:07,254@a | Fifty the Height; thirty the breadth shall reach 991:07,255@a | Above, A Window of A Cubit Square 991:07,256@a | And in$4$ the side thou shalt A door prepare 991:07,257@a | Into three storeys shalt the room divide 991:07,258@a | That$3$ Creatures there Distinctly may reside 991:07,259@a | And now behold I that$6#1$ have long Endured 991:07,260@a | Men's horrid Crimes, whose patience scoffs procured 991:07,261@a | I that$6#1$ by$4$ Threats endeavoured to$9$ prevent 991:07,262@a | The fatal stroke; allowed time to$9$ repent 991:07,263@a | That$6#1$ sent so$5#1$ many Messengers in$4$ vain 991:07,264@a | That$6#1$ long Contest with sinners did maintain 991:07,265@a | At last In$4$ my just Judgment gave them over 991:07,266@a | When my abused Grace inflamed their store 991:07,267@a | I that$6#1$ Long suffering was, to$4$ vengeance slow 991:07,268@a | I that$6#1$ so$5#1$ oft bewailed their overthrow 991:07,269@a | I even I a flood of Waters bring 991:07,270@a | Whose greedy Waves shall swallow everything 991:07,271@a | That$6#1$ doth in$4$ Living breath respire the Air 991:07,272@a | Nor shall it any of the Creatures spare 991:07,273@a | That$6#1$ move beneath the bright all Covering Sky 991:07,274@a | Whatever Earth Contains at once shall die 991:07,275@a | Only to$4$ thee I will$1$ Indulgence grant 991:07,276@a | With thee Confirm the gracing Covenant 991:07,277@a | Renewed to$4$ Man when I of Human seed 991:07,278@a | A Conqueror over Hell and Death decreed 991:07,279@a | In$4$ the prepared Ark thou shalt survive 991:07,280@a | Thy wife and Children kept with thee alive 991:07,281@a | Of all the Creatures thou shalt bring in$4$ too 991:07,282@a | Of every kind That$6#2$ species to$9$ renew 991:07,283@a | Thou also shalt all sorts of food provide 991:07,284@a | Whereby thyself and they may be supplied 991:07,285[A ]| Noah without dispute the Lord obeyed 991:07,286[A ]| No$2$ faithless staggering objections made 991:07,287[A ]| Which$6#1$ in$4$ a scrupulous Carnal soul might rise 991:07,288[A ]| But with full Confidence on$4$ God relies 991:07,289[A ]| Flesh might have said 991:07,289@b | what will$1$ this Arke avail 991:07,290@b | When there is no$2$ shore to$4$ which$6#1$ the boat can sail 991:07,291@b | Why should we Choose this nasty sepulchre 991:07,292@b | And lingering Death before quick ease prefer 991:07,293@b | What Matters it Whether Choked in$4$ the flood 991:07,294@b | We soon expire, or when the exhausted food 991:07,295@b | Is spent; In$4$ hunger's dry jaws slowly waste 991:07,296@b | In$4$ vain preserved for$4$ A worse death at Last 991:07,297@b | Is life desirable drawn out in$4$ Woe 991:07,298@b | When horrid Threatening stormes on$4$ all hands blow 991:07,299@b | When panthers, Tigers, Bears, still in$4$ our sight 991:07,300@b | Present us dread, outliving all delight 991:08,000@@@@@| 991:08,001[A ]| Next day after the Lord revealed his Grace 991:08,002[A ]| All things appeared with A new Cheerful face 991:08,003[A ]| The sun no$2$ more its Radiant Lustre shrouds 991:08,004[A ]| Muffled in$4$ dismal black and weeping Clouds 991:08,005[A ]| Which$6#1$ seemed to$9$ have extinguished his bright fire 991:08,006[A ]| While Heaven Mourned under its Maker's Ire 991:08,007[A ]| No$2$ more did Watery fog the Air Condense 991:08,008[A ]| Shutting out all Superior brightness thence 991:08,009[A ]| While thick black did the dying world Enfold 991:08,010[A ]| Now the veil thinner drawn Azure and Gold 991:08,011[A ]| With paler flames, Carnation Sky and white 991:08,012[A ]| Vary the sweet Reflections of the Light 991:08,013[A ]| No$2$ more did seas disordered as before 991:08,014[A ]| Swell up$5$ like$4$ Mountains and with fury Roar 991:08,015[A ]| But calm as peace in$4$ a Broad Level Lay 991:08,016[A ]| Where the winds Rage turned all to$4$ sportive play 991:08,017[A ]| One while in$4$ Rings the fluid Waters twirls 991:08,018[A ]| With the next breath varies the latest Curls 991:08,019[A ]| As Women with their proud fantastic Care 991:08,020[A ]| Never satisfied, set and unset their hair 991:08,021[A ]| A Thousand Times before they themselves can please 991:08,022[A ]| So$3$ played the soft Gales on$4$ the varied seas 991:08,023[A ]| Now Crisped, now marbled the successive streams 991:08,024[A ]| Now weaved them into braids with glittering beams 991:08,025[A ]| Whose penetrations Changed their sullen Hue 991:08,026[A ]| While Gold appeared through the transparent blue 991:08,027[A ]| What will$1$ full Restoration be if this 991:08,028[A ]| But the first day break of God's favour is 991:08,029[A ]| Through which$6#1$ as Heaven still benignly shines 991:08,030[A ]| So$5#1$ still the late Insulting flood declines. 991:08,031[A ]| Till after forty days Continued Waste 991:08,032[A ]| The Mountains' long hid Heads emerged at Last 991:08,033[A ]| And now A pleasant difference was seen 991:08,034[A ]| Between the sea and Earth's more perfect green 991:08,035[A ]| Yet As A prince who$6#1$ long in$4$ prison bound 991:08,036[A ]| Comes squalid forth at first, untrimmed uncrowned 991:08,037[A ]| So$3$ Rose the Mountains from the Imprisoning flood 991:08,038[A ]| Their faces slimed their standards dropping mud 991:08,039[A ]| When Heaven's Compassionate kind refreshing Eye 991:08,040[A ]| With its all Clearing Glances looked them dry 991:08,041[A ]| More gently washed with Night's descending dew 991:08,042[A ]| Again they fair, again they stately grew 991:08,043[A ]| Again looked down on$4$ the sunk Realm where they 991:08,044[A ]| So$5#1$ long space late Captived and vanquished Lay. 991:08,045[A ]| But Curb fair hills, O Curb your growing pride 991:08,046[A ]| He who$6#1$ above your Covering Clouds doth Ride 991:08,047[A ]| Whose pity drew you from your low Estate 991:08,048[A ]| When you Insult will$1$ Cast down your proud height 991:08,049[A ]| If humbled waters must no$2$ more asscend 991:08,050[A ]| Thunders will$1$ fall which$6#1$ shall your bosoms Rend 991:08,051[A ]| Your now restored Glory shall Expire 991:08,052[A ]| To$4$ Ashes Turned in$4$ the World's funeral fire 991:08,053[A ]| And you Great Lords who$6#1$ on$4$ the Mountains Reign 991:08,054[A ]| With them shall once more be destroyed again 991:08,055[A ]| When you through Horror run into the Caves 991:08,056[A ]| The Almighty's voice shall open all your Graves 991:08,057[A ]| And draw you trembling out to$9$ see them high 991:08,058[A ]| To$4$ whom your pride did sepulture deny 991:08,059[A ]| But while you think his threatened day far off 991:08,060[A ]| Like$4$ the old world you these predictions scoff 991:08,061[A ]| With Blindnesse Cursed; not to$9$ recover sight 991:08,062[A ]| Till your own dreadful flames be your first Light 991:08,063[A ]| But let us not glance at Judgments due to$4$ you 991:08,064[A ]| While we old Miracles of Grace review 991:08,065[A ]| Grace which$6#1$ did not Confound with violence 991:08,066[A ]| But gently Issuing, feasted Human sense 991:08,067[A ]| With such variety of sweet delight 991:08,068[A ]| As fed at once and bred new appetite 991:08,069[A ]| Safe are those precious Joyes which$6#1$ so$5#2$ distil 991:08,070[A ]| Endangering not the vessels they would fill 991:08,071[A ]| The Ark which$6#1$ Noah through the wild waves bore 991:08,072[A ]| Left on$4$ firm ground where seas could come no$2$ more 991:08,073[A ]| Did Like$4$ a fortress on$4$ the Mountains stand 991:08,074[A ]| The only Habitation in$4$ the Land 991:08,075[A ]| Which$6#1$ having brought him thither Noah yet 991:08,076[A ]| Did not with rash precipitation quit 991:08,077[A ]| But from the Mountain's first appearance stays 991:08,078[A ]| In$4$ quiet Expectation forty days 991:08,079[A ]| Then did the Windows of the Ark unclose 991:08,080[A ]| And for$4$ his messenger A Raven Chose 991:08,081[A ]| Whom he into the new World sends to$9$ see 991:08,082[A ]| If yet there any food or firm Rest be 991:08,083[A ]| The Melancholy Bird no$2$ Towerings made 991:08,084[A ]| But Hovering all about the Ark there stayed 991:08,085[A ]| Until the sun had dried the Earth's wet face 991:08,086[A ]| Then for$4$ herself sought out her natural place 991:08,087[A ]| So$3$ in$4$ the Church that$6#1$ is figured by$4$ this Ark 991:08,088[A ]| Impure and pure together may Embark 991:08,089[A ]| While showers of vengeance blacken in$4$ the Skies 991:08,090[A ]| Threatening A Deluge of Calamities 991:08,091[A ]| To$4$ the polluted World; which$6#1$ if they fly 991:08,092[A ]| A while Concealed they in$4$ its bosom Lie 991:08,093[A ]| But Issuing thence, though for$4$ a little space 991:08,094[A ]| Not quit of dread, they hang about the place 991:08,095[A ]| Until they find their Earthly Joys renewed 991:08,096[A ]| Yet then they seek again their Carrion food 991:08,097[A ]| And foul delights and utterly forsake 991:08,098[A ]| What in$4$ distress they did their shelter make 991:08,099[A ]| Nor that$6#2$ alone but turn to$4$ open hate 991:08,100[A ]| Of those with whom they did associate 991:08,101[A ]| And As when A weak sheep expiring Lies 991:08,102[A ]| These Ravenous birds alive pick out her Eyes 991:08,103[A ]| So$3$ doth A late Church fostered Hypocrite 991:08,104[A ]| Watch to$9$ put out A sick saint's dying Light 991:08,105[A ]| We from this ill presaging bird may draw 991:08,106[A ]| A parallel of the Death denouncing Care 991:08,107[A ]| Who$6#1$ sent forth, the soul's Comfort to$9$ Explore 991:08,108[A ]| No$2$ restoration finds but ever more 991:08,109[A ]| Ingeminating Curses with hoarse Cries 991:08,110[A ]| About the secure Roofs and windows flies 991:08,111[A ]| After he sent the Raven forth seven days 991:08,112[A ]| Hoping the sun had with his drying Rays 991:08,113[A ]| Exhaled the Wet; Noah ill satisfied 991:08,114[A ]| With that$6#2$ first messenger; A dove Employed 991:08,115[A ]| Who$6#1$ with high mounting wings the soft Air Cleaves 991:08,116[A ]| And A long tract of Skies behind her leaves 991:08,117[A ]| But when her Curious search, because the ground 991:08,118[A ]| was yet undried, not firm Clean footing found 991:08,119[A ]| With tired pinions to$4$ the Ark again 991:08,120[A ]| She came for$4$ succour and was taken in$5$ 991:08,121[A ]| Endeavours though they want success and still 991:08,122[A ]| Acceptable, with the same Cheerful will$0$ 991:08,123[A ]| Performed, as those which$6#1$ happier Issues gain 991:08,124[A ]| Nor do Just Lords such services disdain 991:08,125[A ]| When seven days more had with Time's Current Run 991:08,126[A ]| The Dove sent forth again her flight begun 991:08,127[A ]| Cutting her passage through the spacious skies 991:08,128[A ]| Where keeping on$4$ her wing she bent her eyes 991:08,129[A ]| On$4$ the underlying world discovers there 991:08,130[A ]| An Olive, whose fresh boughs new flourished were 991:08,131[A ]| Here she descends, a while her journey stops 991:08,132[A ]| And one of the fair sprouting branches Crops 991:08,133[A ]| Wherewith again she mounts her outstretched wings 991:08,134[A ]| And in$4$ her Mouth the happy Ensign brings 991:08,135[A ]| A pledge of peace; Implying that$3$ Love once more 991:08,136[A ]| Renewed the world which$6#1$ it produced before 991:08,137[A ]| In$4$ memory of this, The olive Tree 991:08,138[A ]| Was after Sacred to$4$ posterity 991:08,139[A ]| So$3$ that$3$ in$4$ Embassies where peace was sought 991:08,140[A ]| The humble suppliants still those branches brought 991:08,141[A ]| But this Dove's olive was the effect and sign 991:08,142[A ]| Of A pacification more Divine 991:08,143[A ]| Peace which$6#1$ all other blessings Comprehends 991:08,144[A ]| Springs not from the earth, though it to$4$ Earth descends 991:08,145[A ]| Its pure untroubled fountain is above 991:08,146[A ]| In$4$ the fair bosom of Eternal Love 991:08,147[A ]| The pledges here, Types, hopes, Effects, are All 991:08,148[A ]| But various streams from that$6#2$ original 991:08,149[A ]| Earth's Restoration did from thence proceed 991:08,150[A ]| When peace in$4$ Heaven was for$4$ men agreed 991:08,151[A ]| After sin had averted God's first Grace 991:08,152[A ]| And brought A flood of wrath on$4$ Human Race 991:08,153[A ]| That$3$ Gracious providence might so$5#2$ prepare 991:08,154[A ]| The prince of peace A proper Theatre 991:08,155[A ]| Where to$9$ Confirm the Heavenly Sanction He 991:08,156[A ]| A while might Conversant with Mortals be 991:08,157[A ]| This done, Emblems the spirit which$6#1$ in$4$ prayer 991:08,158[A ]| Ascending Heaven is directed there 991:08,159[A ]| To$9$ make a stoop on$4$ that$6#2$ late leafless Tree 991:08,160[A ]| Where dying Love destroyed the Enmity 991:08,161[A ]| And Caused new peace, life, pleasure health to$9$ sprout 991:08,162[A ]| Sending the Everlasting Gospel out 991:08,163[A ]| Which$6#1$ in$4$ its Mouth the Active spirit brings 991:08,164[A ]| The sight of whose returning radiant Wings 991:08,165[A ]| With the glad pledge A firm hope reassures 991:08,166[A ]| To$4$ those whom mercy's dark womb yet obscures. 991:08,167[A ]| Of All the plants that$6#1$ spring up$5$ from the ground 991:08,168[A ]| With more or Richer blessings none are Crowned 991:08,169[A ]| Than are the olive, which$6#1$ still feeds that$6#2$ Light 991:08,170[A ]| That$6#1$ makes the Altar and the Temple bright 991:08,171[A ]| Gives lustre to$4$ the face poisons Expels 991:08,172[A ]| All Rankling wounds, All venomous bitings heals 991:08,173[A ]| Produceth softness smoothness supplies ease 991:08,174[A ]| Fattening all food allaying all disease 991:08,175[A ]| Such are the blest effects the Gospel hath 991:08,176[A ]| On$4$ sinners Wounded with the sense of wrath 991:08,177[A ]| By$4$ fiery serpents stung, It cures their smart. 991:08,178[A ]| Rough Nature smooths, softens the obdurate heart 991:08,179[A ]| Feeds the Internal Temples Lamps of Grace 991:08,180[A ]| And sets sweet Lustre on$4$ the Exterior face 991:08,181[A ]| But where these glorious great effects are wrought 991:08,182[A ]| The Olive must in$4$ the Dove's mouth be brought 991:08,183[A ]| For$3$ Fruitless is the Gospel Remedy 991:08,184[A ]| Except the spirit do the Cure Apply 991:08,185[A ]| But to$9$ proceed: yet six days had the Light 991:08,186[A ]| To$4$ Shades resigned A seventh Chased the Night 991:08,187[A ]| When Noah sent his dove out as before 991:08,188[A ]| Who$6#1$ after that$6#2$ third flight returned no$2$ More 991:08,189[A ]| Great Father, when my soul shall fly away 991:08,190[A ]| Out of this flesh, when thou this house of Clay 991:08,191[A ]| Shalt with thy breath dissolve, O let me then 991:08,192[A ]| The swift Wings of thy sacred Dove obtain 991:08,193[A ]| Which$6#1$ may bear up$5$ my soul through Empty Air 991:08,194[A ]| To$4$ thy Celestial Court and fix it there 991:08,195[A ]| Noah thus knowing that$3$ the World was dry 991:08,196[A ]| Laid his Ark open to$4$ the Cheerful Sky 991:08,197[A ]| And from the Decks his glad eyes recreates 991:08,198[A ]| While he the Almighty's farther order waits 991:08,199[A ]| Nor stayed he long but Licensed by$4$ Command 991:08,200[A ]| Opens the door and gets the freight on$4$ land 991:08,201[A ]| Gladly the Creatures their long prison leave 991:08,202[A ]| Their old minds with their liberties receive 991:08,203[A ]| And now no$2$ more observe the loving truce 991:08,204[A ]| Which$6#1$ their late Common danger did produce 991:08,205[A ]| All led by$4$ Nature's secret Guide soon find 991:08,206[A ]| The habitations proper to$4$ each kind 991:08,207[A ]| Again the gentle Amorous Turtle Doves 991:08,208[A ]| Single their Mates in$4$ solitary Groves 991:08,209[A ]| The greedy kites and murderous beasts of prey 991:08,210[A ]| Their Wings like$4$ Standards in$4$ the Skies display 991:08,211[A ]| Threatening the weaker and the gentler brood 991:08,212[A ]| Who$6#1$ seek again the shelter of the wood 991:08,213[A ]| The owl herself in$4$ hollow Trees Conceals 991:08,214[A ]| The light no$2$ more her ugly looks reveals 991:08,215[A ]| Geese poultry Ducks, all turn to$4$ their old haunts 991:08,216[A ]| Swans to$4$ the streams, to$4$ Rocks the Cormorants 991:08,217[A ]| In$4$ Cloud wrapped Trees, Eagles their Eyries build 991:08,218[A ]| Partridges make their beds in$4$ the green fields 991:08,219[A ]| Sweet Nightingales, and the small Sylvan choir 991:08,220[A ]| To$4$ Solitary Thickets all Retire 991:08,221[A ]| The Reptiles to$4$ their various dwellings Creep 991:08,222[A ]| Unlovely things themselves in$4$ dark holes keep 991:08,223[A ]| Cruel wild Beasts seek Coverts from the Light 991:08,224[A ]| Waiting in$4$ Deserts for$4$ the Treacherous Night 991:08,225[A ]| Serpents Conceal themselves in$4$ Rushy fens 991:08,226[A ]| And other Monsters Lurk in$4$ Secret Dens 991:08,227[A ]| Foxes to$4$ their well guarded holes resort 991:08,228[A ]| Lions make shallow Caves their Mountain fort 991:08,229[A ]| Some Melancholy Creatures urged with dread 991:08,230[A ]| Into Concealing solitudes are led 991:08,231[A ]| And while they waste their Lives in$4$ Musings there 991:08,232[A ]| They almost starve themselves to$9$ feed their fear 991:08,233[A ]| Whose hearts plot mischiefs murders, stealths and fraud 991:08,234[A ]| Muffled in$4$ darkness only walk abroad. 991:08,235[A ]| But all that$6#1$ is hurtless kind and Lovely play 991:08,236[A ]| In$4$ open fields, nor shun the Cheerful Day 991:08,237[A ]| So$3$ generous Horses in$4$ the Valleys feed 991:08,238[A ]| And Beauteous kine in$4$ the green Meadows breed 991:08,239[A ]| The gentle sheep in$4$ open pastures graze 991:08,240[A ]| And fly not from the sun's discerning Rays 991:08,241[A ]| All Creatures else thus to$4$ their places sent 991:08,242[A ]| Noah himself his wife and Children went 991:08,243[A ]| Last forth, with solemn pace and Reverent dread 991:08,244[A ]| Heaving his Eyes and bowing down his Head 991:08,245[A ]| While he the Almighty God did there Adore 991:08,246[A ]| Who$6#1$ had conducted them to$4$ the dry Shore 991:08,247[A ]| Where he before he his own house projects 991:08,248[A ]| An Altar to$4$ the Lord of Life Erects 991:08,249[A ]| So$5#2$ Consecrating the restored ground 991:08,250[A ]| Which$6#1$ first he did for$4$ holy service wound 991:08,251[A ]| Then on$4$ it the long destined victims Slays 991:08,252[A ]| And as they burnt, with fervent prayer and praise 991:08,253[A ]| His Heart he for$4$ a Living Sacrifice 991:08,254[A ]| presents unto the Almighty's well pleased Eyes 991:08,255[A ]| Wherefore delighted in$4$ the perfumed smoke 991:08,256[A ]| Jehovah thus his gracious purpose Spoke 991:08,257[A ]| Although Man's Nature be Corrupted still 991:08,258[A ]| And all his thoughts Even from his Childhood still 991:08,259[A ]| I will$1$ not yet for$4$ his unpurged stain 991:08,260[A ]| Inflict my Curse upon$4$ the Earth again 991:08,261[A ]| An universal Deluge shall no$2$ more 991:08,262[A ]| Destroy all Lives as it hath done before 991:08,263[A ]| While the World stands in$4$ its vicissitude 991:08,264[A ]| The various Seasons shall be still renewed 991:08,265[A ]| Moist springs when seed into the Earth is thrown 991:08,266[A ]| Fair weather when those seeds are Ripe fruits grown 991:08,267[A ]| Successive Cold shall temper the hot Air 991:08,268[A ]| And due Heat shall Expel the Cold frosts there 991:08,269[A ]| Rough Winters shall in$4$ their Just Course prevail 991:08,270[A ]| And after pleasant Summers shall not fail 991:08,271[A ]| Night shall succeed the Day and Day again 991:08,272[A ]| Shall never Cease to$9$ Employ the Alternate Reign 991:08,273[A ]| And that$3$ they might not be too much oppressed 991:08,274[A ]| With sad discouragments the Almighty Blessed 991:08,275[A ]| Noah and his sons with the same Word of Grace 991:08,276[A ]| He used before to$4$ the first founder of Man's Race 991:08,277@a | Increase 991:08,277[A ]| said he 991:08,277@a | and Multiply, until 991:08,278@a | Your numerous offspring shall the whole Earth fill 991:08,279@a | My delegated power to$4$ you I give 991:08,280@a | Over the whole Creation, those that$6#1$ Live 991:08,281@a | In$4$ the Watery Element, In$4$ moist Air fly 991:08,282@a | Walk on$4$ the Earth or in$4$ her Crannies lie 991:08,283@a | To$4$ your Dominion I Subject them All 991:08,284@a | Let them under your Awful Terror fall 991:08,285@a | Dispose them as you please their flesh is meat 991:08,286@a | As free as growing fruits for$4$ you to$9$ eat 991:08,287@a | But eating flesh you shall from blood abstain 991:08,288@a | For$3$ blood the quickening Spirits do Contain 991:08,289@a | Your Blood wherein your Human lives reside 991:08,290@a | I will$1$ require of every homicide 991:08,291@a | No$2$ one unpunished shall commit that$6#2$ fact 991:08,292@a | Even of Beasts I will$1$ your Blood Exact 991:08,293@a | Much more those men who$6#1$ Violators prove 991:08,294@a | Of Human Rites and of fraternal Love 991:08,295@a | No$2$ favour in$4$ their Bloody guilt shall find 991:08,296@a | But men shall slay the Murderers of Mankind 991:08,297@a | Because they thereby God himself Contemn 991:08,298@a | For$3$ in$4$ his Image he Created them 991:08,299@a | But be you fruitful Cherish those you breed 991:08,300@a | And Multiply A numerous spreading seed 991:09,000@@@@@| 991:09,001[A ]| Noah and his sons gladly God's promise heard 991:09,002[A ]| And in$4$ the hopes of their Successors cheered 991:09,003[A ]| Those dreadful horrors from their thoughts expelled 991:09,004[A ]| Which$6#1$ seized their frighted Souls when they beheld 991:09,005[A ]| The Old world's ruin that$6#2$ sad sight forgot 991:09,006[A ]| The dead they now vainly lamented not 991:09,007[A ]| Applying all their thoughts and busy cares 991:09,008[A ]| To$9$ plant and build for$4$ their succeeding heirs 991:09,009[A ]| Now were the sunny hills covered with Vines 991:09,010[A ]| And from the swelling grapes they press forth wines 991:09,011[A ]| Then Noah of the sparkling juice drunk deep 991:09,012[A ]| And stupefied with liquor fell asleep 991:09,013[A ]| Whom Ham his scoffing Son in$4$ lewd plight found 991:09,014[A ]| Immodestly uncovered on$4$ the ground 991:09,015[A ]| Of all the generous and useful plants 991:09,016[A ]| Earth nourisheth for$4$ her inhabitants 991:09,017[A ]| None more abounds with blessings than the Vine 991:09,018[A ]| In$4$ whose fair arms numberless bottles shine 991:09,019[A ]| All filled with precious noble powerful juice 991:09,020[A ]| Which$6#1$ doth a thousand miracles produce 991:09,021[A ]| It reinflames sick nature's dying fires 991:09,022[A ]| New vigour adds to$4$ those whom Labour tires 991:09,023[A ]| Revives Sad hearts oppressed with loads of grief 991:09,024[A ]| To$4$ low dejected spirits gives relief 991:09,025[A ]| It valour animates dispels cold fears 991:09,026[A ]| Vigour of youth recalls to$4$ wasted years 991:09,027[A ]| Conquers that$6#2$ dull that$6#2$ poor unmanly shame 991:09,028[A ]| That$6#1$ in$4$ faint Breasts smothers a glorious flame 991:09,029[A ]| Raises dull fancy to$4$ its noblest flights 991:09,030[A ]| Quickens the dead and languid appetites 991:09,031[A ]| The baths of it cold palsied limbs restore 991:09,032[A ]| For$4$ these and many Sovereign virtues more 991:09,033[A ]| The after ages held those men divine 991:09,034[A ]| Who$6#1$ taught the nations the first use of wine 991:09,035[A ]| Wine which$6#1$ they did to$4$ sacred Altars bring 991:09,036[A ]| As the most rich and precious offering 991:09,037[A ]| They could elect among those various fruits 991:09,038[A ]| Heaven's bounty by$4$ the kind Earth contributes 991:09,039[A ]| But whatever most excels in$4$ its right use 991:09,040[A ]| Is most pernicious in$4$ its vile abuse 991:09,041[A ]| Wine which$6#1$ drunk moderately doth mortals bless 991:09,042[A ]| So$5#1$ many various ways, by$4$ its excess 991:09,043[A ]| As many various mischiefs doth produce 991:09,044[A ]| And turns a poisonous and bewitching juice 991:09,045[A ]| Whose operation by$4$ the effects is shown 991:09,046[A ]| When it doth Sovereign Reason disenthrone 991:09,047[A ]| Reason that$6#1$ ruled as Monarch in$4$ the breast 991:09,048[A ]| The great distinction between man and beast 991:09,049[A ]| Which$6#1$ charmed by$4$ it hath no$2$ force to$9$ control 991:09,050[A ]| The transportation of the feeble Soul 991:09,051[A ]| Whose lustful and whose raging appetite 991:09,052[A ]| The too inflaming liquor doth excite 991:09,053[A ]| According to$4$ the rate that$3$ it prevails 991:09,054[A ]| The understanding and the memory fails 991:09,055[A ]| Forgotten are friendships and nature's ties 991:09,056[A ]| All Obligation and all injuries 991:09,057[A ]| There rivals bury for$4$ a while their hate 991:09,058[A ]| And wretches drown the sense of their sad state 991:09,059[A ]| Princes forget their Ranks and great affairs 991:09,060[A ]| Cast off their kingdom's necessary cares 991:09,061[A ]| And revel in$4$ their drunken jollities 991:09,062[A ]| Till unwatched foes the silly beasts surprise 991:09,063[A ]| So$3$ was Belshazzar cut off in$4$ his sin 991:09,064[A ]| When the Besieging Persians suddenly broke in$5$ 991:09,065[A ]| So$3$ have great Conquerors oft met sudden falls 991:09,066[A ]| And drunk themselves into their funerals 991:09,067[A ]| While the Lethean cups sealed up$5$ their Eyes 991:09,068[A ]| Forgetting all the dangers of surprise 991:09,069[A ]| Oft so$5#1$ forgetful of Eternity 991:09,070[A ]| The vulgar drunkards in$4$ their surfeits die 991:09,071[A ]| Who$6#1$ wine adore, because it will$1$ not let them think 991:09,072[A ]| A serious thought of heaven till into hell they sink 991:09,073[A ]| To$4$ it they sacrifice their glorious days 991:09,074[A ]| Wracking their wits to$9$ celebrate its praise 991:09,075[A ]| Nor give tired nature the relief of sleep 991:09,076[A ]| Till they their brains in$4$ their crowned goblets steep 991:09,077[A ]| When the wine working with wild fancy makes 991:09,078[A ]| False dreams of pleasure horrid sad mistakes 991:09,079[A ]| Which$6#1$ waking too unhappily they find 991:09,080[A ]| Yet the infection rooted in$4$ the mind 991:09,081[A ]| They violently court their plague again 991:09,082[A ]| Run into brutishness and thirst for$4$ pain 991:09,083[A ]| For$3$ where the force of conquering drink prevails 991:09,084[A ]| The Sight growes dim the active vigour fails 991:09,085[A ]| The weak legs can not bear the members' weight 991:09,086[A ]| But march with an uncertain staggering gait 991:09,087[A ]| The eyes deeper sunk no$2$ liveliness retain 991:09,088[A ]| Black misty vapours fume up$5$ to$4$ the brain 991:09,089[A ]| Trembling the hands numbness the joints invades 991:09,090[A ]| Sickness the Stomach the fresh Colour fades 991:09,091[A ]| All over cold sweats and ghastly paleness creep 991:09,092[A ]| Till the faint spirits yield to$4$ deathlike sleep 991:09,093[A ]| Which$6#1$ lays all down in$4$ their transformed shapes 991:09,094[A ]| Some wanton and ridicuous like$4$ Apes 991:09,095[A ]| Some roaring with more senseless furious wrath 991:09,096[A ]| Than the fierce mastiff or the Lion hath 991:09,097[A ]| Some acting Goats whose bloods hot Lust doth fire 991:09,098[A ]| Some nasty swine that$6#1$ wallow in$4$ foul mire 991:09,099[A ]| Some filthy Dogs by$4$ loathsome vomits made 991:09,100[A ]| The stupid Ass the sottish drunkard played 991:09,101[A ]| Nor from the form of man alone estranged 991:09,102[A ]| But in$4$ their proper inclinations changed 991:09,103[A ]| The powerful charm makes Cowards brave and bold 991:09,104[A ]| Makes Misers cast away their hoarded Gold 991:09,105[A ]| The Silent talk the talkative sit dumb 991:09,106[A ]| The froward kind the patient quarrelsome 991:09,107[A ]| Base minds to$4$ high and haughty thoughts erecting 991:09,108[A ]| And to$4$ mean Actions noble souls dejecting 991:09,109[A ]| It makes the cold and chaste burn with wild fires 991:09,110[A ]| In$4$ the hot Lover drowns all fierce desires 991:09,111[A ]| The effeminate to$4$ manly act excites 991:09,112[A ]| The bold and brave inclines to$4$ soft delights 991:09,113[A ]| Makes Sly dissemblers hidden truth reveal 991:09,114[A ]| And the open hearted everything conceal 991:09,115[A ]| Nor doth it always work by$4$ contraries 991:09,116[A ]| By$4$ horrid transformation and disguise 991:09,117[A ]| As oft it doth men's inclinations draw 991:09,118[A ]| Without regard of any bound or awe 991:09,119[A ]| To$4$ the extremest acting of their powers 991:09,120[A ]| Which$6#1$ all their merit and their praise devours 991:09,121[A ]| Rendering them monstrous who$6#1$ exceed all Rules 991:09,122[A ]| Exposing wise men to$4$ the scorn of fools 991:09,123[A ]| Yet though the greatest drunkards this confess 991:09,124[A ]| There is that$6#2$ witchery in$4$ drunkenness 991:09,125[A ]| That$3$ wheresoever it is indulged at first 991:09,126[A ]| The infection causes an unquenched thirst 991:09,127[A ]| Which$6#1$ makes them still pursue the sin although 991:09,128[A ]| They all the cursed consequences know 991:09,129[A ]| And their own follies in$4$ all else despise 991:09,130[A ]| Which$6#1$ when they can not conquer they devise 991:09,131[A ]| Extenuating pretences for$4$ it and say 991:09,132[A ]| They drink to$9$ drive their anxious cares away 991:09,133[A ]| To$9$ entertain the melancholy night 991:09,134[A ]| Which$6#1$ did they not soft slumbers thus invite 991:09,135[A ]| Would vainly be consumed in$4$ waking grief 991:09,136[A ]| Wine is the only sovereign relief 991:09,137[A ]| For$4$ that$6#2$ inevitable woe that$6#1$ waits 991:09,138[A ]| On$4$ human life perplexing all estates 991:09,139[A ]| Which$6#1$ drowns the memory of ills that$6#1$ are 991:09,140[A ]| Already past and future fears doth bar 991:09,141[A ]| Which$6#1$ stifles sorrow and gives hope new birth 991:09,142[A ]| Glad hope the nurse of life prolonging mirth 991:09,143[A ]| Dull impious argument foolish pretence 991:09,144[A ]| Sad aggravation of the great offence 991:09,145[A ]| By$4$ ignorant fools and vicious cowards sought 991:09,146[A ]| By$4$ the voluptuous cheating devils taught 991:09,147[A ]| Should silly mortals shunning dread and woe 991:09,148[A ]| Their refuge seek in$4$ that$6#2$ from whence they flow 991:09,149[A ]| Intemperance with disobedience joined 991:09,150[A ]| Began the fatal ruin of mankind 991:09,151[A ]| Are long renewed experiences so$5#1$ scant 991:09,152[A ]| Or can we an unhappy instance want 991:09,153[A ]| How vain how contrary is that$6#2$ delight 991:09,154[A ]| Propounded by$4$ the Brutish appetite 991:09,155[A ]| Is Frenzy, sickness, torture, impotence 991:09,156[A ]| Hot bloods cold sweats, faint powers, disordered sense 991:09,157[A ]| A happy cure of grief, a pleasant Ease 991:09,158[A ]| Adding ten plagues to$9$ drive out one disease 991:09,159[A ]| Which$6#1$ yet is but confounded not expelled 991:09,160[A ]| Like$4$ the poor infant's cries which$6#1$ Moloch held 991:09,161[A ]| Frying in$4$ his arms which$6#1$ with the various sound 991:09,162[A ]| Of barbarous instruments they strove to$9$ drowned 991:09,163[A ]| Were there no$2$ God no$2$ future heaven no$2$ hell 991:09,164[A ]| As those fools dream who$6#1$ thus would cares expel 991:09,165[A ]| Yet were it but unmanly Cowardice 991:09,166[A ]| So$5#2$ to$9$ decline short lived Calamities 991:09,167[A ]| And fly to$4$ vices rather than oppose 991:09,168[A ]| With virtuous courage fortunes hurtless blows 991:09,169[A ]| But neither could they be evaded so$5#2$ 991:09,170[A ]| Their arms in$4$ fight the drunkards from them throw 991:09,171[A ]| When in$4$ their flowing cups they drown their sense 991:09,172[A ]| Fame, Wit, Strength, virtue, Health, their chief defence 991:09,173[A ]| Against whatever can man's life invade 991:09,174[A ]| All which$6#1$ by$4$ this enchantment are betrayed 991:09,175[A ]| No$2$ lot is so$5#1$ unfortunate but may 991:09,176[A ]| Admit a change black nights must yield to$4$ day 991:09,177[A ]| But small advantage will$1$ he have of light 991:09,178[A ]| Who$6#1$ digged out his own eyes because it was night 991:09,179[A ]| His understanding quenched lest he should be 991:09,180[A ]| Too sensible of his Calamity 991:09,181[A ]| Most other sins are punished in$4$ the event 991:09,182[A ]| But this draws with it its own punishment 991:09,183[A ]| Especially in$4$ Princes who$6#1$ thereby 991:09,184[A ]| Make themselves cheap profane their majesty 991:09,185[A ]| Expose their shame unto their subjects' eyes 991:09,186[A ]| Who$6#1$ seing their impotence their Rule despise 991:09,187[A ]| Noah the new world's Monarch here lies drunk 991:09,188[A ]| His awful dread is with his temperance sunk 991:09,189[A ]| And Ham finding him naked on$4$ the Earth 991:09,190[A ]| Dares make him thus the subject of his mirth 991:09,191[A ]| Fears not to$9$ publish his indecent shame 991:09,192[A ]| And to$4$ his brethren doth the news proclaim 991:09,193[A ]| But they more pious hating to$9$ deride 991:09,194[A ]| A Father's frailty did contrive to$9$ hide 991:09,195[A ]| Even from their own eyes the sin tempting view 991:09,196[A ]| And with averted steps and faces drew 991:09,197[A ]| A covering on$4$ their naked sire till he 991:09,198[A ]| At his awaking found their piety 991:09,199[A ]| And the miscarriage of that$6#2$ lewder son 991:09,200[A ]| That$6#1$ would not spare him from derision 991:09,201[A ]| This knowledge did impress a various sense 991:09,202[A ]| Of the kind duty and the unkind offence 991:09,203[A ]| Which$6#1$ to$4$ a Prophet and a Magistrate 991:09,204[A ]| Thus did he sentence thus remunerate 991:09,205[A ]| Cursed be Canaan Vassalage his doom 991:09,206[A ]| His brothers' servants' servant to$9$ become 991:09,207[A ]| Blessed be the Gods of Shem by$4$ special grace 991:09,208[A ]| He shall be Lord of Canaan's servile race 991:09,209[A ]| God shall enlarge Japhet's still growing stem 991:09,210[A ]| He shall inhabit in$4$ the tents of Shem 991:09,211[A ]| And Canaan shall be servant unto him 991:09,212[A ]| <"> God shall persuade Japhet's compliant race 991:09,213[A ]| <"> To$9$ come and dwell in$4$ Shem's deserted place 991:09,214[A ]| Here Hell's malicious chief again renews 991:09,215[A ]| The fatal war and and his old hate pursues 991:09,216[A ]| Against the new foundation of mankind 991:09,217[A ]| Late in$4$ God's blessing laid this undermind 991:09,218[A ]| He at the fatal breach of one frail sin 991:09,219[A ]| Leads a large train of woes and curses in$5$ 991:09,220[A ]| A Prince and Father yielding to$4$ his sense 991:09,221[A ]| Divests himself of awe and reverence 991:09,222[A ]| Gives the more pious Children cause to$9$ mourn 991:09,223[A ]| And yields occasion to$4$ the Rebel's scorn 991:09,224[A ]| That$6#2$ scorn a Father's dreadful wrath provokes 991:09,225[A ]| Whose tender hand still smarts with its own strokes 991:09,226[A ]| Sad is a Parent's curse however given 991:09,227[A ]| And very seldom unconfirmed in$4$ heaven 991:09,228[A ]| Which$6#1$ when on$4$ the devoted head it falls 991:09,229[A ]| At once it punisheth two Criminals 991:09,230[A ]| Were not the governours first guilty by$4$ 991:09,231[A ]| Foolish remissnesse or harsh Tyranny 991:09,232[A ]| Or weake vice which$6#1$ betrays their impotence 991:09,233[A ]| And gives occasion to$4$ the next offence 991:09,234[A ]| Of those who$6#1$ formal Majesty despise 991:09,235[A ]| When sin's base slave struts in$4$ the great disguise 991:09,236[A ]| Pride and Rebellion under their wise curb 991:09,237[A ]| Would not start out and the whole state disturb 991:09,238[A ]| Who$6#1$ sentences his sons his own sins dooms 991:09,239[A ]| And his own Executioner becomes 991:09,240[A ]| Cutting those rotten limbs off that$6#1$ were fed 991:09,241[A ]| With corrupt influence from the unsound head 991:09,242[A ]| Yet when a Father is a Judge he must 991:09,243[A ]| Impartially discharge his sacred trust 991:09,244[A ]| When Guilty grace favours one criminal 991:09,245[A ]| Injustice draws down vengeance upon$4$ all 991:09,246[A ]| Those who$6#1$ the reins of Government remit 991:09,247[A ]| Because they have sinned must not persist in$4$ it 991:09,248[A ]| Lest finding a slack curb the headlong beast 991:09,249[A ]| In$4$ its loose fury run down all the rest 991:09,250[A ]| This remiss David found unpunished rape 991:09,251[A ]| Murder provokes the murderers escape 991:09,252[A ]| Rebellion did produce for$3$ where the law 991:09,253[A ]| Unexecuted is, reverence and awe 991:09,254[A ]| Sink in$4$ contempt and untamed hearts no$2$ more 991:09,255[A ]| The empty name of Royalty adore 991:09,256[A ]| God's pure laws are with such firm sanctions made 991:09,257[A ]| That$3$ however broke the forfeit must be paid 991:09,258[A ]| Though men indulge each other's crimes yet he 991:09,259[A ]| Will$1$ not a partial Judge to$4$ any be 991:09,260[A ]| Eternal wisdom so$5#2$ brought mercy in$5$ 991:09,261[A ]| That$3$ there is no$2$ impunity for$4$ sin 991:09,262[A ]| Especially their bold presumption who$6#1$ 991:09,263[A ]| To$9$ flatter lust made God nor just nor true 991:09,264[A ]| Nor steadfast in$4$ his holy fixed decrees 991:09,265[A ]| Who$6#1$ all sin with most just abhorrence sees 991:09,266[A ]| But why on$4$ Canaan doth the Curse descend 991:09,267[A ]| Since it was his Father Ham that$6#1$ did offend 991:09,268[A ]| Blessings once given God would not recall 991:09,269[A ]| Yet can he add unto the manna gall 991:09,270[A ]| When secure wantonness from that$6#2$ grace springs 991:09,271[A ]| That$6#1$ should engage men's hearts to$4$ better things 991:09,272[A ]| Ham's personal miseries with himself had died 991:09,273[A ]| But Slavery on$4$ his successors tied 991:09,274[A ]| Must needs afflict him more than all the woe 991:09,275[A ]| That$6#1$ he himself could singly undergo 991:09,276[A ]| Envy, remorse, disdain, anguish, and spite 991:09,277[A ]| Ulcerate his rankling proud heart day and night 991:09,278[A ]| When he revolves that$3$ by$4$ his aweless scorn 991:09,279[A ]| His Children equal to$4$ his brothers born 991:09,280[A ]| Excluded from the special blessing were 991:09,281[A ]| And all the common mercies they did share 991:09,282[A ]| But little would avail a hapless race 991:09,283[A ]| Still multiplied to$4$ Sorrow and disgrace 991:09,284[A ]| So$5#1$ heinous so$5#1$ degenerate a crime 991:09,285[A ]| Deserved a brand to$4$ all succeeding time 991:09,286[A ]| Who$6#1$ love to$9$ Scoff at others' frailties shall 991:09,287[A ]| Themselves at last into abjection fall 991:09,288[A ]| Ham's proud irreverent derision 991:09,289[A ]| Cut his whole offspring off although but one 991:09,290[A ]| Was by$4$ God's Sovereign will$0$ designed to$9$ be 991:09,291[A ]| The special instance of his just severity 991:09,292[A ]| Whose issue thus preventing grace denied 991:09,293[A ]| Pursued their father's disobedient pride 991:09,294[A ]| Till their own sins were ripe for$4$ vengeance grown 991:09,295[A ]| And justified the Execution. 991:09,296[A ]| Which$6#1$ though nine hundred years reprieved was not 991:09,297[A ]| In$4$ all that$6#2$ space remitted or forgot 991:09,298[A ]| When threatenings are delayed the wicked grow 991:09,299[A ]| Secure in$4$ ill But vengeance that$6#1$ is slow 991:09,300[A ]| By$4$ daily Aggravations gathers strength 991:11,000@@@@@| 991:11,001[A ]| The Sons of Shem with other nations mixed 991:11,002[A ]| In$4$ Ur a City of Caldea first 991:11,003[A ]| Where unto Peleg sprung of Heber's breed 991:11,004[A ]| Reu, Serug, Maher Terah did succeed 991:11,005[A ]| Terah the father of great Abraham 991:11,006[A ]| Who$6#1$ founder of the faithful state became 991:11,007[A ]| Him God called forth of his own native Soil 991:11,008[A ]| And thus excites to$9$ undergo the toil 991:11,009[A ]| Come leave these shores I will$1$ lead thee to$4$ a place 991:11,010[A ]| Where thou engendering an illustrious race 991:11,011[A ]| Shalt be a blessing to$4$ the earth In$4$ time 991:11,012[A ]| Thy glorious Nephews by$4$ my grace shall climb 991:11,013[A ]| To$4$ starry seats, delay not then, nor fear 991:11,014[A ]| To$9$ quit thy country and relations here 991:11,015[A ]| A holy seed out of thy loins shall rise 991:11,016[A ]| In$4$ thee shall all the whole earth's families 991:11,017[A ]| Their happiness find thou shalt a blessing be 991:11,018[A ]| For$3$ I will$1$ bless whoever blesseth thee 991:11,019[A ]| And such as curse thee shall themselves fare worse 991:11,020[A ]| For$3$ I will$1$ lay on$4$ them my heaviest curse 991:11,021[A ]| Abraham thus called forth by$4$ the Lord's command 991:11,022[A ]| Immediately left the Chaldean land 991:11,023[A ]| His brethren and his kindred there forsook 991:11,024[A ]| Only his wife and Lott his nephew took 991:11,025[A ]| With these he many unknown Cities passed 991:11,026[A ]| And to$4$ the land of Canaan came at last 991:11,027[A ]| Where then the cursed nations dwelt again 991:11,028[A ]| The Lord appeared to$4$ him in$4$ the large plain 991:11,029[A ]| Of Moreh where the Shechemites did live 991:11,030[A ]| And promisd he would all that$6#2$ country give 991:11,031[A ]| To$4$ Abraham's seed who$6#1$ with a grateful sense 991:11,032[A ]| There to$4$ the Lord an Altar raised and thence 991:11,033[A ]| To$4$ mountains on$4$ the east of Bethel went 991:11,034[A ]| And on$4$ those hills before he pitched his tent 991:11,035[A ]| Another Altar unto God did raise 991:11,036[A ]| Invoking his great name with prayer and praise 991:11,037[A ]| Soon after which$6#1$ that$6#2$ land yielded no$2$ grain 991:11,038[A ]| Which$6#1$ could his family with bread sustain 991:11,039[A ]| Famine drove him to$4$ Egypt whose fat soil 991:11,040[A ]| Needs not heaven's showers watered with their own Nile 991:11,041[A ]| But there his former resolution failed 991:11,042[A ]| And fear of death above his faith prevailed 991:11,043[A ]| Who$6#1$ thus to$4$ Sarah spoke 991:11,043@c | O thou my wife 991:11,044@c | And sister now have mercy on$4$ my life 991:11,045@c | Nor here the first of those dear titles own 991:11,046@c | But let the Sister's name be only known 991:11,047@c | For$3$ these are lustful men and thou art fair 991:11,048@c | If thy known marriage put them in$4$ despair 991:11,049@c | When they enamoured of thy Beauties be 991:11,050@c | I shall be killed that$3$ they may seize on$4$ thee 991:11,051[A ]| Sarah agreed and both the marriage hide 991:11,052[A ]| Professed the sister but the wife denied 991:11,053[A ]| And now her sparkling eyes dispersed the flame 991:11,054[A ]| And Egypt's king heard of her beauty's fame 991:11,055[A ]| Then he himself with eagerness desired 991:11,056[A ]| To$9$ see that$6#2$ face his Courtiers so$5#1$ admired 991:11,057[A ]| And sent for$4$ her Then those youths who$6#1$ before 991:11,058[A ]| Hoped for$4$ themselves did only then adore 991:11,059[A ]| The Excellencies of their future queen 991:11,060[A ]| Whom Pharaoh with such ravishment had seen 991:11,061[A ]| Upon$4$ her looks he feasted his glad sight 991:11,062[A ]| And drunk down love's infection with delight 991:11,063[A ]| The more she saw him burn the more she blazed 991:11,064[A ]| For$3$ blushes which$6#1$ her guilty fear had raised 991:11,065[A ]| The lustre of her beauty did augment 991:11,066[A ]| And more attractions to$4$ his eyes present. 991:11,067[A ]| Then in$4$ the court her lodgings were assigned 991:11,068[A ]| But there she did not any pleasure find 991:11,069[A ]| Her thoughts still fixed on$4$ her dear husband kept 991:11,070[A ]| And for$4$ the want of his loved presence wept. 991:11,071[A ]| But yet in$4$ private vents her griefs lest they 991:11,072[A ]| The secret of her marriage should betray 991:11,073[A ]| For$3$ as her brother kind to$4$ him they were 991:11,074[A ]| And largely he did Pharaoh's bounties share 991:11,075[A ]| Presents he had of Asses, Camels Kine 991:11,076[A ]| Servants, and sheep, for$3$ then there was no$2$ coin 991:11,077[A ]| And quick goods were the riches of those days 991:11,078[A ]| But God his Curse on$4$ Pharaoh's kingdom lays 991:11,079[A ]| Who$6#1$ seeking why those heavy plagues so$5#1$ reigned 991:11,080[A ]| Found he unjustly Abraham's wife detained 991:11,081[A ]| Whom he with grief to$4$ her own Lord returned 991:11,082[A ]| And now with rage as erst with love he burned 991:11,083@d | What madness 991:11,083[A ]| said he 991:11,083@d | did thy thoughts inspire 991:11,084@d | To$9$ kindle in$4$ me this unquenched desire 991:11,085@d | Whilst thou thy wife didst for$4$ thy sister own 991:11,086@d | I might myself have married her unknown 991:11,087@d | My guiltless land now suffers for$4$ thy sake 991:11,088@d | Wherefore thy wife with all thy substance take 991:11,089@d | And wholly from my injured sight remove 991:11,090@d | The lovely object of my lawless love 991:11,091@d | The fair enticer of forbidden love 991:11,092[A ]| The king dismissed them thus and gave command 991:11,093[A ]| They should receive safe conduct through the land 991:11,094[A ]| From Egypt then back to$4$ the south he went 991:11,095[A ]| And once again in$4$ Bethell pitched his tent 991:11,096[A ]| And on$4$ the Altar built when first he came 991:11,097[A ]| Into those parts again invoked God's name 991:11,098[A ]| His riches in$4$ his travels were increased 991:11,099[A ]| Silver and Gold he plenteously possessed 991:11,100[A ]| Both he and Lott had much improved their stocks 991:11,101[A ]| Abounding with large herds and bleating flocks 991:11,102[A ]| Which$6#1$ every day so$5#1$ multiplied their breed 991:11,103[A ]| They could no$2$ longer in$4$ one pasture feed 991:11,104[A ]| For$3$ then they sojourned with the Canaanite 991:11,105[A ]| And in$4$ that$6#2$ Country had no$2$ proper right 991:11,106[A ]| Wherefore their herdsmen straightened in$4$ the ground 991:11,107[A ]| So$5#1$ brawled that$3$ they forced Abram to$9$ propound 991:11,108[A ]| A separation from his kinsman so$5#2$ 991:11,109[A ]| What inconveniences in$4$ riches be 991:11,110[A ]| Their Servants' frequent quarrels now destroyed 991:11,111[A ]| That$6#2$ quiet they in$4$ meaner states enjoyed 991:11,112[A ]| Rich men drive all their dearest friends away 991:11,113[A ]| To$9$ make their own room large yet can not they 991:11,114[A ]| Assure themselves that$3$ they at last shall have 991:11,115[A ]| More of the earth than what serves for$4$ a grave. 991:11,116[A ]| When Abram saw contention still increased 991:11,117[A ]| To$4$ Lott his kinsman he this speech addressed 991:11,118@d | We brethren are and linked by$4$ many ties 991:11,119@d | Between us therefore let no$2$ quarrels rise 991:11,120@d | But to$9$ remove the cause divide our stocks 991:11,121@d | And choose out several pastures for$4$ our flocks 991:11,122@d | Make thy election what part of the land 991:11,123@d | Thou likest to$9$ inhabit if on$4$ the right hand 991:11,124@d | I will$1$ the left my habitation take 991:11,125@d | If thou choose that$6#2$ I will$1$ the right hand take 991:11,126[A ]| Then from the hills of Bethell Lott surveyed 991:11,127[A ]| The country round for$4$ his dwelling made 991:11,128[A ]| Choice of a pleasant vale through which$6#1$ did glide 991:11,129[A ]| Jordan's clear stream and all the river side 991:11,130[A ]| Adorned with trees which$6#1$ various fruits did bear 991:11,131[A ]| Made the rich plain a paradise appear 991:11,132[A ]| There for$4$ his flocks fresh pastures did abound 991:11,133[A ]| And silver currents watered all the ground 991:11,134[A ]| There saw he groves and cities all the grace 991:11,135[A ]| That$6#1$ could give ornament to$4$ the place 991:11,136[A ]| But lewd men did this pleasant land possess 991:11,137[A ]| For$3$ plenty oft occasions sinfulness 991:11,138[A ]| In$4$ prosperous fortunes men neglect their God 991:11,139[A ]| Nor think on$4$ him but when they feel his rod 991:11,140[A ]| Those only to$4$ Celestial seats aspire 991:11,141[A ]| Whom pressures in$4$ their earthly dwellings tire 991:11,142[A ]| None willingly part with the things that$6#1$ please 991:11,143[A ]| Or wish a change before they feel disease 991:11,144[A ]| Then God to$4$ Abram once again appeared 991:11,145[A ]| And in$4$ his Solitude his sad heart cheered 991:11,146@a | On$4$ all this land 991:11,146[A ]| said he 991:11,146@a | now cast thine eyes 991:11,147@a | Whatever on$4$ the north or south side lies 991:11,148@a | From the eastern hills where first the sun displays 991:11,149@a | The purple splendour of his early rays 991:11,150@a | To$4$ the western Sea in$4$ which$6#1$ his tear is drownd 991:11,151@a | All that$6#2$ long spacious tract of fruitful ground 991:11,152@a | I on$4$ thy future offspring will$1$ bestow 991:11,153@a | Whose families to$4$ such multitudes shall grow 991:11,154@a | That$3$ sands on$4$ the sea shore and all those bright 991:11,155@a | Ethereal flames which$6#1$ grace the silent night 991:11,156@a | Shall be as easily numbered as thy race 991:11,157@a | To$4$ whom I have decreed this ample space 991:11,158@a | Wherefore arise now the whole land survey 991:11,159@a | Pass through all the Countries every way 991:11,160@a | And when thou dost those pleasant regions see 991:11,161@a | Know they are reservd for$4$ thy posterity 991:11,162[A ]| Abram obeyed the Lord from Bethell went 991:11,163[A ]| And in$4$ the plain of Mamre pitched his tent 991:11,164[A ]| There to$4$ the Lord another Altar rears 991:11,165[A ]| Soon after breathless at his tent appears 991:11,166[A ]| A man whose staring eyes full of affright 991:11,167[A ]| Express ill news before he could recite 991:11,168[A ]| How war had ruined Sodom's glorious state 991:11,169[A ]| And Lott in$4$ it had shared a Captive fate 991:11,170[A ]| This sad report the patriarch heard with grief 991:11,171[A ]| And while his household armed for$4$ Lott's relief 991:11,172[A ]| He bade the messenger at large declare 991:11,173[A ]| The cause and the proceedings of the war 991:11,174[A ]| Is the vale said he watered with Jordan's flood 991:11,175[A ]| On$4$ those green banks five goodly cities stood 991:11,176[A ]| Luxurious Sodome with strong walls girt round 991:11,177[A ]| Stately Gomorrah with high turrets crownd 991:11,178[A ]| Admah and Leboim both well fortified 991:11,179[A ]| And little Bela placed on$4$ the hill side 991:11,180[A ]| These cities built by$4$ Syrian Colonies 991:11,181[A ]| While as their yet unperfect walls did rise 991:11,182[A ]| For$4$ twelve years served that$6#2$ king but at the length 991:11,183[A ]| When now they were confirmed in$4$ their own strength 991:11,184[A ]| His tribute they denied his fetters broke 991:11,185[A ]| And scorned to$9$ wear a foreign Prince's yoke 991:11,186[A ]| But Chedorlaomer who$6#1$ in$4$ Elam reigned 991:11,187[A ]| With three kings more yet under his command 991:11,188[A ]| Even Arioch Amraphell and Tidall made 991:11,189[A ]| All warlike preparations to$9$ invade 991:11,190[A ]| His late revolted subjects they again 991:11,191[A ]| With no$2$ less care their liberties maintain 991:11,192[A ]| All love of culture ceased some were employed 991:11,193[A ]| To$9$ cast up$5$ trenches others to$9$ provide 991:11,194[A ]| The magazines with victuals and with Arms 991:11,195[A ]| While this is doing daily new alarms 991:11,196[A ]| Spur on$5$ their diligence for$3$ fame bring news 991:11,197[A ]| How Chedorlaomer's conquering host subdues 991:11,198[A ]| The neighbour realms the countries of the vale 991:11,199[A ]| All ready vanquished that$3$ he did assail 991:11,200[A ]| The castles and strong places of mount Seir 991:11,201[A ]| And in$4$ the hilly Countries spread his fear 991:11,202[A ]| Chasing his foes into the Wilderness 991:11,203[A ]| That$3$ his victorious troops proud with success 991:11,204[A ]| And full of threats were marching back again 991:11,205[A ]| Like$4$ to$4$ a furious torrent swelled with rain 991:11,206[A ]| Which$6#1$ in$4$ its violent passage overthrows 991:11,207[A ]| Whatever doth the rapid stream oppose 991:11,208[A ]| And falling down the hills with horrid noise 991:11,209[A ]| All the plantations vines and Corn destroys 991:11,210[A ]| Carrying away the oxen stalls and fruits 991:11,211[A ]| Resisting Banks and trees torn from their roots 991:11,212[A ]| So$3$ came these proud insulting enemies 991:11,213[A ]| Encouraged by$4$ their conquests to$9$ chastise 991:11,214[A ]| The late revolted towns in$4$ whom despair 991:11,215[A ]| Prevailed not yet but with more prudent care 991:11,216[A ]| They endeavoured to$9$ make good their own defence 991:11,217[A ]| Encouraged by$4$ a noble confidence 991:11,218[A ]| That$3$ the enemies' triumphs would renown the field 991:11,219[A ]| And Glory to$4$ their fall or victory yield 991:11,220[A ]| Each of these cities had a several King 991:11,221[A ]| Yet did not they small scattered armies bring 991:11,222[A ]| To$9$ encounter such a foe but all unite 991:11,223[A ]| And in$4$ the conduct of one general fight 991:11,224[A ]| The royal Bera that$6#2$ command obtained 991:11,225[A ]| For$3$ he in$4$ Sodom the chief city reigned 991:11,226[A ]| He then a council of the captains calls 991:11,227[A ]| And there thus spoke no$2$ more within these walls 991:11,228[A ]| Said he 991:11,228@w | let us expect the coming foes 991:11,229@w | But in$4$ the field our fearless lives expose 991:11,230@w | Unto the chance of war if we must die 991:11,231@w | Let us not basely yield the Victory 991:11,232@w | But sell our noble blood at such a rate 991:11,233@w | As shall leave all the blame upon$4$ our fate 991:11,234@w | And we more fame in$4$ death than conquest gain 991:11,235@w | Yet let us not too easily entertain 991:11,236@w | Despair of Victory though we may fall 991:11,237@w | It is not therfore certain that$3$ we shall 991:11,238@w | All worldly things have a vicissitude 991:11,239@w | Who$6#1$ often conquers is at last subdued 991:11,240@w | Allthough their numbers ours exceed yet may 991:11,241@w | Valour as much into our balance lay 991:11,242@w | If motives could great courages excite 991:11,243@w | We for$4$ our country wives and children fight 991:11,244@w | If victory incline to$4$ us, the spoils 991:11,245@w | Of vanquished nations shall reward our toils 991:11,246@w | And all the glories which$6#1$ they have acquired 991:11,247@w | Shall heighten ours who$6#1$ with this thought inspired 991:11,248@w | Can be content to$9$ make a bare defence 991:11,249@w | And will$1$ not strive for$4$ such a recompense 991:11,250@w | Let feeble women, men of wasted age 991:11,251@w | Keep fortresses but let brave youths engage 991:11,252@w | In$4$ open fields and not to$4$ bulwarks owe 991:11,253@w | Their preservation from the invading foe 991:11,254[A ]| This speech their eager valours did inflame 991:11,255[A ]| And the brave youth out of the cities came 991:11,256[A ]| As bees which$6#1$ from the hive send forth new swarms 991:11,257[A ]| So$3$ their thick troops march out with glittering arms 991:11,258[A ]| In$4$ Siddim's slimy vale their camp they made 991:11,259[A ]| Nor there long idle in$4$ the trenches stayed 991:11,260[A ]| For$3$ clouds of rising dust obscured the skies 991:11,261[A ]| And ushered their approaching enemies 991:11,262[A ]| Then all the Soldiers in$4$ Battalia stood 991:11,263[A ]| When with the fury of a violent flood 991:11,264[A ]| The adverse host marched down the shady hills 991:11,265[A ]| And all the plain with horrid clamor fills 991:11,266[A ]| Now the hoarse trumpets give the fatal sign 991:11,267[A ]| All run up$5$ to$4$ the charge both battles join 991:11,268[A ]| On$4$ every side they close with horrid cries 991:11,269[A ]| And grapple rending heaven with loud noise 991:11,270[A ]| Clashing of steel did dying groans confound 991:11,271[A ]| And mangled limbs lay scattered on$4$ the ground 991:11,272[A ]| Falling as thick from men's Redoubled strokes 991:11,273[A ]| As riper acorns from the shaken Oaks 991:11,274[A ]| The air grew dark with steams of reeking blood 991:11,275[A ]| Whose crimson streams discoloured Jordan's flood 991:11,276[A ]| The showers of darts obscured heaven's shining light 991:11,277[A ]| And hid their glorious deeds in$4$ horrid night 991:11,278[A ]| Against the assaulting Syrians' furious shocks 991:11,279[A ]| The Sodomites at first stood like$4$ firm rocks 991:11,280[A ]| Amongst the raging waves but oft assailed 991:11,281[A ]| Numbers above their vain spent strength prevailed 991:11,282[A ]| Breathless and fainting they at last gave ground 991:11,283[A ]| Which$6#1$ great advantage when the Syrian found 991:11,284[A ]| They with more eagerness renewed the fight 991:11,285[A ]| Slaughtered the valiantest, put the rest to$4$ flight 991:11,286[A ]| And being now sole masters of the place 991:11,287[A ]| Did like$4$ faint herds the flying Cowards chase 991:11,288[A ]| The fugitives possessed with fear and shame 991:11,289[A ]| Some to$4$ their towns some to$4$ their trenches came 991:11,290[A ]| Hurried with dread some in$4$ the slimepits fall 991:11,291[A ]| Some in$4$ the rocks their wretched lives conceal 991:11,292[A ]| Some seek the shelter of a well known cave 991:11,293[A ]| Some the thick woods and some the steep hills save 991:11,294[A ]| Some in$4$ the reeds some in$4$ the sedge did hide 991:11,295[A ]| But brave Gomorrah's king in$4$ battle died 991:11,296[A ]| The insulting foes revived with their success 991:11,297[A ]| After the slaughter felt no$2$ weariness 991:11,298[A ]| But marched up$5$ to$4$ the cities where they met 991:11,299[A ]| A weak resistance for$4$ their minds were yet 991:11,300[A ]| Lost in$4$ amazement which$6#1$ their sad souls filled 991:12,000@@@@@| 991:12,001[A ]| Abram returned victorious from the fight 991:12,002[A ]| Had cause to$9$ fear the envious Canaanite 991:12,003[A ]| Might by$4$ disturbing him strive to$9$ suppress 991:12,004[A ]| A stranger's power augmenting with success 991:12,005[A ]| Amidst these doubts in$4$ visions God appeared 991:12,006[A ]| And with such gracious words his servant cheered 991:12,007@a | Abraham 991:12,007[A ]| said he 991:12,007@a | let not thy spirits yield 991:12,008@a | To$4$ fear's intrusions for$3$ I am thy shield 991:12,009@a | Therefore in$4$ me build up$5$ thy confidence 991:12,010@a | And I will$1$ be thy ample recompense 991:12,011@b | Ah! gracious Lord 991:12,011[A ]| the Patriarch then replied 991:12,012@b | What canst thou give to$4$ me who$6#1$ am denied 991:12,013@b | Children of all thy temporal gifts the best 991:12,014@b | Behold thou hast not me with issue blessed 991:12,015@b | Eliezer of Damascus takes the care 991:12,016@b | As Steward of my substance, and my heir 991:12,017@b | Must be a Son born in$4$ my family 991:12,018@b | Since I myself have no$2$ posterity 991:12,019@a | Then 991:12,019[A ]| Said the Lord 991:12,019@a | this man shall not succeed 991:12,020@a | In$4$ thy inheritance I have decreed 991:12,021@a | An heir to$9$ be of thine own bowels bred 991:12,022[A ]| Then God out of the tent his servant led 991:12,023[A ]| Saying 991:12,023@a | to$4$ heaven now advance thine eyes 991:12,024@a | Tell if thou canst those stars which$6#1$ grace the skies 991:12,025@a | For$3$ to$4$ an equal infinite account 991:12,026@a | The number of thy children shall amount 991:12,027[A ]| Abram the promise of the Lord believed 991:12,028[A ]| And God his faith for$4$ righteousness received 991:12,029[A ]| Then further said 991:12,029@a | it was by$4$ my command 991:12,030@a | That$3$ thou wert brought from the Chaldean land 991:12,031@a | And I to$9$ recompense thy place of birth 991:12,032@a | To$4$ thee and thine will$1$ give this fruitful earth 991:12,033@a | For$4$ an inheritance 991:12,033@b | Ah by$4$ what sign 991:12,034[A ]| Said Abram 991:12,034@b | Lord wilt thou confirm it mine 991:12,035@a | A female goat 991:12,035[A ]| said God 991:12,035@a | before me here 991:12,036@a | A ram, and heifer all of the third year 991:12,037@a | A turtle dove and a young pigeon bring 991:12,038@a | And of all these make me an offering 991:12,039[A ]| Abram immediately the Lord obeyed 991:12,040[A ]| Killed and dissected all the beasts, then laid 991:12,041[A ]| Half of each Sacrifice on$4$ either side 991:12,042[A ]| But the two lifeless birds did not divide 991:12,043[A ]| Then down he sat and drove the fowls away 991:12,044[A ]| Which$6#1$ stoops to$9$ make those carcases their prey 991:12,045[A ]| Now day resigned the alternate throne to$4$ night 991:12,046[A ]| Which$6#1$ with black mists extinguished heaven's light 991:12,047[A ]| No$2$ radiant star broke through that$6#2$ thick shade 991:12,048[A ]| Horror did Abram's anxious mind invade 991:12,049[A ]| Till God cast him into a Sleep profound 991:12,050[A ]| Whose charming power his active senses bound 991:12,051[A ]| All vital motion ceased in$4$ this dull state 991:12,052[A ]| And then the Lord declared his future fate 991:12,053@a | Thou 991:12,053[A ]| said he 991:12,053@a | in$4$ a good old age shalt have 991:12,054@a | A quiet death and honourable grave 991:12,055@a | To$4$ thy posterity all that$6#2$ rich soil 991:12,056@a | Which$6#1$ lies between Euphrates and the Nile 991:12,057@a | I for$4$ a sure inheritance will$1$ give 991:12,058@a | But first they shall in$4$ a strange country live 991:12,059@a | And great afflictions for$4$ long time sustain 991:12,060@a | Then will$1$ I bring them to$4$ this place again 991:12,061@a | Their wealth with their late master's spoils increased 991:12,062@a | And judge the Land in$4$ which$6#1$ they were oppressed 991:12,063@a | But before they their own heritage acquire 991:12,064@a | Four hundred years of bondage shall expire 991:12,065@a | Then shall they be restored at those just times 991:12,066@a | When the Amorites have filled their unripe crimes 991:12,067[A ]| Now was all light departed from the skies 991:12,068[A ]| When there appeared amidst the sacrifice 991:12,069[A ]| A fiery lamp which$6#1$ did bright flames disclose 991:12,070[A ]| And clouds of smoke which$6#1$ from a furnace rose 991:12,071[A ]| These unperceived came where the bodies lay 991:12,072[A ]| And only passing through vanished away 991:12,073[A ]| Which$6#1$ Abram as a joyful sign received 991:12,074[A ]| But Sarah at her own misfortune grieved 991:12,075[A ]| No$2$ longer would prevent her husbands heir's 991:12,076[A ]| But she herself his concubine prepares 991:12,077[A ]| Hagar a young AEgyptian her own maid 991:12,078[A ]| Whom kindly she in$4$ his warm bosom laid 991:12,079[A ]| Nor was it long before the damsel knew 991:12,080[A ]| That$3$ in$4$ her pregnant womb the wished fruit grew 991:12,081[A ]| Hence did her pride thence Sarah's Anger rise 991:12,082[A ]| Which$6#1$ the insulting Hagar did despise 991:12,083[A ]| In$4$ vulgar breasts such base thoughts ever dwell 991:12,084[A ]| That$3$ they against their raisers first rebel 991:12,085[A ]| No$2$ obligations can mean spirits bind 991:12,086[A ]| Favours are lost upon$4$ a servile mind 991:12,087[A ]| Sarah afflicted with her handmaid's scorn 991:12,088[A ]| For$3$ slaves' contempt is most uneasily borne 991:12,089[A ]| With harsh reproach to$4$ Abram represents 991:12,090[A ]| The grievous story of her discontents 991:12,091[A ]| Frail is the state of all our earthly joys 991:12,092[A ]| What comforts one hour brings the next destroys 991:12,093[A ]| The trouble of this female strife allays 991:12,094[A ]| That$6#2$ pleasure which$6#1$ the hope of heirs did raise 991:12,095[A ]| A haughty minion and a froward wife 991:12,096[A ]| Disturbing all the quiet of his life 991:12,097@b | Then 991:12,097[A ]| said he 991:12,097@b | thus if Hagar give offence 991:12,098@b | Complain not but suppress her insolence 991:12,099@b | Why am I troubled with those injuries 991:12,100@b | Which$6#1$ thou thyself hast power to$9$ chastise 991:12,101[A ]| Sarah encouraged thus against her slave 991:12,102[A ]| Harsh usage to$4$ the poor AEgyptian gave 991:12,103[A ]| Who$6#1$ fled the terror of her mistress' frown 991:12,104[A ]| And in$4$ a desert wandering up$5$ and down 991:12,105[A ]| Found out a spring by$4$ which$6#1$ she sat and first 991:12,106[A ]| Borrowed a few cool drops to$9$ quench her thirst 991:12,107[A ]| But twice as many from her eyes returned 991:12,108[A ]| The gracious Lord above saw how she mourned 991:12,109[A ]| A winged messenger from the arched skies 991:12,110[A ]| To$4$ the afflicted woman he employs 991:12,111[A ]| Whose joyful errand in$4$ his face did shine 991:12,112[A ]| And made her wavering thoughts to$4$ hope incline 991:12,113[A ]| When thus the Angel spoke 991:12,113@u | Hagar who$6#1$ art 991:12,114@u | Great Sarah's handmaid whence dost thou depart 991:12,115@u | Or whither wilt thou go 991:12,115@v | Alas 991:12,115[A ]| said she 991:12,116@v | I only flie my mistress' cruelty 991:12,117@u | Go back 991:12,117[A ]| the sacred messenger replied 991:12,118@u | And towards thy mistress bend thy stubborn pride 991:12,119@u | I with glad fruit will$1$ comfort thy distress 991:12,120@u | And raise from thee a people numberless 991:12,121@u | Within thy womb thou hast conceived a child 991:12,122@u | Whose disposition shall be rude and wild 991:12,123@u | All men that$6#1$ dwell near him shall be his foes 991:12,124@u | And he again shall every man oppose 991:12,125@u | And prosper so$5#1$ by$4$ his prevailing might 991:12,126@u | That$3$ he shall still dwell in$4$ his brethren's sight 991:12,127@u | Ishmaell shall be the name thy son shall bear 991:12,128@u | Because the Lord did thy affliction hear 991:12,129[A ]| Then rising up$5$ she said 991:12,129@v | thou Lord dost see 991:12,130@v | Such as invoke thee in$4$ calamity 991:12,131@v | Here have my fervent prayers successful been 991:12,132@v | In$4$ woes I looked to$4$ God and I was seen 991:12,133[A ]| Returning then she God's command obeyed 991:12,134[A ]| And Abram was a joyful father made 991:12,135[A ]| When after Ishmaell's birth the glorious sun 991:12,136[A ]| Had thirteen races through the zodiac run 991:12,137[A ]| And now Abram ninety nine birthdays told 991:12,138[A ]| When God again appeared and said 991:12,138@a | behold 991:12,139@a | I am the Lord whose power is unconfined 991:12,140@a | Walk thou before me with a perfect mind 991:12,141@a | And I will$1$ make a covenant with thee 991:12,142@a | Father of many nations shalt thou be 991:12,143@a | To$4$ Abraham which$6#1$ doth imply the same 991:12,144@a | From henceforth thou shalt change thy former name 991:12,145@a | Thy seed shall be abundantly increased 991:12,146@a | And spread their families in$4$ the spicy east 991:12,147@a | Princes thy noble lineage shall renown 991:12,148@a | The sacred Mitre and the Regal Crown 991:12,149@a | The heads of thy great nephews shall adorn 991:12,150@a | And it shall be a blessing to$9$ be borne 991:12,151@a | Out of thy holy stock to$4$ thee will$1$ I assure 991:12,152@a | A lasting covenant which$6#1$ shall endure 991:12,153@a | For$4$ evermore to$4$ thy posterity 991:12,154@a | I will$1$ their God, they shall my people be 991:12,155@a | They in$4$ their land of sojourning shall reign 991:12,156@a | And henceforth in$4$ their flesh my seal retain 991:12,157@a | The seal of circumcision by$4$ which$6#1$ sign 991:12,158@a | I will$1$ distinguish all thy holy line 991:12,159@a | Wherefore now circumcise thou all thy males 991:12,160@a | For$3$ whosoever of this duty fails 991:12,161@a | My wrath with death shall punish his contempt 991:12,162@a | Neither the Child nor stranger is exempt 991:12,163@a | Whoever in$4$ your congregations live 991:12,164@a | Must this perpetual ordinance receive 991:12,165@a | And circumcise his Males at eight days old 991:12,166@a | That$3$ I in$4$ them my covenant may behold 991:12,167@a | And now my promises shall take effect 991:12,168@a | Nor shalt thou long the blessed seed expect 991:12,169@a | Yet not from Hagar's but from Sarah's womb 991:12,170@a | The Children of the covenant shall come 991:12,171@a | And before twelve moons have compassed the earth 991:12,172@a | Her ripe fruit shall receive a happy birth 991:12,173[A ]| These words in$4$ Abraham's heart did laughter raise 991:12,174@b | Ah 991:12,174[A ]| said he 991:12,174@b | shall such joys crown my old days 991:12,175@b | Shall I have sons who$6#1$ count a hundred year 991:12,176@b | And Sarah in$4$ her ninetieth summer bear 991:12,177@b | O God how great a blessing wouldst thou give 991:12,178@b | If Ishmael too might in$4$ thy presence live 991:12,179[A ]| The Lord replied 991:12,179@a | I will$1$ thy Sarah bless 991:12,180@a | And her son shall the promised land possess 991:12,181@a | And mighty nations out of her shall grow 991:12,182@a | Upon$4$ her nephews I will$1$ thrones bestow 991:12,183@a | My covenant establish with her seed 991:12,184@a | In$4$ which$6#1$ I the world's blessing have decreed 991:12,185@a | Yet Ishmaell in$4$ my favour shall have place 991:12,186@a | And I will$1$ multiply his prosperous race 991:12,187@a | His twelve sons shall twelve princes be and reign 991:12,188@a | But Sarah's shall my covenant retain 991:12,189[A ]| After these words from Abraham God withdrew 991:12,190[A ]| Then he the Lord's commandment to$9$ pursue 991:12,191[A ]| With all his males and Ishmaell his Son 991:12,192[A ]| Received the seal of circumcision 991:12,193[A ]| Soon after when at noon the scorching heat 991:12,194[A ]| Made very creature seek a cool retreat 991:12,195[A ]| As Abraham sat in$4$ the tent doore he spied 991:12,196[A ]| Three men which$6#1$ seemed to$9$ stand by$4$ the wayside 991:12,197[A ]| To$4$ these he running forth himself addressed 991:12,198[A ]| And with a courteous invitation pressed 991:12,199[A ]| That$3$ till the sun his fervor had allayed 991:12,200[A ]| They would accept repose beneath that$6#2$ shade 991:12,201@b | Let us 991:12,201[A ]| said he 991:12,201@b | fetch water for$4$ your feet 991:12,202@b | And your faint spirits here revive with meat 991:12,203@b | Only afford your servant this short stay 991:12,204@b | And thus refreshed keep your intended way 991:12,205[A ]| The men assented to$4$ his kind requests 991:12,206[A ]| And then acquainting Sarah with his guests 991:12,207[A ]| While she prepares the meal and kneads the Cakes 991:12,208[A ]| Which$6#1$ moulded she upon$4$ the hot hearth bakes 991:12,209[A ]| In$4$ diligence he to$4$ the next herd goes 991:12,210[A ]| There a young calf out of the fallings chose 991:12,211[A ]| This recommended to$4$ a servant's care 991:12,212[A ]| Who$6#1$ did with speed the tender flesh prepare 991:12,213[A ]| Which$6#1$ to$4$ his guests with milk and butter set 991:12,214[A ]| Himself stood waiting while the strangers eat 991:12,215[A ]| How happy times that$6#2$ primitive age enjoyed 991:12,216[A ]| Nature was not with strange excesses cloyed 991:12,217[A ]| Firm was their health then when their food was plain 991:12,218[A ]| By$4$ surfeits causd diseases did not reign 991:12,219[A ]| Great women were not delicate and nice 991:12,220[A ]| Bred up$5$ in$4$ idleness the nurse of vice 991:12,221[A ]| Luxurious diet made them not unchaste 991:12,222[A ]| Nor did the stock of Living creatures waste 991:12,223[A ]| Queens their own hands to$4$ huswifery applied 991:12,224[A ]| They spun the wool and they the scarlet dyed 991:12,225[A ]| They with the honourable Ladies wrought 991:12,226[A ]| And by$4$ example the mean damsels taught 991:12,227[A ]| They did not flattering courtships then attend 991:12,228[A ]| Nor did the men their hours so$5#1$ vainly spend 991:12,229[A ]| Great ones lived not like$4$ slothful drones as now 991:12,230[A ]| But kings fed flocks and Councillors served the plough 991:12,231[A ]| Thus Sarah though a noble Dame made bread 991:12,232[A ]| Abraham who$6#1$ four great kings had vanquished 991:12,233[A ]| And from their slaughter in$4$ such triumph late 991:12,234[A ]| Returned now on$4$ three travellers did wait 991:12,235[A ]| Not knowing that$3$ they from heaven's high courts employed 991:12,235[A ]| 991:12,236[A ]| In$4$ human shapes did angels' natures hide 991:12,237[A ]| Till after the conclusion of the meal 991:12,238[A ]| The ambassadors their message did reveal 991:12,239[A ]| Assuring Abraham before the year had run 991:12,240[A ]| His circle round Sarah should bear a Son 991:12,241[A ]| She then by$4$ chance within the tent door stood 991:12,242[A ]| And hearing this laughed at the unlikelihood 991:12,243@v | My Lord and I 991:12,243[A ]| said she 991:12,243@v | are old can we 991:12,244@v | After a barren youth hope age should be 991:12,245@v | With children blessed 991:12,245[A ]| they who$6#1$ her thoughts descried 991:12,246[A ]| To$4$ Abraham said 991:12,246@x | why doth thy wife deride 991:12,247@x | Our gracious words as if they were not true 991:12,248@x | Is anything too hard for$4$ God to$9$ do 991:12,249@x | Though she can not our promises believe 991:12,250@x | Yet thou the expected blessing shalt receive 991:12,251@x | I will$1$ revisit thee at the fixed term 991:12,252@x | And by$4$ performances my words confirm 991:12,253[A ]| When Sarah did this reprehension hear 991:12,254[A ]| Her heart was seizd with a cold trembling fear 991:12,255[A ]| She by$4$ denial thought to$9$ evade the offence 991:12,256[A ]| But they convict her guilty conscience 991:12,257[A ]| Then rising up$5$ their steps towards Sodom bent 991:12,258[A ]| And Abraham onwards with the Angels went 991:12,259[A ]| To$4$ whom the Lord did thus his grace reveal 991:12,260@a | Shall I 991:12,260[A ]| said he 991:12,260@a | from Abraham conceal 991:12,261@a | The vengeance which$6#1$ I now on$4$ earth intend 991:12,262@a | Since from him mighty nations shall descend 991:12,263@a | And all the families of the world shall be 991:12,264@a | Hereafter blest in$4$ his posterity 991:12,265@a | I know he will$1$ instruct his sons the way 991:12,266@a | Of godliness commanding them to$9$ obey 991:12,267@a | My righteous precepts and prepare his seed 991:12,268@a | For$4$ those great blessings which$6#1$ I have decreed 991:12,269[A ]| Then further said the Lord 991:12,269@a | lewd Sodom's pride 991:12,270@a | And proud Gomorrah's Lust for$4$ vengeance cried 991:12,271@a | The urgent clamor heard in$4$ heaven's high court 991:12,272@a | I thence descended to$9$ examine the report 991:12,273@a | And if I find their crimes to$4$ ripeness grown 991:12,274@a | I will$1$ by$4$ vengeance make my knowledge known 991:12,275[A ]| This said to$4$ Sodom the angels took their way 991:12,276[A ]| And Abram with the Lord alone did stay 991:12,277[A ]| Whom reverently approaching thus he prayed 991:12,278@b | Lord let there be a just distinction made 991:12,279@b | On$4$ good and bad let not one mischief light 991:12,280@b | Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right 991:12,281@b | If with the rebels thou the faithful slay 991:12,282@b | Who$6#1$ will$1$ thy name adore thy Laws obey 991:12,283@b | Shall pure souls lose the promised reward 991:12,284@b | And piety in$4$ heaven find no$2$ regard 991:12,285@b | Lewd men will$1$ scoff seeing one punishment 991:12,286@b | Involve the guilty and the innocent 991:12,287@b | And will$1$ ascribe to$4$ the blind rule of chance 991:12,288@b | The dire effects of thy just vengeance 991:12,289@b | Rather let sinners the saints' mercies share 991:12,290@b | And for$4$ the godly the lewd city spare 991:12,291@b | If it but fifty righteous ones include 991:12,292@b | For$4$ their sakes save a wicked multitude 991:12,293[A ]| The Lord replied 991:12,293@a | for$4$ fifty I will$1$ save 991:12,294@a | If Sodom fifty righteous persons have 991:12,295[A ]| Then Abraham said 991:12,295@b | let it not cause thine ire 991:12,296@b | Great Lord that$3$ dust and ashes dares aspire 991:12,297@b | After one grant to$9$ make a new request 991:12,298@b | Though five of fifty fail let not the rest 991:12,299@b | For$4$ want of five amongst the wicked fall 991:12,300@b | But rather for$4$ their sakes reprieve them all 991:13,000@@@@@| 991:13,001[A ]| Heaven's flaming coursers now did steep 991:13,002[A ]| Their fiery fetlocks in$4$ the Isberian deep 991:13,003[A ]| When Sodom's children who$6#1$ with day begun 991:13,004[A ]| Their works conclude them with the setting sun 991:13,005[A ]| And to$4$ the circumjacent fields repair 991:13,006[A ]| For$4$ the refreshment of the evening air 991:13,007[A ]| Here the active youths to$4$ several games addressed 991:13,008[A ]| In$4$ manly exercises some contest 991:13,009[A ]| Run wrestle pitch the bar, in$4$ Jordan's streams 991:13,010[A ]| Some swim with art some cool their sweaty limbs 991:13,011[A ]| All several ways to$4$ one conclusion moove 991:13,012[A ]| Tempting or tempted to$4$ lascivious love 991:13,013[A ]| The elder sort sitting without the gate 991:13,014[A ]| Seem gravely to$9$ discourse affairs of weight 991:13,015[A ]| Meanwhile among the sportful youth their eyes 991:13,016[A ]| Are searching to$9$ finde out a lustful prize 991:13,017[A ]| With these sat Lott by$4$ a far different thought 991:13,018[A ]| Into the high way of the city brought 991:13,019[A ]| He searched out guests to$9$ save from Sodom's sins 991:13,020[A ]| For$3$ then great cities had no$2$ common Inns 991:13,021[A ]| And the lewd Sodomites in$4$ the disguise 991:13,022[A ]| Of hospitality used to$9$ surprise 991:13,023[A ]| Passengers who$6#1$ to$4$ their houses trained 991:13,024[A ]| Had their chaste bodies with their foul lust stained 991:13,025[A ]| This pious Lott endeavouring to$9$ prevent 991:13,026[A ]| Unto the city gates each evening went 991:13,027[A ]| And if abroad he any strangers saw 991:13,028[A ]| Did them into his own protection draw 991:13,029[A ]| Thus the two Angels whom the Lord had sent 991:13,030[A ]| To$9$ inflict the lustful city's punishment 991:13,031[A ]| Disguised in$4$ human shapes the good man meets 991:13,032[A ]| And with a courteous invitation greets 991:13,033[A ]| Which$6#1$ they at first as modestly denies 991:13,034[A ]| But vanquished with his importunity 991:13,035[A ]| Entering the courteous house became his guests 991:13,036[A ]| Whom while he plain food and free heart feasts 991:13,037[A ]| A great disturbance at his gates arose 991:13,038[A ]| The furious Sodomites his house enclose 991:13,039[A ]| And with loud clamour his two guests require 991:13,040[A ]| To$9$ quench the rage of their unnatural fire 991:13,041[A ]| He stepping forth employed his eloquence 991:13,042[A ]| To$9$ turn their thoughts from such a foul offence 991:13,043[A ]| But they like$4$ a strong flood whose rapid course 991:13,044[A ]| A little stopped gathers more violent force 991:13,045[A ]| Demand the strangers with more instant rage 991:13,046[A ]| And though he freely offered to$9$ assuage 991:13,047[A ]| Their burning lust, two daughters of his own 991:13,048[A ]| Who$6#1$ virgins never yet had mankind known 991:13,049[A ]| This yielding rather their desire increased 991:13,050[A ]| And with rude threats upon$4$ his house they pressed 991:13,051@x | Dost thou 991:13,051[A ]| said they 991:13,051@x | who$6#1$ only sojournest here 991:13,052@x | Believe we will$1$ thy contradiction bear 991:13,053@x | Darest thou to$9$ make thyself a judging Prince 991:13,054@x | We shall chastise thy saucy insolence 991:13,055@x | And what reproach we only for$4$ thy guests did aim 991:13,056@x | Since thy denial hath increased our flame 991:13,057@x | Thou shalt from us receive both that$6#2$ and more 991:13,058[A ]| Then they all rudely rushed upon$4$ the door 991:13,059[A ]| When as the Angels thought it now was time 991:13,060[A ]| To$9$ use their power against so$5#1$ bold a crime 991:13,061[A ]| Pulling back Lott they struck the others blind 991:13,062[A ]| Who$6#1$ groping long for$4$ what they could not find 991:13,063[A ]| Perceived they were involved in$4$ double night 991:13,064[A ]| And had the want of sense as well as light 991:13,065[A ]| Which$6#1$ to$4$ their eyes where lust so$5#1$ lately burned 991:13,066[A ]| No$2$ more but in$4$ their funeral flames returned 991:13,067[A ]| Lot with astonishment these things beheld 991:13,068[A ]| But terror his first wonder soon expelled 991:13,069[A ]| When the two Angels Sodom's doom declared 991:13,070@x | This place 991:13,070[A ]| said they 991:13,070@x | will$1$ not be longer spared 991:13,071@x | Loud have their sins to$4$ heaven for$4$ vengeance cried 991:13,072@x | And we now are by$4$ the just Lord employed 991:13,073@x | To$9$ manifest his wrath with such a power 991:13,074@x | As shall the wicked and their seats devour 991:13,075@x | Only for$4$ thee the storms of vengeance stay 991:13,076@x | Which$6#1$ until thou art safe God will$1$ delay 991:13,077@x | But hasten then to$9$ leave this impious town 991:13,078@x | That$3$ God's long urged vengeance may fall down 991:13,079@x | Fly quickly with thy daughters and thy wife 991:13,080@x | Thy sons and those to$4$ whom thou wishest Life 991:13,081@x | Nor grieve thy house and all thy wealth to$9$ leave 991:13,082@x | It is enough thou dost thy life receive 991:13,083[A ]| Two bridegrooms for$4$ his daughters Lott designed 991:13,084[A ]| To$4$ whom his friendship was so$5#1$ firme and kind 991:13,085[A ]| That$3$ for$4$ their safeties he did his expose 991:13,086[A ]| Venturing once more amongst his furious foes 991:13,087[A ]| His future sons in$4$ every place he sought 991:13,088[A ]| To$9$ tell them what sad threats the angels brought 991:13,089[A ]| But they God's warning scoffed which$6#1$ unto them 991:13,090[A ]| Seemed only as a melancholy dream 991:13,091[A ]| Then Lott returning full of grief and doubt 991:13,092[A ]| The winged angels earnestly called out 991:13,093@x | Were not God's mercy very great 991:13,093[A ]| said they 991:13,094@x | Thou hadst already perished by$4$ thy delay 991:13,095@x | Too long these wicked walls have thee confined 991:13,096@x | Forsake them now nor cast thine eyes behind 991:13,097@x | These that$6#1$ the warnings of the Lord reject 991:13,098@x | It is just they perish by$4$ their own neglect 991:13,099@x | And it will$1$ be sin in$4$ thee to$9$ mourn for$4$ them 991:13,100@x | Who$6#1$ the late proffered mercy did contemn 991:13,101[A ]| Yet Lot still lingered till day's infant light 991:13,102[A ]| Depose the sickly tapers of the night 991:13,103[A ]| Unwillingly his thoughts to$4$ flight he bends 991:13,104[A ]| Grieved to$9$ forsake his house, his wealth, his friends. 991:13,105[A ]| Such frailty reigns in$4$ every mortal breast 991:13,106[A ]| Outward enjoyments scarcely by$4$ the best 991:13,107[A ]| At God's command are willingly resigned 991:13,108[A ]| So$3$ wealth's temptations captivate the mind 991:13,109[A ]| Men can not from their golden fetters scape 991:13,110[A ]| Till their coy souls endure a holy rape 991:13,111[A ]| Which$6#1$ to$4$ himself the Lord by$4$ violence draws 991:13,112[A ]| Even as they enter hell's extended jaws 991:13,113[A ]| Thus Lott was thought obediently slow 991:13,114[A ]| And had not of himself a power to$9$ go 991:13,115[A ]| Till his, and his wife's hand one angel caught 991:13,116[A ]| The other his daughters out of Sodome brought 991:13,117[A ]| Whom now with gracious violence snatched from death 991:13,118[A ]| The angel thus again admonisheth 991:13,119@u | Fly for$4$ your lives haste from this cursed plain 991:13,120@u | With speed the top of yonder mountain gain 991:13,121@u | Nor this way evermore revert your eye 991:13,122@u | For$3$ in$4$ the moment you look back you die 991:13,123@u | Haste haste you to$4$ the hills vengeance comes fast 991:13,124@u | And only stops her rage till you are passed 991:13,125[A ]| The Lott replied 991:13,125@w | since God hath shown his grace 991:13,126@w | In$4$ drawing me forth of this cursed place 991:13,127@w | Let me not be so$5#1$ long a flight enjoined 991:13,128@w | Lest there I meet death of another kind 991:13,129@w | What will$1$ it boot me swifter plagues to$9$ shun 991:13,130@w | If I into the mouth of famine run 991:13,131@w | That$6#2$ monster's slow jaws will$1$ sure devour 991:13,132@w | As the quick flame from whose more vehement power 991:13,133@w | I strive to$9$ fly wherefore if now the Lord 991:13,134@w | Will$1$ mercy to$4$ his servant's soul afford 991:13,135@w | Let us our Lives in$4$ Little Zoar save 991:13,136@w | And that$6#2$ small town for$4$ us exemption have 991:13,137@w | It is far to$4$ the hill foot and steep the ascent 991:13,138@w | Our strengths will$1$ be in$4$ such a long flight spent 991:13,139@w | And we shall find nor food nor shelter there 991:13,140@w | Perhaps wild beasts our tired limbs will$1$ tear 991:13,141@w | Or should we not their ravenous stomachs cloy 991:13,142@w | Consuming famine might our lives destroy 991:13,143@w | Wherefore o Lord this little city spare 991:13,144[A ]| The angel then replied 991:13,144@u | I grant thy prayer 991:13,145@u | For$4$ thy sake will$1$ that$6#2$ little place reprieve 991:13,146@u | Make haste then to$4$ it that$3$ thy soul may live 991:13,147@u | The time requires thou shouldst increase thy speed 991:13,148@u | Till thou art safe vengeance can not proceed 991:13,149[A ]| These words did Lott's dull lingering sense excite 991:13,150[A ]| And made him hasten his commanded flight 991:13,151[A ]| His daughters wingd with fear outstripped the wind 991:13,152[A ]| Yet his grieved wife came tardily behind 991:13,153[A ]| Ill could her covetous heart such losses brook 991:13,154[A ]| But to$4$ her wealth reverting one sad look 991:13,155[A ]| While she with tears the glittering spires beheld 991:13,156[A ]| A sudden horror all her blood congealed 991:13,157[A ]| Her lips and cheeks their lively colours lost 991:13,158[A ]| Her members hardened with death's chilling frost 991:13,159[A ]| Her hands grew stiff her feet stuck to$4$ the ground 991:13,160[A ]| Striving to$9$ cry her voice no$2$ passage found 991:13,161[A ]| She would have turnd her looks away from thence 991:13,162[A ]| But to$9$ inform us what was her offence 991:13,163[A ]| Her neck stiff as the other parts was grown 991:13,164[A ]| Her disobedience in$4$ her posture shown 991:13,165[A ]| Thus she a lasting Statue of hard Salt 991:13,166[A ]| Became the monument of her own fault 991:13,167[A ]| And God's just punishment of that$6#2$ fond love 991:13,168[A ]| Which$6#1$ she from that$6#2$ lewd place could not remove 991:13,169[A ]| Well suited therefore was her severe doom 991:13,170[A ]| There to$9$ remain her own long lasting tomb 991:13,171[A ]| Which$6#1$ underneath Engaddis high hill placed 991:13,172[A ]| For$4$ many Ages sufferd not time's waste 991:13,173[A ]| But for$4$ example to$4$ her sex remained 991:13,174[A ]| Teaching how curious minds should be restrained 991:13,175[A ]| And kept within the Lord's prescribed bound 991:13,176[A ]| Which$6#1$ none ever passed but swift destruction found 991:13,177[A ]| She longed to$9$ see how Sodom was overthrown 991:13,178[A ]| And looking for$4$ its ruin found her own 991:13,179[A ]| Lott and his daughters into Zoar came 991:13,180[A ]| Just as the sun disclosed his radiant flame 991:13,181[A ]| And then with eyes in$4$ floods of sorrows drowned 991:13,182[A ]| First his unhappy consort's loss he found 991:13,183[A ]| Which$6#1$ so$5#1$ augmented all his former fears 991:13,184[A ]| As stopped the current of his pious tears 991:13,185[A ]| Meanwhile the angels for$4$ his safety sent 991:13,186[A ]| That$6#2$ work performed back into heaven went 991:13,187[A ]| Where divine vengeance had her troops arrayed 991:13,188[A ]| And ready for$4$ quick execution made 991:13,189[A ]| That$6#2$ day she in$4$ a fiery chariot sat 991:13,190[A ]| On$4$ whom the armed elements did wait 991:13,191[A ]| Each in$4$ the head of their own furious bands 991:13,192[A ]| Attending to$9$ receive her dire commands 991:13,193[A ]| In$4$ fire's brigade under red ensigns fought 991:13,194[A ]| Rage, famine, thunder, pestilence and drought 991:13,195[A ]| Whirlwinds, hail, frosts, and tempests did repair 991:13,196[A ]| Unto the standards of the shining air. 991:13,197[A ]| Frogs monsters and fierce inundations went 991:13,198[A ]| With black flags under the third element 991:13,199[A ]| Her russet banners then the earth displayd 991:13,200[A ]| Wild beasts and scorpions filled up$5$ her brigade 991:13,201[A ]| The goddess' scarlet robes in$4$ blood were dyed 991:13,202[A ]| Dreadful portents before her chariot ride 991:13,203[A ]| Pale horror, wild amazement, ghastly fear 991:13,204[A ]| Despair and sorrow her attendants were 991:13,205[A ]| Her weapons flame darts savage teeth keen swords 991:13,206[A ]| Whatever plagues, heaven, earth, or sea affords 991:13,207[A ]| Ruin and desolation followed her 991:13,208[A ]| Pale death like$4$ a triumphant conqueror 991:13,209[A ]| With funeral blazes crownd marched in$4$ the rear 991:13,210[A ]| And fatal shafts did in$4$ her quiver bear 991:13,211[A ]| As her Solicitor at heaven gate 991:13,212[A ]| The cries of the oppressed world did wait 991:13,213[A ]| And when the Angel brought in$4$ their report 991:13,214[A ]| Obtained a full commission from that$6#2$ court 991:13,215[A ]| The word now given flames and sulphurous showers 991:13,216[A ]| Made a fierce onset on$4$ the lustful towers 991:13,217[A ]| Converting suddenly to$4$ dismal night 991:13,218[A ]| The morning which$6#1$ had risen so$5#1$ gay and bright 991:13,219[A ]| Mists filled their eyes terror their minds amazed 991:13,220[A ]| When light worse than that$6#2$ horrid darkness blazed 991:13,221[A ]| By$4$ which$6#1$ they saw their Palaces consume 991:13,222[A ]| In$4$ dreadful splendour mixed with noisome fume 991:13,223[A ]| At first distractedly they run about 991:13,224[A ]| But quenching one a thousand fires broke out 991:13,225[A ]| Heaven's inevitable darts struck down 991:13,226[A ]| The frighted sinners first and then the town 991:13,227[A ]| The stately Palaces and temples burned 991:13,228[A ]| Whatever the flame seized to$4$ flame was turned 991:13,229[A ]| Each turret had a blazing coronet 991:13,230[A ]| Where fiery floods which$6#1$ fell from heaven met 991:13,231[A ]| The flames that$6#1$ did from burning beams aspire 991:13,232[A ]| And raised their unopposed triumphs higher 991:13,233[A ]| Yet were they but like$4$ Sacrifices crownd 991:13,234[A ]| Their fatal splendour burned them to$4$ the ground 991:13,235[A ]| Like$4$ men who$6#1$ honours still accumulate 991:13,236[A ]| Till they consume in$4$ a too glorious state 991:13,237[A ]| Those who$6#1$ before did heaven's threats deride 991:13,238[A ]| To$4$ heaven at last in$4$ vain for$4$ succour cried 991:13,239[A ]| Their loud shrieks louder thunder did confound 991:13,240[A ]| And crackling flames their dying clamours drowned 991:13,241[A ]| Ugly despair in$4$ their last moments rose 991:13,242[A ]| And to$4$ their hopeless souls worse terror shows 991:13,243[A ]| Death might the tortures of those burnings cure 991:13,244[A ]| But those of hell would evermore endure 991:13,245[A ]| There would they wish for$4$ these now dreaded falls 991:13,246[A ]| To$9$ be concealed in$4$ heaps of ruined walls 991:13,247[A ]| But death would vainly be implored to$9$ close 991:13,248[A ]| The endlesse term of their uneased woes 991:13,249[A ]| When they too late would their lewd crimes repent 991:13,250[A ]| Not for$4$ the sin but for$4$ the punishment 991:13,251[A ]| O how much earthly glory in$4$ one hour 991:13,252[A ]| Did this outrageous element devour 991:13,253[A ]| The garden of the world the chequered fields 991:13,254[A ]| The pride of nature to$4$ the conqueror yields 991:13,255[A ]| Gomorrah's gilded roofs fed greedy flames 991:13,256[A ]| Wild fire now burnt up$5$ the unmelting Dames 991:13,257[A ]| Unnaturall heat unnaturall lust did quench 991:13,258[A ]| Perfumed courtiers were choked up$5$ with stench 991:13,259[A ]| This Sea of wrath flowed over all the plain 991:13,260[A ]| Where poor beasts for$4$ their masters' sins were slain 991:13,261[A ]| The fair groves perished burnt up$5$ to$4$ the roots 991:13,262[A ]| The earth itself with all her shining fruits 991:13,263[A ]| From its first native beauty much estranged 991:13,264[A ]| Into a killing noisome lake was changed 991:13,265[A ]| Bounded with slime and noisome poisonous weeds 991:13,266[A ]| Where no$2$ fish lives, nor any foul ever breeds 991:13,267[A ]| If any luckless birds by$4$ chance here fly 991:13,268[A ]| They with the infection of the foul air die 991:13,269[A ]| The waters such unsavory vapours make 991:13,270[A ]| Where Heber's brood surnamed it the dead lake 991:13,271[A ]| O how are men bewitched with sensual love 991:13,272[A ]| Whom neither judgments nor sweet mercies move 991:13,273[A ]| Mercies held out in$4$ sinners' punishments 991:13,274[A ]| By$4$ which$6#1$ the Lord frail mankind's crimes prevents 991:13,275[A ]| And such whose hard hearts love cords will$1$ not draw 991:13,276[A ]| He by$4$ severer justice strives to$9$ awe 991:13,277[A ]| Yet those examples no$2$ inpressions make 991:13,278[A ]| Nor will$1$ the wicked their lewd ways forsake 991:13,279[A ]| These lustful cities to$9$ prevent their crimes 991:13,280[A ]| Had the example of these impious times 991:13,281[A ]| When God incensed with all of human birth 991:13,282[A ]| Washed the bold sins from the stained earth 991:13,283[A ]| In$4$ that$6#2$ great deluge which$6#1$ the whole world drowned 991:13,284[A ]| And with the wicked did their seats confound 991:13,285[A ]| Yet that$6#2$ prevailed not, and themselves now made 991:13,286[A ]| As great examples are as little weighed 991:13,287[A ]| Such ruin as theirs the whole world shall endure 991:13,288[A ]| When earth's dark mists shall heaven's high arch obscure 991:13,289[A ]| And mounting flames set the elements on$4$ fire 991:13,290[A ]| In$4$ which$6#1$ the whole world's glory shall expire 991:13,291[A ]| But how should we have sense of this when Lott 991:13,292[A ]| Who$6#1$ saw the judgement had so$5#1$ soon forgot 991:13,293[A ]| That$3$ he could his unguarded soul resign 991:13,294[A ]| To$4$ the allurements of the sparkling wine 991:13,295[A ]| For$3$ he in$4$ Zoar heard the thunders roar 991:13,296[A ]| Saw the transformed Land and had no$2$ more 991:13,297[A ]| Desire or courage to$9$ abide so$5#1$ near 991:13,298[A ]| But climbed the mountains full of urging fear 991:13,299[A ]| There in$4$ a cave by$4$ night his lodging made 991:13,300[A ]| By$4$ day reposed under some spreading shade. 991:14,000@@@@@| 991:14,001[A ]| Abraham from his own dwelling now no$2$ more 991:14,002[A ]| Beheld that$6#2$ goodly prospect which$6#1$ before 991:14,003[A ]| The lustful cities were with fire destroyed 991:14,004[A ]| He in$4$ his pleasant evening walks enjoyed 991:14,005[A ]| The beauteous plain with fire and brimstone burned 991:14,006[A ]| Into a stinking and dead lake was turned 991:14,007[A ]| Whose noisome waters poisoned everything 991:14,008[A ]| Here no$2$ fish lived nor no$2$ fowl stretched her wing 991:14,009[A ]| If luckless chance did any thither guide 991:14,010[A ]| They soon infected with those vapours died 991:14,011[A ]| All over head was dark and gloomy there 991:14,012[A ]| Unwholesome mists corrupted the whole air 991:14,013[A ]| Hence desolate the neighbouring mountains grew 991:14,014[A ]| Which$6#1$ having lost the pleasure of that$6#2$ view 991:14,015[A ]| And the commodities they had from thence 991:14,016[A ]| No$2$ more afforded life's convenience 991:14,017[A ]| For$3$ the inhabitants corn which$6#1$ the vale 991:14,018[A ]| Before had still supplied begun to$9$ fail 991:14,019[A ]| No$2$ travellers did now those ways frequent 991:14,020[A ]| By$4$ which$6#1$ the Merchants late to$4$ Sodom went 991:14,021[A ]| Now Abraham's habitation rendered thus 991:14,022[A ]| Neither delightful nor commodious 991:14,023[A ]| He into Palestine removed but there 991:14,024[A ]| Again fearing his wife who$6#1$ yet was fair 991:14,025[A ]| And had escaped the injuries of Age 991:14,026[A ]| Lest that$3$ her beauty should his life engage 991:14,027[A ]| He as before did her his sister call 991:14,028[A ]| By$4$ which$6#1$ more hopefully desired of all 991:14,029[A ]| The King himself inflamed with her report 991:14,030[A ]| Commanded that$3$ she should be brought to$4$ court 991:14,031[A ]| Thither she came and there she was admired 991:14,032[A ]| Abimelech the King her beauty fired 991:14,033[A ]| But not a common love within him burned 991:14,034[A ]| The excess of this into a fever turned 991:14,035[A ]| The Queen herselfe and every concubine 991:14,036[A ]| Did at this passion with such envy pine 991:14,037[A ]| That$3$ the disturbance violent sickness bred 991:14,038[A ]| Which$6#1$ suddenly surprised the court with dread 991:14,039[A ]| And the late much expected triumphs so$5#2$ 991:14,040[A ]| Converted to$4$ a face of general woe 991:14,041[A ]| Skillful Physicians tried their art in$4$ vain 991:14,042[A ]| The King still languished with uneased pain 991:14,043[A ]| At length when earthly succours were denied 991:14,044[A ]| He to$4$ the Lord of heaven his prayer applied 991:14,045[A ]| Who$6#1$ always gracious to$4$ poor mortals' cries 991:14,046[A ]| A winged messenger from heaven employs 991:14,047[A ]| Unto the gloomy mansion of dull sleep 991:14,048[A ]| Sleep in$4$ a valley dwelt hemmed round with steep 991:14,049[A ]| And craggy rocks whose overhanging brows 991:14,050[A ]| No$2$ passage for$4$ the sun's bright beams allows 991:14,051[A ]| Perpetually excluding all light's cheerful rays 991:14,052[A ]| In$4$ this dark shade no$2$ lowing cattle graze 991:14,053[A ]| No$2$ barking dogs live there no$2$ bleating flocks 991:14,054[A ]| No$2$ wakeful geese nor day exciting cocks 991:14,055[A ]| All jarring tongues and sounds are banished thence 991:14,056[A ]| But such as bring a dullness on$4$ the sense 991:14,057[A ]| Soft gently running springs and whispering gales 991:14,058[A ]| The humid earth thick vapours still exhales 991:14,059[A ]| That$6#1$ evermore in$4$ misty waves arise 991:14,060[A ]| And interpose between the radiant skies 991:14,061[A ]| And the moist ground which$6#1$ no$2$ glad issues breeds 991:14,062[A ]| But poppy and those stupefying weeds 991:14,063[A ]| From whence the night that$6#2$ drowsy juice collects 991:14,064[A ]| Wherewith she every creature's eyes infects 991:14,065[A ]| One rock there was hung like$4$ a Canopy 991:14,066[A ]| Under whose shelter did the dull power lie 991:14,067[A ]| Upon$4$ a couch with sable coverings spread 991:14,068[A ]| Fantastic dreams hovered about his bed 991:14,069[A ]| To$4$ which$6#1$ the angel coming with his bright 991:14,070[A ]| Appearance for$4$ a while suspended night 991:14,071[A ]| The lazy god thrice for$4$ his rest he calls 991:14,072[A ]| Whose head thrice reared thrice on$4$ his bosom falls 991:14,073[A ]| Which$6#1$ he at last supporting on$4$ his hand 991:14,074[A ]| With half closed lids attends the Lord's commands 991:14,075[A ]| Which$6#1$ thus the glorious messenger declares 991:14,076@u | O sleep thou sweet release of anxious cares 991:14,077@u | Life's best refreshment in$4$ whose sacred reign 991:14,078@u | Mortals forget all grief and torturing pain 991:14,079@u | Restorer of the tired limbs and mind 991:14,080@u | Thy pleasing charms the vexed senses bind 991:14,081@u | Thou calmest the rages of unquenched desires 991:14,082@u | Remembrance from thy presence still retires 991:14,083@u | And gives the agitated thoughts repose 991:14,084@u | From thee man's pleasantest consolation flows 991:14,085@u | Hast with thy leaden mace to$4$ gerars King 991:14,086@u | And stupefaction on$4$ his senses bring 991:14,087@u | Then to$4$ his fancy in$4$ a dream present 991:14,088@u | The unknown cause of his sad languishment 991:14,089@u | Which$6#1$ I assisting clearly will$1$ expound 991:14,090@u | When thy dull charms have his quick senses bound 991:14,091[A ]| Sleep thus commanded lazily did rise 991:14,092[A ]| And in$4$ night's chariot through the gloomy skies 991:14,093[A ]| Ushered by$4$ silence passed along like$4$ death 991:14,094[A ]| Poisoning the air with his contagious breath 991:14,095[A ]| At whose approach all living things fell down 991:14,096[A ]| And did their busy cares in$4$ stillness drown 991:14,097[A ]| Sad Philomell abruptly ceased her songs 991:14,098[A ]| And Sleeping lost the memory of her wrongs 991:14,099[A ]| The larger herd benumbed with stupid night 991:14,100[A ]| No$2$ more could sleep their drowsy limbs upright 991:14,101[A ]| But stretched their heavy members on$4$ the ground 991:14,102[A ]| The silent rivers to$4$ their banks seemed bound 991:14,103[A ]| The new blown flowers shut up$5$ their gaudy leaves 991:14,104[A ]| The violet droops while it night's juice receives 991:14,105[A ]| And like$4$ a bashful virgin hangs her head 991:14,106[A ]| Even the fish rest in$4$ their watery bed 991:14,107[A ]| The birds perched on$4$ the boughs their lids fast close 991:14,108[A ]| And stupefaction into all things flows 991:14,109[A ]| The student can no$2$ more with wakeful eyes 991:14,110[A ]| Pursue his search in$4$ learned mysteries 991:14,111[A ]| Upon$4$ his open book his head declines 991:14,112[A ]| And sleep the vastness of his thought confines 991:14,113[A ]| Giddy with sleep the toiled servants reel 991:14,114[A ]| Industrious matrons drop down at the wheel 991:14,115[A ]| The watchful dogs lie stretched out by$4$ the fire 991:14,116[A ]| And drowsiness gives pause to$4$ all desire. 991:14,117[A ]| Sleep doth the fair one at her glass surprise 991:14,118[A ]| And shuts the eager gazing lover's eyes 991:14,119[A ]| All passions which$6#1$ each creature doth possess 991:14,120[A ]| As he passed by$5$ gave way to$4$ stupidness 991:14,121[A ]| Oblivion did in$4$ the same chariot ride 991:14,122[A ]| All various kinds of dreams marched on$4$ each side 991:14,123[A ]| Who$6#1$ when the first two had performed their charms 991:14,124[A ]| Entered the easeful head in$4$ numerous swarms 991:14,125[A ]| And strange fantastic apparitions made 991:14,126[A ]| Suiting the brains where they reception had 991:14,127[A ]| Deformed sloth and nasty poverty 991:14,128[A ]| Among the crowd of his attendants be 991:14,129[A ]| But in$4$ the rear there marched a handsome pair 991:14,130[A ]| The cure of weariness and the release of care 991:14,131[A ]| Most tardy is the monarch's natural pace 991:14,132[A ]| But several active troops his slow steps chase 991:14,133[A ]| By$4$ swift and powerful commanders brought 991:14,134[A ]| To$9$ dispossess him of the agile thought 991:14,135[A ]| Restless ambition, care, and unfilled love 991:14,136[A ]| In$4$ the first rank of his pursuers move 991:14,137[A ]| Then follow industry and strong desire 991:14,138[A ]| Melting his chains with youth's still active fire 991:14,139[A ]| But now a greater power their force controlled 991:14,140[A ]| And made him long that$3$ night his empire hold 991:14,141[A ]| When he into the sick king's palace went 991:14,142[A ]| Whose fever want of quiet did augment 991:14,143[A ]| Till at the undiscerned approach of sleep 991:14,144[A ]| A dullness did through all his members creep 991:14,145[A ]| And so$3$ his tortured wearied sense benumbs 991:14,146[A ]| In$4$ whose still rest the sacred herald comes 991:14,147[A ]| And thus his heavenly embassy declares 991:14,148@u | The Lord 991:14,148[A ]| said he 991:14,148@u | invoked by$4$ thy prayers 991:14,149@u | Wherein as guiltless thou pourest forth complaints 991:14,150@u | Thee with the cause of thy disease acquaints 991:14,151@u | For$3$ it is thy sin prevails against thy life 991:14,152@u | While lewdly thou retainest another's wife 991:14,153@u | Wherefore thou art but dead for$4$ this offence 991:14,154@w | Ah Lord 991:14,154[A ]| said he 991:14,154@w | shall then my innocence 991:14,155@w | Suffer like$4$ guilt wilt thou with me include 991:14,156@w | In$4$ general ruin a just multitude 991:14,157@w | Did not her husband her his sister name 991:14,158@w | And did not she herself affirm the same 991:14,159@w | With innocent hands and with integrity 991:14,160@w | In$4$ my whole heart thou knowest O Lord that$3$ I 991:14,161@w | This fatal unknown error did commit 991:14,162@w | Nor is her chastity polluted yet 991:14,163[A ]| The Lord replied 991:14,163@a | I know thy heart was free 991:14,164@a | From foul intent it was I restrained thee 991:14,165@a | From such an unknown crime and by$4$ my grace 991:14,166@a | Thou hast been yet withheld from her embrace 991:14,167@a | Wherefore restore the man again his wife 991:14,168@a | And his prayer shall restore thy threatened life 991:14,169@a | For$3$ he is a prophet and his favoured zeal 991:14,170@a | Shall the distempers of thy household heal 991:14,171@a | But if thou still pursue his injury, 991:14,172@a | Quick death shall swallow up$5$ thy family 991:14,173@a | And thou thyself shalt in$4$ their ruin fall 991:14,174@a | Unless thy quick repentance save them all 991:14,175[A ]| With this the king awoke and full of affright 991:14,176[A ]| When now the morn disclosed her purple light 991:14,177[A ]| His terror had surmounted his disease 991:14,178[A ]| Anguish did more his mind than members seize 991:14,179[A ]| When early he his whole court congregates 991:14,180[A ]| And the sad threatenings of the Lord relates 991:14,181[A ]| Which$6#1$ when they had with wild amazement heard 991:14,182[A ]| Their courage failed nor were they less affeared 991:14,183[A ]| Than when poor men in$4$ a besieged town 991:14,184[A ]| See part of their strong rampire tumble down 991:14,185[A ]| And make a breach for$4$ death to$9$ enter in$5$ 991:14,186[A ]| So$3$ did they look on$4$ this destructive sin 991:14,187[A ]| The fatal cause of this they durst not curse 991:14,188[A ]| Fearing to$9$ make their dreaded ruin worse 991:14,189[A ]| Prayer they thought a safer way and ran 991:14,190[A ]| To$9$ crave the assistance of the holy man 991:14,191[A ]| Whom when the King beheld struck with the sense 991:14,192[A ]| Of god's late threats 991:14,192@w | ah 991:14,192[A ]| said he 991:14,192@w | what offence 991:14,193@w | In$4$ me or mine can have provoked thee thus 991:14,194@w | To$9$ bring this desperate ruin upon$4$ us 991:14,195@w | What have I or my guiltless people done 991:14,196@w | To$9$ merit from thee this destruction 991:14,197@w | Our fault proceeded from our ignorance 991:14,198@w | But thou didst wilfully our sins advance 991:14,199@w | And sure though I bear all the affliction 991:14,200@w | Yet thou hast done what ought not to$9$ be done 991:14,201[A ]| Abraham whom justly thus the king accused 991:14,202[A ]| Without reply stood silent and confused 991:14,203[A ]| When still the king urged on$5$ 991:14,203@w | what didst thou see 991:14,204@w | What could thy motive to$4$ this action be 991:14,205[A ]| Abraham who$6#1$ found no$2$ fair excuse to$9$ hide 991:14,206[A ]| A fault so$5#1$ manifest at length replied 991:14,207@b | I do confess though that$6#2$ cause be not just 991:14,208@b | I have offended you by$4$ my distrust 991:14,209@b | I in$4$ my heart had said when I came here 991:14,210@b | Perhaps these men do not the almighty fear 991:14,211@b | And if they know this beauty be my wife 991:14,212@b | To$9$ obtain her they may attempt my life 991:14,213@b | Yet when I said she is my sister I 991:14,214@b | Did but affirm the truth our nuptial tie 991:14,215@b | Is added to$4$ our natural bond for$3$ she 991:14,216@b | And I the children of one father be 991:14,217@b | Though we our births from several mothers took 991:14,218@b | Wherefore when I my native earth forsook 991:14,219@b | Informed by$4$ angels of the Lord's command 991:14,220@b | Which$6#1$ made me wander in$4$ an unknown land 991:14,221@b | I from my beauteous wife implored this grace 991:14,222@b | That$3$ when-so-ere we came to$4$ any place 991:14,223@b | She would the sister's title only own 991:14,224@b | Nor let our marriage be to$4$ strangers known 991:14,225@b | This our concealment though unlucky here 991:14,226@b | Proceeded not from malice but from fear 991:14,227[A ]| The gentle King would urge his shame no$2$ more 991:14,228[A ]| But unpolluted did his wife restore 991:14,229[A ]| Adding a royal gift and gracious words 991:14,230@w | Behold 991:14,230[A ]| said he 991:14,230@w | wherever my land affords 991:14,231@w | Thee best convenience choose thyself a seat 991:14,232@w | There with thy wife and family retreat 991:14,233@w | And amongst us in$4$ perfect freedom live 991:14,234@w | These oxen, sheep, and slaves from me receive 991:14,235[A ]| To$4$ Sarah next the king his speeches bent 991:14,236@w | A thousand silver pieces with thee sent 991:14,237@w | My kindness to$4$ thy brother testifies 991:14,238@w | Let him still be the covering of thy eyes 991:14,239@w | Let not this accident procure thee shame 991:14,240@w | Yet never more endanger thus thy fame 991:14,241@w | For$4$ fear though thou preserve thy chastity 991:14,242@w | Rash grounded censures may dishonour thee 991:14,243@w | Let him for$4$ thee and for$4$ thy maids provide 991:14,244@w | Such modest veils as may from all men hide 991:14,245@w | The flames which$6#1$ may beget unlawful fire 991:14,246@w | It is easier to$9$ prevent than quench desire 991:14,247@w | All would not as I do, return thee pure 991:14,248@w | This just reproof, did their frail fear procure 991:14,249[A ]| Then Abraham prayed to$4$ God with fervent zeal 991:14,250[A ]| And by$4$ his prayer moved the Lord, did heal 991:14,251[A ]| The King with all his concubines whom he 991:14,252[A ]| For$4$ Sarah's sake plagued with sterility 991:14,253[A ]| To$9$ comfort their disgrace now Sarah's womb 991:14,254[A ]| Grew pregnant with that$6#2$ promised fruit in$4$ whom 991:14,255[A ]| A blessing was designed for$4$ the whole earth 991:14,256[A ]| And the ninth moon disclosed the joyful birth 991:14,257[A ]| Isaac they call their Son whose name implies 991:14,258[A ]| Their gladness, him the eighth day circumcise 991:14,259[A ]| Then grew the child fed at his mother's breast 991:14,260[A ]| Whose weaning Celebrated with a feast 991:14,261[A ]| Bred envy in$4$ the proud Egyptian's boy 991:14,262[A ]| Whom Sarah found scoffing their solemn joy 991:14,263[A ]| Nor a just anger at these flouts refrained 991:14,264[A ]| But to$4$ her Lord with bitterness complained 991:14,265@v | This Slave 991:14,265[A ]| said she 991:14,265@v | in$4$ her own insolent pride 991:14,266@v | Hath bred her brat who$6#1$ did my son deride 991:14,267@v | Wherefore no$2$ more will$1$ I sustain their scorn 991:14,268@v | Nor shall a Slave's proud Son so$5#1$ basely born 991:14,269@v | A share of Isaac's heritage expect 991:14,270@v | Wherefore this Hagar and her son eject 991:14,271[A ]| Much did these words poor Abraham's thoughts disturb 991:14,272[A ]| Hardly could he a stepdame's fury curb 991:14,273[A ]| Nor bring his heart to$9$ yield that$3$ his own child 991:14,274[A ]| Should for$4$ one scoff be evermore exiled 991:14,275[A ]| Grieved both at Ishmael's scorn and Sarah's spite 991:14,276[A ]| Feeding his sorrow in$4$ the silent night 991:14,277[A ]| The Lord descending from the firmament 991:14,278[A ]| Thus said 991:14,278@a | no$2$ more pursue thy discontent 991:14,279@a | Nor cherish the disturbance of thy Life 991:14,280@a | But yield to$4$ the harsh instance of thy wife 991:14,281@a | Nor let it more afflict thee to$9$ fullfil 991:14,282@a | The jealous bent of her obdurate will$0$ 991:14,283@a | Consent to$9$ cast thy son and servant out 991:14,284@a | Nor vex thy soul with a perplexing doubt 991:14,285@a | What evil chance may unto them betide 991:14,286@a | For$3$ I their future fortunes will$1$ provide 991:14,287@a | Direct their wandering steps to$4$ a safe seat 991:14,288@a | Where I will$1$ make his glorious issue great 991:14,289@a | Twelve Princes shall spring from his fruitful loins 991:14,290@a | And prospering in$4$ all their brave designs 991:14,291@a | Shall their strong enemies before them chase 991:14,292@a | And conquer for$4$ themselves a pleasant place 991:14,293@a | Wherein they shall in$4$ power and glory reign 991:14,294@a | And still invincibly their realm maintain 991:14,295@a | Fear not to$9$ expose them then whom for$4$ thy sake 991:14,296@a | I henceforth into my protection take 991:14,297@a | But though this son my outward blessings share 991:14,298@a | The other to$4$ my promises is heir 991:14,299@a | It is in$4$ Isaac that$3$ I have decreed 991:14,300@a | A glorious name unto thy holy seed 991:15,000@@@@@| 991:15,001[A ]| Now Abraham great in$4$ wealth and power became 991:15,002[A ]| His foretold glories were divulged by$4$ fame 991:15,003[A ]| Who$6#1$ the report from Isaac's nurses caught 991:15,004[A ]| And to$4$ the courts of neighbouring princes brought 991:15,005[A ]| These prophecies in$4$ Gerar's palace known 991:15,006[A ]| The King solicitous to$9$ assure his throne 991:15,007[A ]| Visits the blessed Patriarch and contracts 991:15,008[A ]| A league with him, that$3$ not by$4$ hostile acts 991:15,009[A ]| Nor secret practices each should invade 991:15,010[A ]| The other's right, and that$3$ this covenant made 991:15,011[A ]| By$4$ them, their next successors should include 991:15,012[A ]| And to$4$ their generations be renewed 991:15,013[A ]| Beersheba hence received its name for$3$ there 991:15,014[A ]| They did with solemn rites this covenant swear 991:15,015[A ]| Near this Abram planted a grove, and paid 991:15,016[A ]| His vows to$4$ God beneath that$6#2$ sacred shade 991:15,017[A ]| Though while the saints lived in$4$ their pilgrimage 991:15,018[A ]| No$2$ stately temples in$4$ that$6#2$ infant age 991:15,019[A ]| Were for$4$ the worship of the great God raised 991:15,020[A ]| But men in$4$ woods and fields their maker praised 991:15,021[A ]| Yet near whatever spring or shady oak 991:15,022[A ]| Devout assemblies did the Lord invoke 991:15,023[A ]| That$6#2$ place holy esteem from thence obtained 991:15,024[A ]| And was no$2$ more with common use profaned 991:15,025[A ]| But what first decently was set apart 991:15,026[A ]| Men after to$4$ an idol did convert 991:15,027[A ]| And did the Almighty's monarchy deride 991:15,028[A ]| Making peculiar deities preside 991:15,029[A ]| Over every lake and spring and greater flood 991:15,030[A ]| The valleys, mountains, and each shady wood, 991:15,031[A ]| Poor weak and silly mortals who$6#1$ conceived 991:15,032[A ]| Too foolishly of God while they believed 991:15,033[A ]| That$3$ this divinity could be confined 991:15,034[A ]| To$4$ any of those places they assigned 991:15,035[A ]| When even heaven which$6#1$ doth this globe embrace 991:15,036[A ]| Can not hold him who$6#1$ yet fills every place 991:15,037[A ]| Still present in$4$ the earth, the sea, the air, 991:15,038[A ]| Not bounded, nor excluded anywhere. 991:15,039[A ]| He in$4$ Kings' Courts, and great assemblies dwells 991:15,040[A ]| In$4$ private houses, and obscured Cells 991:15,041[A ]| His presence over the whole world extends 991:15,042[A ]| And he to$4$ every single heart descends 991:15,043[A ]| Before designs to$4$ their ripe birth are brought 991:15,044[A ]| He is at their first conceptions in$4$ the thought 991:15,045[A ]| And when the black deeds are brought forth, not night 991:15,046[A ]| Nor darkness can obscure them from his sight 991:15,047[A ]| Yet though he all men's inclinations knows 991:15,048[A ]| He often makes experiment of those 991:15,049[A ]| Who$6#1$ boast his name, that$3$ when their weak holds fail 991:15,050[A ]| They finding mortals' best perfections frail 991:15,051[A ]| More humbly may to$4$ the Almighty bend 991:15,052[A ]| And upon$4$ his, not their own strength depend 991:15,053[A ]| Sometimes firm faiths are tried which$6#1$ else concealed 991:15,054[A ]| Impious bosoms could not be revealed 991:15,055[A ]| To$4$ the just glory of triumphant grace 991:15,056[A ]| And the example of the future race 991:15,057[A ]| And such a pattern is presented here 991:15,058[A ]| While God again to$4$ Abraham did appear 991:15,059[A ]| Saying 991:15,059@a | take now Isaac thine only Son 991:15,060@a | And offer him for$4$ a burnt oblation 991:15,061@a | Upon$4$ that$6#2$ mountain I shall lead thee to$5$ 991:15,062[A ]| This said, the amazed Patriarch senseless grew 991:15,063[A ]| And trembling horror did his breast invade 991:15,064[A ]| Yet without scruple he the Lord obeyed 991:15,065[A ]| For$3$ faith soon recollecting his wild sense 991:15,066[A ]| Prevailed and bred a prompt obedience 991:15,067[A ]| No$2$ sleep that$6#2$ night his careful eyes did close 991:15,068[A ]| But early he with the next morning rose 991:15,069[A ]| And calme looks did his troubled thoughts disguise 991:15,070[A ]| While he preparing for$4$ the sacrifice 991:15,071[A ]| With knives and cloven sticks his ass did lade 991:15,072[A ]| And all provision for$4$ the voyage made 991:15,073[A ]| Taking two of his servants and his son 991:15,074[A ]| His journey toward Moriah's mount begun 991:15,075[A ]| Two days they travelled nor in$4$ all that$6#2$ space 991:15,076[A ]| Could he discover yet the fatal place 991:15,077[A ]| But when as the third morning had dissolved 991:15,078[A ]| Those gloomy mists which$6#1$ the whole earth involved 991:15,079[A ]| As she in$4$ the east her purple curtains drew 991:15,080[A ]| Whence light broke forth and unto mortals' view 991:15,081[A ]| Disclosed those regions which$6#1$ the expulsed night 991:15,082[A ]| Before had hidden from their blinded sight 991:15,083[A ]| Abraham still marching on$5$ with heedful eyes 991:15,084[A ]| Afar off the appointed place descries 991:15,085[A ]| They at the bottom of the mountain stayed 991:15,086[A ]| And upon$4$ Isaac the cleft fuel laid 991:15,087[A ]| The knife and fire in$4$ his own hands he bore 991:15,088[A ]| And to$4$ his young men said 991:15,088@b | I shall no$2$ more 991:15,089@b | Employ your service here what is to$9$ be done 991:15,090@b | Must be alone by$4$ me and by$4$ my son 991:15,091@b | Performed wherefore while he and I ascend 991:15,092@b | To$9$ worship on$4$ that$6#2$ hill do you attend 991:15,093@b | And with the ass in$4$ this low place remain 991:15,094@b | Till having finished we come down again 991:15,095[A ]| Much mystery in$4$ this whole story lies 991:15,096[A ]| Each part some doctrine or some type implies 991:15,097[A ]| Abraham here represents the devout mind 991:15,098[A ]| And the two servants which$6#1$ he left behind 991:15,099[A ]| Earthly affections human reason be 991:15,100[A ]| These when souls climb the hill of piety 991:15,101[A ]| By$4$ faith led up$5$ to$4$ God, must even so$5#2$ 991:15,102[A ]| As they, be left with the dull ass below 991:15,103[A ]| For$4$ wordly cares retard her nimble flight 991:15,104[A ]| And fleshly reasons blind her piercing sight 991:15,105[A ]| While they converse with earth and earthly things 991:15,106[A ]| And hang like$4$ clogs upon$4$ her soaring wings 991:15,107[A ]| Which$6#1$ once shook off, the soul at liberty 991:15,108[A ]| Is swiftly carried up$5$ to$4$ God on$4$ high 991:15,109[A ]| And there upon$4$ his holy Altar pays 991:15,110[A ]| Her pure oblations of spiritual praise 991:15,111[A ]| Now Abraham and his son climb the ascent 991:15,112[A ]| Isaac not knowing to$4$ what end he went 991:15,113@w | My father 991:15,113[A ]| said he to$4$ his thoughtful sire 991:15,114@w | I see the ready fuel knives and fire 991:15,115@w | But where is the lamb for$4$ sacrifice decreed 991:15,116@w | Whose bleeding flesh the holy flames must feed 991:15,117[A ]| The Patriarch's faith this mighty shock did stand 991:15,118[A ]| He heard unmoved this innocent demand 991:15,119[A ]| Nor at the question by$4$ his melting tears 991:15,120[A ]| Betrayed his own or raised up$5$ his son's fears 991:15,121[A ]| But with a firm untroubled look replied 991:15,122@b | My Son God will$1$ his offering provide 991:15,123[A ]| Now to$4$ the mountain's top arrived they there 991:15,124[A ]| An Altar of erected turf prepare 991:15,125[A ]| The wood in$4$ order placede all ready made 991:15,126[A ]| Abraham his son bound on$4$ the Altar laid 991:15,127[A ]| And in$4$ obedience to$4$ the Lord's command 991:15,128[A ]| With an unwavering faith stretched forth his hand 991:15,129[A ]| Ready to$9$ strike, armed with the fatal knife 991:15,130[A ]| Without remorse, threatening so$5#1$ dear a life 991:15,131[A ]| O how religion changes styles of things 991:15,132[A ]| Making the same act diverse as it springs 991:15,133[A ]| From man's own nature or obedience 991:15,134[A ]| To$4$ God's command to$9$ murder innocence 991:15,135[A ]| To$9$ have an unrelenting father kill 991:15,136[A ]| His only son guiltless of every ill 991:15,137[A ]| What barbarous cruelty would this have been 991:15,138[A ]| If God's command had not from impious sin 991:15,139[A ]| Changed it into the highest piety 991:15,140[A ]| Which$6#1$ can in$4$ any mortal bosom be 991:15,141[A ]| For$3$ not to$9$ quit that$6#2$ natural tenderness 991:15,142[A ]| Which$6#1$ the kind hearts of fondest sires profess 991:15,143[A ]| But whilst it is in$4$ fullest strength and height 991:15,144[A ]| To$9$ conquer it with faith's prevailing might 991:15,145[A ]| And where the precepts of the Lord enjoin 991:15,146[A ]| The dearest pledges of our love resign 991:15,147[A ]| Is such a pattern of victorious grace 991:15,148[A ]| As scarce can find belief in$4$ mortal race 991:15,149[A ]| Yet those whose spirits, fleshly bounds transcend 991:15,150[A ]| Yield all, while they on$4$ God alone depend 991:15,151[A ]| Nor lose by$4$ what to$4$ him they freely give 991:15,152[A ]| But with advantage that$6#2$ or better things receive 991:15,153[A ]| Now Abraham's faith sufficiently tried 991:15,154[A ]| To$4$ him an angel out of heaven cried 991:15,155[A ]| To$9$ stop the execution at whose call 991:15,156[A ]| He stayed his heaved up$5$ hand ready to$9$ fall 991:15,157[A ]| Upon$4$ the destined innocent sacrifice 991:15,158[A ]| And as he listned to$4$ the angel's voice 991:15,159[A ]| These glad words pierced his ears, 991:15,159@a | Abraham forbear 991:15,160@a | To$9$ hurt the child, In$4$ that$3$ thou didst not spare 991:15,161@a | Thine only son whom I required of thee 991:15,162@a | But freely hast resigned him up$5$ to$4$ me 991:15,163@a | I know by$4$ this that$6#1$ thou dost fear the Lord 991:15,164@a | This act thy faith shall to$4$ the world record 991:15,165[A ]| The joyful father then his son unbound 991:15,166[A ]| And as he cast his eyes about they found 991:15,167[A ]| A thicket where a ram by$4$ his horns was caught 991:15,168[A ]| Which$6#1$ disentangled he to$4$ the Altar brought 991:15,169[A ]| And there in$4$ stead of his late destined son 991:15,170[A ]| Offered it for$4$ a burnt oblation 991:15,171[A ]| In$4$ memory of that$6#2$ did here befall 991:15,172[A ]| The place he did, Jehovah jireh call 991:15,173[A ]| Which$6#1$ name doth signify upon$4$ God's hill 991:15,174[A ]| It shall be seen and time did this fullfil 991:15,175[A ]| For$3$ then the Patriarch ignorantly foretold 991:15,176[A ]| What future glory should there behold 991:15,177[A ]| There Solomon's fair temple stood and there 991:15,178[A ]| God oft appeared invokd with zealous prayer 991:15,179[A ]| There Israill's pious congregations joined 991:15,180[A ]| The Jewish Church in$4$ her full splendour shined 991:15,181[A ]| There princes sacred fires with whole herds fed 991:15,182[A ]| Thither poor men their single offerings led 991:15,183[A ]| And while the sacrifice in$4$ flames consumed 991:15,184[A ]| The darkened air with incense was perfumed 991:15,185[A ]| This one of the world's wonders held 991:15,186[A ]| All glorious structures in$4$ that$6#2$ age excelled 991:15,187[A ]| But when forgetful Israell more relied 991:15,188[A ]| Upon$4$ the place than him who$6#1$ sanctified 991:15,189[A ]| That$6#2$ sacred seat and coming thither stained 991:15,190[A ]| With their foul sins the house of God profaned 991:15,191[A ]| He left the place he did inhabit late 991:15,192[A ]| And did the dwelling people offerings hate 991:15,193[A ]| Against them sent the Babilonish powers 991:15,194[A ]| Who$6#1$ without mercy razed fair Zion's Towers 991:15,195[A ]| And in$4$ the city licensed furious rage 991:15,196[A ]| Which$6#1$ spared no$2$ sort of men no$2$ sex or age 991:15,197[A ]| Down every channel ran a mixed flood 991:15,198[A ]| With streams of Royal and of common blood 991:15,199[A ]| The princes were with vulgar prisoners chained 991:15,200[A ]| Lords with their slaves one servitude sustained 991:15,201[A ]| Chaste virgins, matrons, priests escaped not free 991:15,202[A ]| Without regard of weakness sanctity 991:15,203[A ]| High blood or holy orders some were led 991:15,204[A ]| In$4$ captive troops some at the Altar bled 991:15,205[A ]| And priests the sacrifices there became 991:15,206[A ]| While the whole temple blazed with wasting flame 991:15,207[A ]| That$6#2$ glorious fabric with such reverence reared 991:15,208[A ]| That$3$ no$2$ noise was in$4$ the whole building heard 991:15,209[A ]| Was now with horrid fragors overturnd 991:15,210[A ]| In$4$ crackling fires the cedar roofs were burned 991:15,211[A ]| The ornaments became the victors' prey 991:15,212[A ]| Who$6#1$ carried all the precious things away 991:15,213[A ]| Spoiling God's house, their idols to$9$ adorn 991:15,214[A ]| Scourging his people, with their heathenish scorn 991:15,215[A ]| Level with earth thus was the temple laid 991:15,216[A ]| Jerusalem a heap of ruin made 991:15,217[A ]| The holy people in$4$ a barbarous land 991:15,218[A ]| Long time continued in$4$ a captive band 991:15,219[A ]| Till God at last moved with their penitence 991:15,220[A ]| In$4$ mercy brought them back again from thence 991:15,221[A ]| And they anew reedified the place 991:15,222[A ]| Assisted by$4$ the Persian monarch's grace 991:15,223[A ]| Who$6#1$ did again the holy things restore 991:15,224[A ]| But that$6#2$ ground where the temple stood before 991:15,225[A ]| Unbuilt without the new walls did remain 991:15,226[A ]| That$3$ the pure lamb of God might there be slain 991:15,227[A ]| Where it so$5#1$ long before was typified 991:15,228[A ]| By$4$ all those beasts which$6#1$ on$4$ his altar died 991:15,229[A ]| And by$4$ young Isaac's immolation 991:15,230[A ]| For$3$ Abraham thus resigning his dear son 991:15,231[A ]| His only heir to$4$ death presents that$6#2$ love 991:15,232[A ]| Which$6#1$ did the great eternal father move 991:15,233[A ]| To$9$ give his only son for$4$ lost mankind 991:15,234[A ]| That$3$ by$4$ his death they might redemption find 991:15,235[A ]| As Isaac the designed offering 991:15,236[A ]| The wood which$6#1$ should confirm himself did bring 991:15,237[A ]| Up$5$ to$4$ the place appointed for$4$ his death 991:15,238[A ]| So$3$ Christ was after led sweating beneath 991:15,239[A ]| The burden of that$6#2$ cross on$4$ which$6#1$ he died 991:15,240[A ]| And God's severest justice satisfied 991:15,241[A ]| Then on$4$ this mountain of the Lord was seen 991:15,242[A ]| That$6#2$ spectacle which$6#1$ hath in$4$ all times been 991:15,243[A ]| Beheld with faith's prophetic joyful eyes 991:15,244[A ]| Man's guilt purged by$4$ this guiltless sacrifice 991:15,245[A ]| From whose pierced side streamed forth a plenteous flood 991:15,246[A ]| Of cleansing waters and all healing blood 991:15,247[A ]| Here dropped that$6#2$ balm which$6#1$ doth the passions cure 991:15,248[A ]| Here sprung that$6#2$ fountain which$6#1$ makes sinners pure 991:15,249[A ]| Here forfeit mankind's desperate debt was paid 991:15,250[A ]| Here was the treasure of God's love displayed 991:15,251[A ]| Here death's large power by$4$ dying vanquished 991:15,252[A ]| Here hungry souls with heavenly manna fed 991:15,253[A ]| Whoever since have sick or weary been 991:15,254[A ]| Here have their cure here their refreshment seen 991:15,255[A ]| In$4$ all extremities who$6#1$ looks up$5$ here 991:15,256[A ]| Forever quits his sorrow and his fear 991:15,257[A ]| By$4$ their stripes only mortal wounds are healed 991:15,258[A ]| In$4$ this rock is the spring of life revealed 991:15,259[A ]| The ceremonies of the law which$6#1$ led 991:15,260[A ]| All to$4$ this end were here consummated 991:15,261[A ]| Nor needed the almighty now restore 991:15,262[A ]| That$6#2$ glorious temple which$6#1$ stood here before 991:15,263[A ]| Since this perfection to$4$ mankind befell 991:15,264[A ]| The immortal God in$4$ our frail flesh doth dwell 991:15,265[A ]| Nor doth in$4$ temples built with hands reside 991:15,266[A ]| But in$4$ the hearts himself hath sanctified 991:15,267[A ]| Nor to$4$ one corner of the earth confines 991:15,268[A ]| His glory, but in$4$ all the churches shines 991:15,269[A ]| Delighting more amongst them to$9$ behold 991:15,270[A ]| Pure worship than that$6#2$ splendour which$6#1$ of old 991:15,271[A ]| His temples did adorn and signified 991:15,272[A ]| The inward glory of the heavenly bride 991:15,273[A ]| Yet the first fathers had but a dim sight 991:15,274[A ]| Of what we now enjoy in$4$ a clear light 991:15,275[A ]| But in$4$ this hope they did their faiths erect 991:15,276[A ]| And the revealing of the Lord expect 991:15,277[A ]| While he their souls with promised blessings fed 991:15,278[A ]| Their lives with pious confidence they led 991:15,279[A ]| Rejoicing in$4$ the Lord now when the ram 991:15,280[A ]| Was sacrificed, again to$4$ Abraham 991:15,281[A ]| An angel out of heaven appeared and said 991:15,282@u | Because thou hast no$2$ difficulty made 991:15,283@u | When God required to$9$ yield him up$5$, thy son 991:15,284@u | Thine only Son for$4$ this that$6#1$ thou hast done 991:15,285@u | I by$4$ myself saith God have sworn that$3$ I 991:15,286@u | Thy Blessings and thy seed will$1$ multiply 991:15,287@u | Dispensing Blessings I will$1$ still bless thee 991:15,288@u | Thy enlarged seed as numberless shall be 991:15,289@u | As stars in$4$ heaven or sands on$4$ the sea shore 991:15,290@u | Nor shall their spreading families be more 991:15,291@u | In$4$ numbers than in$4$ glorious power increased 991:15,292@u | By$4$ them their enemies' gates shall be possessed 991:15,293@u | Because of thy obedience in$4$ thy seed 991:15,294@u | An universal blessing is decreed 991:15,295@u | To$4$ all the nations which$6#1$ on$4$ earth survive 991:15,296@u | From thee shall they their happiness derive 991:15,297[A ]| Thus his devotions ended Abraham then 991:15,298[A ]| Returned again with Isaac to$4$ his men 991:15,299[A ]| And travelled home unto Beersheba where 991:15,300[A ]| His wife his dwelling and his household were 991:16,000@@@@@| 991:16,001[A ]| Now to$4$ the Patriarch age death's summons gave 991:16,002[A ]| Who$6#1$ when he found his life approach the grave 991:16,003[A ]| Recounting how the Lord had blessed his cares 991:16,004[A ]| And made him prosperous in$4$ all affairs 991:16,005[A ]| How he in$4$ wealth and plenty did abound 991:16,006[A ]| That$3$ no$2$ room now for$4$ more desire was found 991:16,007[A ]| He piously his latest thoughts employed 991:16,008[A ]| Successors for$4$ his family to$9$ provide 991:16,009[A ]| Who$6#1$ worthily might all his wealth possess 991:16,010[A ]| And since that$3$ both the parents' godliness 991:16,011[A ]| To$4$ children's education is required 991:16,012[A ]| He for$4$ his son a virtuous wife desired 991:16,013[A ]| And lest his unexperienced youth should be 991:16,014[A ]| Betrayed by$4$ fond love to$4$ idolatry 991:16,015[A ]| The father's harsh prerogative doth use 991:16,016[A ]| Nor leaves it in$4$ his young son's power to$9$ choose 991:16,017[A ]| But on$4$ a faithful servant wife and stayed 991:16,018[A ]| This weighty trust with two strict cautions laid 991:16,019[A ]| First that$3$ he should not link the holy seed 991:16,020[A ]| To$4$ any of the Canaanitish breed 991:16,021[A ]| And next he binds him with a strict command 991:16,022[A ]| That$3$ Isaac go not from the promised land 991:16,023[A ]| Back to$4$ his father's native soil, though he 991:16,024[A ]| Must only out of his own family 991:16,025[A ]| Elect his wife to$4$ this the servant swore 991:16,026[A ]| Cleared in$4$ some scruples he had made before 991:16,027@w | For$3$ 991:16,027[A ]| said he 991:16,027@w | if the woman should deny 991:16,028@w | To$9$ come how shall I then scape perjury 991:16,029[A ]| To$4$ which$6#1$ the faithful Patriarch said that$6#2$ 991:16,029@b | God 991:16,030@b | Which$6#1$ took me from my father's just abode 991:16,031@b | From all my kindred and hath sworn this land 991:16,032@b | Shall be given to$4$ my offspring, will$1$ command 991:16,033@b | His angel to$9$ prepare the way for$4$ thee 991:16,034@b | And make the virgin willing, but if she 991:16,035@b | Refuse to$9$ come thou from my oath art clear 991:16,036@b | Strive only not to$9$ match my Isaac here 991:16,037[A ]| Instructed thus the prudent servant goes 991:16,038[A ]| His equipage doth handsomely dispose 991:16,039[A ]| Ten camels takes laden with precious things 991:16,040[A ]| Which$6#1$ he to$4$ Aram Mahor's city brings 991:16,041[A ]| Without the Gates he saw a fountain where 991:16,042[A ]| The city maids each evening came, and there 991:16,043[A ]| Making his camels kneel, while as he stayed 991:16,044[A ]| For$4$ their approach thus to$4$ Jehovah prayed 991:16,045@w | O thou the God whom Abraham doth adore 991:16,046@w | Grant him the mercy I this day implore 991:16,047@w | It is evening now and the declining sun 991:16,048@w | Almost unto his journey's end is run 991:16,049@w | Behold I at this fountain stand and here 991:16,050@w | Soon will$1$ the virgins of the town appear 991:16,051@w | If thou thy favour to$4$ my Lord incline 991:16,052@w | Grant that$3$ the damsel whom thou shalt design 991:16,053@w | For$4$ Isaac's wife, when I to$9$ quench my thirst 991:16,054@w | Shall water crave, may say to$4$ me drink first 991:16,055@w | Thyself, then let thy beasts their drought allay, 991:16,056@w | And I may know her by$4$ this courteous way 991:16,057[A ]| Whilst yet he spoke behold Rebekah came 991:16,058[A ]| Bethuel her sire's, Milcah her mother's name, 991:16,059[A ]| Pure were her thoughts, and beautiful her face, 991:16,060[A ]| Her body never defiled with man's embrace 991:16,061[A ]| Her chaster mind upon$4$ her work intent 991:16,062[A ]| She with a pitcher on$4$ her shoulder went 991:16,063[A ]| The honest labours of those innocent times 991:16,064[A ]| Kept honest women from adulterous crimes 991:16,065[A ]| The pride and idleness of our loose dames 991:16,066[A ]| Are the lewd parents of these lustful flames 991:06,067[A ]| Which$6#1$ fire the world and make them blazing stars 991:06,068[A ]| Engendering murders hate and civil wars 991:16,069[A ]| While to$4$ the well her journey she pursues 991:16,070[A ]| Her fair form then he with much wonder views 991:16,071[A ]| As she returning her full pitcher brought 991:16,072[A ]| He meets her and implores a little draught 991:16,073@v | Drink sir 991:16,073[A ]| said she 991:16,073@v | and when you have enough 991:16,074@v | I will$1$ give your beasts, 991:16,074[A ]| with that$6#2$ into the trough 991:16,075[A ]| She poured the water she had drawn, and made 991:16,076[A ]| Haste to$9$ fetch more, till all their thirst allayed 991:16,077[A ]| The servant wondering at this providence 991:16,078[A ]| Could scarce recover his amazed sense 991:16,079[A ]| In$4$ joyful admiration lost to$9$ see 991:16,080[A ]| Such beauty joined with such humility 991:16,081[A ]| Such quick and just success, to$4$ his late prayer 991:16,082[A ]| A damsel courteous, diligent, and fair 991:16,083@w | O 991:16,083[A ]| said he to$4$ himself, 991:16,083@w | if this might prove 991:16,084@w | My Master's wife, how worthy of his love, 991:16,085@w | Would such a partner be, O what a pain 991:16,086@w | My Soul doth labour with, till God explain 991:16,087@w | Whether my voyage in$4$ this maid be blessed 991:16,088[A ]| Then to$4$ the virgin he himself addressed 991:16,089@w | Fair one 991:16,089[A ]| said he, 991:16,089@w | tell me what happy bed 991:16,090@w | Hath such a blessing to$4$ her parents bred 991:16,091@v | Bethuel my sire Nahor my Grandsire are 991:16,092[A ]| Said she, 991:16,092@v | and Milcah me to$4$ Bethuel bare 991:16,093@w | Can you 991:16,093[A ]| said he 991:16,093@w | at your good father's home 991:16,094@w | Afford a wandering stranger courteous room 991:16,095@v | Sir 991:16,095[A ]| said she 991:16,095@v | we can give you a retreat 991:16,096@v | Nor shall your camels too want roome or meat 991:16,097[A ]| At this the servant bowing low presents 991:16,098[A ]| Her arms, and ears, with Golden ornaments 991:16,099[A ]| And heaving up$5$ to$4$ heaven his pious eyes 991:16,100[A ]| Adoring God with joyful lips he cries 991:16,101@w | Blest be Jehovah, God, my Master's Lord 991:16,102@w | Who$6#1$ grace still to$4$ his servant doth afford 991:16,103@w | Who$6#1$ quickly granting the success I sought 991:16,104@w | Hath me amongst my Master's kindred brought 991:16,105[A ]| Meanwhile the maid ran home and these things told 991:16,106[A ]| On$4$ whom when as her brother did behold 991:16,107[A ]| The wealthy presents, he haste forth to$9$ meet 991:16,108[A ]| The stranger whom he doth thus kindly greet 991:16,109@w | Thou blessed of the Lord why stayest thou here 991:16,110@w | Thy welcome is prepared within draw near 991:16,111[A ]| With that$6#2$ his guests into the house he led 991:16,112[A ]| And there the weary beasts refreshed and fed 991:16,113[A ]| To$4$ him and his attendants for$4$ their feet 991:16,114[A ]| He water brought, and then prepared them meat 991:16,115[A ]| But the good Servant said, 991:16,115@w | first let me crave 991:16,116@w | Before I touch you, that$3$ I may have 991:16,117@w | Leave to$9$ declare a certain embassy 991:16,118@w | On$4$ which$6#1$ I am sent to$4$ Nahor's family 991:16,119[A ]| Laban replied, 991:16,119@w | you freely may with us 991:16,120@w | Proceed, 991:16,120[A ]| to$4$ whom the licensed servant thus 991:16,121[A ]| Unfolds his errand, 991:16,121@w | know 991:16,121[A ]| said he 991:16,121@w | I am 991:16,122@w | The servant of your kinsman Abraham 991:16,123@w | Whose travails the Almighty so$5#1$ hath blessed 991:16,124@w | That$3$ plenteous fortunes are by$4$ him possessed 991:16,125@w | Oxen and sheep Camels and Asses he 991:16,126@w | With slaves and maids enjoys abundantly 991:16,127@w | Silver and Gold his treasures afford 991:16,128@w | So$5#1$ amply as make him the honoured Lord 991:16,129@w | Of a most potent wealth designed to$9$ be 991:16,130@w | The inheritance of a noble Son which$6#1$ he 991:16,131@w | Receivd in$4$ his old age from Sarah's womb 991:16,132@w | Who$6#1$ now to$4$ perfect age and manhood come 991:16,133@w | My master will$1$ not marry in$4$ that$6#2$ land 991:16,134@w | But I sent hither by$4$ his own command 991:16,135@w | Must carry back his Son a wife from hence 991:16,136@w | For$4$ which$6#1$ Rebecca seems by$4$ providence 991:16,137@w | Marked forth, for$3$ as I at the fountain stood 991:16,138@w | I begged of God that$3$ the first maid who$6#1$ should 991:16,139@w | Come thither, and give drink to$4$ me and mine 991:16,140@w | Might be the virgin which$6#1$ he would assign 991:16,141@w | For$4$ Isaac's wife, and while as yet I prayed 991:16,142@w | Behold God sent this fair and noble maid 991:16,143@w | Whose courtesy confirmed to$4$ me the sign 991:16,144@w | I asked of God, and if he now incline 991:16,145@w | Your gentle hearts to$9$ give me your accord 991:16,146@w | I shall return successful to$4$ my Lord 991:16,147@w | If not give me your answer soon that$3$ I 991:16,148@w | To$4$ other courses may myself apply 991:16,149[A ]| When thus the servant had his message closed 991:16,150[A ]| Her parents said, 991:16,150@x | This can not be opposed 991:16,151@x | God's will$0$ herein so$5#1$ plainly is beheld 991:16,152@x | We can say nothing but obedience yield 991:16,153@x | Behold Rebecca here before thee stands 991:16,154@x | Whom freely we resign into thy hands 991:16,155@x | That$3$ she wife to$4$ thy master's son may be 991:16,156@x | Take her and let her now return with thee 991:16,157[A ]| The servant hearing this bowed down once more 991:16,158[A ]| And with a thankful heart did God adore 991:16,159[A ]| Then to$4$ his master's lovely spouse presents 991:16,160[A ]| Vessels of Gold, and Silver onaments 991:16,161[A ]| Of all sorts fitting such a noble bride 991:16,162[A ]| And fine robes in$4$ the richest tincture dyed 991:16,163[A ]| Then to$4$ her mother and her brother brings 991:16,164[A ]| Presents of choice and very precious things 991:16,165[A ]| Then they the late prepared meal increased 991:16,166[A ]| And turned it to$4$ a joyful Bridal feast 991:16,167[A ]| At which$6#1$ in$4$ mirth, much of the night expired 991:16,168[A ]| The mother of the maid, ten days desired 991:16,169[A ]| To$9$ enjoy her daughter before she went away 991:16,170[A ]| But the good man impatient of delay 991:16,171[A ]| A quick dismission pressed the friends at last 991:16,172[A ]| Referred it to$4$ Rebecca and she cast 991:16,173[A ]| It for$4$ the present voyage wherefore they 991:16,174[A ]| Giving her fit attendants the next day 991:16,175[A ]| With Blessings to$4$ her spouse the virgin sent 991:16,176[A ]| With whom a nurse and train of women went 991:06,177[A ]| How different were those virtuous days from ours 991:06,178[A ]| Beauty and goodness then were womens dowers, 991:06,179[A ]| Whom pride of their own wealth did not erect 991:06,180[A ]| To$4$ haughty carriage, but with due respect 991:06,181[A ]| Obeying their own husbands they became 991:06,182[A ]| Strangers to$4$ their first family and name 991:16,183[A ]| Not want of filial love and piety 991:16,184[A ]| Made fair Rebecca here so$5#1$ soon agree 991:16,185[A ]| Forever from her father's house to$9$ go 991:16,186[A ]| But she believed since it was concluded so$5#2$ 991:16,187[A ]| A short stay might her pious griefs augment 991:16,188[A ]| And make her virtuous courage to$9$ relent 991:16,189[A ]| Softened with her fond mother's melting tears 991:16,190[A ]| Which$6#1$ might have filled her, with such doubts and fears 991:16,191[A ]| As would have stopped the entrance of that$6#2$ love 991:16,192[A ]| That$6#1$ must the blessing of her whole life prove 991:16,193[A ]| And since she must forsake her native home 991:16,194[A ]| She wisely chose occasion now to$9$ come 991:16,195[A ]| With obligations to$4$ her future Lord 991:16,196[A ]| Who$6#1$ needs must kindly take her quick accord 991:16,197[A ]| Without impeachment to$4$ her modesty 991:16,198[A ]| So$5#1$ freely given, but yet not till she 991:16,199[A ]| Was by$4$ her parents first disposed, and then 991:16,200[A ]| With prudence maids incline unto these men 991:16,201[A ]| To$4$ whom their future service is designed 991:16,202[A ]| When it becomes their duty to$9$ be kind 991:16,203[A ]| Besides when sorrow must pierce through our hearts 991:16,204[A ]| It is better to$9$ receive quick flying darts 991:16,205[A ]| Than while we sit expecting an ill fate 991:16,206[A ]| To$9$ grow more sensible of its sad weight 991:16,207[A ]| Amazement dulls our sense of sudden blows 991:16,208[A ]| And when they are past we seek to$9$ cure our woes 991:16,209[A ]| Rebecca gave herself no$2$ time to$9$ make 991:16,210[A ]| Reflection, on$4$ those joys she must forsake 991:16,211[A ]| Dear parents, loving friends, her native place 991:16,212[A ]| An unknown land, and husband to$9$ embrace 991:16,213[A ]| Had she considered this perhaps it might 991:16,214[A ]| Have filled a tender virgin with affright 991:16,215[A ]| Yet could not have her destiny controlled 991:16,216[A ]| Tedious consideration checks the bold 991:16,217[A ]| Whilst cautious men deliberating be 991:16,218[A ]| They oftener lose the opportunity 991:16,219[A ]| Which$6#1$ daring minds embrace them with that$6#2$ wise 991:16,220[A ]| Foresight escape the threatened precipice 991:16,221[A ]| Where choice is offerd we may use the scales 991:16,222[A ]| Of prudence but where destiny prevails 991:16,223[A ]| Consideration then is out of date 991:16,224[A ]| Where courage is required to$9$ meet our fate 991:16,225[A ]| Wherefore With her dear home the parting bride 991:16,226[A ]| Forsook her tender thoughts and now applied 991:16,227[A ]| Herself unto her present state in$4$ which$6#1$ 991:16,228[A ]| Hearing her spouse was godly, honoured, rich, 991:16,229[A ]| Her hopes of happiness with joy she greets 991:16,230[A ]| And gladly so$5#2$ her future blessings meets 991:16,231[A ]| Thus many days in$4$ travel new expired 991:16,232[A ]| Her longing Soul with expectation tired 991:16,233[A ]| More than her weary limbs her eyes at last 991:16,234[A ]| As she towards evening through a large plain passed 991:16,235[A ]| Found out a man far off and being inspired 991:16,236[A ]| With a prophetic fancy she enquired 991:16,237[A ]| Of her conductor if the man in$4$ view 991:16,238[A ]| Were not his Lord, whom soon the servant knew 991:16,239[A ]| And told her it was her spouse, his master's son 991:16,240[A ]| Whereat through all her veins a chillness run 991:16,241[A ]| Begot by$4$ virgin fears, which$6#1$ swiftly chase 991:16,242[A ]| Her lively blood out of its proper place 991:16,243[A ]| And her fair cheeks with crimson blushes dyed 991:16,244[A ]| Which$6#1$ pulling down her veil she strives to$9$ hide 991:16,245[A ]| Then from her beast with duteous haste descends 991:16,246[A ]| And the encounter of her spouse attends 991:16,247[A ]| Good Isaac from a fountain came where he 991:16,248[A ]| Was used to$9$ exercise his piety 991:16,249[A ]| And when his lone thoughts had devotion raised 991:16,250[A ]| The name of God he there implored and praised 991:16,251[A ]| Returning from his holy Exercise 991:16,252[A ]| His father's camels he afar off spies 991:16,253[A ]| And his wife's train which$6#1$ made him guess 991:16,254[A ]| The Servant was come back with wished success 991:16,255[A ]| Toward whom he hastes and scarcely stays to$9$ hear 991:16,256[A ]| His story out when now the bride came near 991:16,257[A ]| Whom he with open arms received and led 991:16,258[A ]| Into his mother's tent, his glad eyes fed 991:16,259[A ]| On$4$ her unveiled beauty there until 991:16,260[A ]| They did his Soul with loving ardour fill 991:16,261[A ]| And banished out of it that$6#2$ pious grief 991:16,262[A ]| Which$6#1$ since his mother's death found no$2$ relief 991:16,263[A ]| But in$4$ the glad arrival of his wife 991:16,264[A ]| Reserved to$9$ be the comfort of his life 991:16,265[A ]| At whose approach to$4$ her such love he took 991:16,266[A ]| That$3$ every passion else quickly forsook 991:16,267[A ]| His much enamoured breast where love doth come 991:16,268[A ]| If it come powerfully it leaves no$2$ room 991:16,269[A ]| For$4$ any other cares, while as it brings 991:16,270[A ]| In$4$ its own swarm, too many smarting stings 991:16,271[A ]| Which$6#1$ where desires are unenjoyed abound 991:16,272[A ]| Nor is the Soul blessed with fruition found 991:16,273[A ]| Wholly exempt the fear of loss and change 991:16,274[A ]| Making thoughts oft in$4$ wild distempers range 991:16,275[A ]| But where impatience and desire prevail 991:16,276[A ]| A thousand arrows at one time assail 991:16,277[A ]| The undefended heart and every breast 991:16,278[A ]| That$6#1$ lets in$4$ love for$3$ that$6#2$ imperious guest 991:16,279[A ]| Must banish joy unless he can retain 991:16,280[A ]| That$6#2$ temper which$6#1$ makes reason sovereign 991:16,281[A ]| Reason by$4$ violent desire expelled 991:16,282[A ]| Good correspondence hath with chaste love held 991:16,283[A ]| And to$4$ their fellowship received delight 991:16,284[A ]| Which$6#1$ never can with their wild fire unite 991:16,285[A ]| That$6#1$ most unjustly arrogates love's name 991:16,286[A ]| Due only to$4$ a pure legitimate flame 991:16,287[A ]| Such as in$4$ Isaac's virtuous bosom reigned 991:16,288[A ]| And the pure joys of his whole life maintained 991:16,289[A ]| But before we enter on$4$ another age 991:16,290[A ]| Conclude we here great Abraham's pilgrimage 991:16,291[A ]| Who$6#1$ after the decease of his first wife 991:16,292[A ]| Ill brooking the sad solitudes of life 991:16,293[A ]| Received an humble virgin to$4$ his bed 991:16,294[A ]| Returah named who$6#1$ in$4$ her bosom fed 991:16,295[A ]| No$2$ proud ambitious thoughts and did not scorn 991:16,296[A ]| The second offspring of her body born 991:16,297[A ]| Should be inferior to$4$ the first wife's race 991:16,298[A ]| And she herself ranked in$4$ a lower place 991:16,299[A ]| The sons she brought the Patriarch, who$6#1$ lest they 991:16,300[A ]| Their brother should disturb sent them away 991:17,000@@@@@| 991:17,001[A ]| At 40 years the Patriarch Isaac wed 991:17,002[A ]| For$4$ twenty more enjoyed a fruitless bed 991:17,003[A ]| O the unperfect state of human bliss 991:17,004[A ]| The happiest mortals still some comforts miss 991:17,04a[A ]| 991:17,04b[A ]| 991:17,005[A ]| And such man's wayward nature is, that$3$ one 991:17,006[A ]| Felicity denied, all else seem none 991:17,007[A ]| For$4$ it they pine, all other blessings slight 991:17,008[A ]| And where it is offered them refuse delight 991:17,009[A ]| Great gifts enjoyed common and worthless seem 991:17,010[A ]| And Small ones wanted have a high esteem 991:17,011[A ]| Which$6#1$ men with toil and eager thoughts pursue 991:17,012[A ]| But loathe them gained, and long afresh for$4$ new 991:17,013[A ]| These too acquired, the ungrateful restless mind 991:17,014[A ]| Will$1$ not in$4$ them a satisfaction find 991:17,015[A ]| But while the world, one object can present 991:17,016[A ]| To$4$ new desire, disdaineth all content 991:17,017[A ]| Its own enjoyments can afford, this kills 991:17,018[A ]| The sweet of life, men's souls with anguish fills. 991:17,019[A ]| While they preferring still what they have not 991:17,020[A ]| To$4$ what they have, despising their own lot 991:17,021[A ]| Think human happinesse is only found 991:17,022[A ]| In$4$ that$6#2$ wherewith their fortunes least abound 991:17,023[A ]| He who$6#1$ is rolled in$4$ heaps of wealth repines 991:17,024[A ]| That$3$ his mean house with no$2$ great titles shines 991:17,025[A ]| Thinks blessedness alone on$4$ honour waits 991:17,026[A ]| The nobly born struggling ~~ with mean estates 991:17,027[A ]| Believe none but the rich are truly blessed 991:17,028[A ]| In$4$ busy courts with throngs of clients pressed 991:17,029[A ]| Men cry true bliss is in$4$ dark cells immured 991:17,030[A ]| Those whom their quiet fortunes have obscured 991:17,031[A ]| Believe that$3$ none are happy lives allowed 991:17,032[A ]| But such as still converse among the crowd 991:17,033[A ]| Merchants commend the country dwellers' lives 991:17,034[A ]| These envy their rich houses and gay wives 991:17,035[A ]| Esteem themselves condemned to$4$ endless toil 991:17,036[A ]| While the other pride it with the Ocean's spoil 991:17,037[A ]| And glad themselves with the large wealthy heap 991:17,038[A ]| Of what their youth could in$4$ strange countries reap 991:17,039[A ]| The unlearned think that$3$ knowledge only can 991:17,040[A ]| Give true felicity to$4$ mortal man 991:17,041[A ]| The scholar with dull tedious study tired 991:17,042[A ]| When he the height of wisdom hath acquired 991:17,043[A ]| In$4$ human knowledge no$2$ content can find 991:17,044[A ]| Believe it vain disturbance of the mind 991:17,045[A ]| And think those quiet mortals are most blessed 991:17,046[A ]| Whose unvexed brains no$2$ studious toils molest 991:17,047[A ]| Husbands that$6#1$ have unhandsome virtuous wives 991:17,048[A ]| Think enjoyed beauty only crowns men's lives 991:17,049[A ]| With true delight the obedient and the wise 991:17,050[A ]| If they are not fair with froward scorn despise 991:17,051[A ]| Such as imperious beauties rule, they cry 991:17,052[A ]| It is the wife's humble carriage modesty 991:17,053[A ]| And kind compliance, makes a husband blessed 991:17,054[A ]| Without these beauty adds to$4$ his unrest 991:17,055[A ]| Where fruitful wedlock is with children crowned 991:17,056[A ]| And heirs more than the heritage abound 991:17,057[A ]| There men believe themselves in$4$ bondage tied 991:17,058[A ]| Oppressed with cares and sorrowed to$9$ provide 991:17,059[A ]| For$4$ such large families, and those alone 991:17,060[A ]| Happy who$6#1$ never beneath such burdens groan 991:17,061[A ]| They that$6#1$ have wealth, chaste wives, and good repute 991:17,062[A ]| What nature or kind fate can contribute, 991:17,063[A ]| If to$4$ all these they want a certain heir 991:17,064[A ]| Amidst their store they pine with sad despair 991:17,065[A ]| And fathers only happy men esteem 991:17,066[A ]| Whose children may their flesh from death redeem 991:17,067[A ]| Reteine their figures and defend their fame 991:17,068[A ]| Preserve their memories and a lasting name 991:17,069[A ]| While others who$6#1$ no$2$ happy offspring have 991:17,070[A ]| Must wholly perish in$4$ the silent grave 991:17,071[A ]| Unhappy man who$6#1$ knows not his true want 991:17,072[A ]| Thus wastes his wretched life, in$4$ sad complaint 991:17,073[A ]| And neither with his own nor his God's choice 991:17,074[A ]| Well pleased, doth not, as creatures ought, rejoice 991:17,075[A ]| In$4$ his good maker's will$0$, his present state 991:17,076[A ]| But with his murmurings alters his own fate 991:17,077[A ]| For$4$ every lot which$6#1$ the Lord gives is good 991:17,078[A ]| And only ill when not well understood 991:17,079[A ]| We know not what gifts for$4$ ourselves are best 991:17,080[A ]| Yet can not in$4$ God's dispensations rest 991:17,081[A ]| Who$6#1$ to$4$ his Children, gracious, good, and wise, 991:17,082[A ]| Nothing but what is hurtful ever denies 991:17,083[A ]| Yet even the best, and purest of his saints 991:17,084[A ]| Daily present him with their sad complaints 991:17,085[A ]| Isaac although unanswered twenty years 991:17,086[A ]| Still prays for$4$ children till the almighty hears 991:17,087[A ]| And grants his suit, his wife conceives two sons 991:17,088[A ]| The fathers of two different nations 991:17,089[A ]| As soon as quickened in$4$ her pregnant womb 991:17,090[A ]| Begin to$9$ struggle in$4$ that$6#2$ narrow room 991:17,091[A ]| Whose strife the wretched mother so$5#1$ torments 991:17,092[A ]| That$3$ she with grief her late desires repents 991:17,093@v | If these 991:17,093[A ]| said she 991:17,093@v | be mother's joys ah why 991:17,094@v | Am I a mother made if only I 991:17,095@v | Must feel these tortures others never know 991:17,096@v | Why yet doth God let me continue so$5#2$ 991:17,097@v | Why sends he not death to$9$ conclude my pain 991:17,098@v | But makes me more than all my sex sustain 991:17,099[A ]| Then with impatience tired and terrified 991:17,100[A ]| With her strange pains at length to$4$ God applied 991:17,101[A ]| Her anxious soul her help from him did crave 991:17,102[A ]| Who$6#1$ satisfaction to$4$ her sad mind gave 991:17,103[A ]| Forth to$4$ the altar of the Lord she went 991:17,104[A ]| There did her offerings and her prayers present 991:17,105[A ]| Thence back returning through a private grove 991:17,106[A ]| Haunted by$4$ the devout who$6#1$ dark shades love 991:17,107[A ]| Down by$4$ a Spring she sat repeating there 991:17,108[A ]| The late petitions of her anxious prayer 991:17,109[A ]| When to$4$ her supplications and her tears 991:17,110[A ]| At last the Almighty bent his gracious ears 991:17,111[A ]| About his throne myriads of angels stand 991:17,112[A ]| Ready to$9$ execute his great command 991:17,113[A ]| One of these nimble spirits then employed 991:17,114[A ]| To$9$ comfort the sad dame doth swiftly glide 991:17,115[A ]| Through yielding air and from the ethereal clouds 991:17,116[A ]| Descending in$4$ a human figure shrouds 991:17,117[A ]| His angel's form puts on$5$ a prophet's face 991:17,118[A ]| Long silvered beard and tresses a slow pace 991:17,119[A ]| So$3$ with a reverend gait and countenance 991:17,120[A ]| Towards the pensive matron doth advance 991:17,121@u | Daughter 991:17,121[A ]| saith he 991:17,121@u | resume thy joyful cheer 991:17,122@u | The Lord to$9$ appeas thy griefe and quit thy fear 991:17,123@u | Acquaints thee whence thy sore pains come 991:17,124@u | Two male twins struggle in$4$ thy pregnant womb 991:17,125@u | There their dissensions in$4$ the gate of life 991:17,126@u | Are the beginnings of no$2$ private strife 991:17,127@u | From them two mighty nations shall descend 991:17,128@u | And with each other evermore contend 991:17,129@u | The people born of them shall be as far 991:17,130@u | From concord as the light and darkness are 991:17,131@u | Different their dwellings, manners, minds, shall be 991:17,132@u | Nor shall their fates, or persons, more agree 991:17,133@u | The elder people shall in$4$ might excel 991:17,134@u | The other, and in$4$ stronger places dwell 991:17,135@u | Yet all their numerous hosts and powers shall fail 991:17,136@u | The younger's happier destiny shall prevail 991:17,137@u | He shall his elder brother subjugate 991:17,138@u | Courage and strength in$4$ vain opposing fate 991:17,139@u | Fate whose irrevocable laws decree 991:17,140@u | The eldest must the younger's servant be 991:17,141[A ]| This said the angel vanished and the dame 991:17,142[A ]| With comfort back unto her women came 991:17,143[A ]| Expecting till the accomplished time that$6#1$ showed 991:17,144[A ]| When nine moons had their waning horns renewed 991:17,145[A ]| The ripe births to$4$ the cheerful light disclose 991:17,146[A ]| Then being seized with strong and painful throes 991:17,147[A ]| Lo twins were born the first overgrown with hair 991:17,148[A ]| All red like$4$ Tyrian scarlet did declare 991:17,149[A ]| His nature cruel daring fierce and wild 991:17,150[A ]| Yet then the flattering gossips gave the child 991:17,151[A ]| A name which$6#1$ glorious action signified 991:17,152[A ]| And to$4$ his bravery these signs applied 991:17,153[A ]| Thus this robustious infant forced his way 991:17,154[A ]| Nor did his brother long behind him stay 991:17,155[A ]| He catched his heel, but his inferior might 991:17,156[A ]| Could not prevent him from first greeting light 991:17,157[A ]| For$4$ this they called him Jacob as a sign 991:17,158[A ]| How he should still his brother undermine. 991:17,159[A ]| The children grew and in$4$ their youthful age 991:17,160[A ]| Various employments their delights engage 991:17,161[A ]| Esau being strong of temper wild and fierce 991:17,162[A ]| Did not in$4$ softer companies converse 991:17,163[A ]| But all the day through the thick hilly wood 991:17,164[A ]| With nimble feet and darts wild beasts pursued 991:17,165[A ]| And when black night her sable shadows spread 991:17,166[A ]| Over heavn's dark vault made the hard earth his bed 991:17,167[A ]| There did till day his weary limbs repose 991:17,168[A ]| And with the morning to$4$ his hunting rose 991:17,169[A ]| By$4$ daily exercise he cunning grew 991:17,170[A ]| The red and fallow deer sometimes he slew 991:17,171[A ]| Now badgers, tusked boars, and timorous hares, 991:17,172[A ]| Fall by$4$ his shafts, or tangled in$4$ his snares 991:17,173[A ]| Are seized alive, he finds out all the arts 991:17,174[A ]| Of murdering beasts, pits, nets, and well aimed darts 991:17,175[A ]| Which$6#1$ to$4$ the fairest head carry slight wounds 991:17,176[A ]| Then runs down the hurt deer with nimble hounds 991:17,177[A ]| Thus oft times tender hunted venison caught 991:17,178[A ]| The dainty flesh to$4$ his old father brought 991:17,179[A ]| Makes this young vigorous son his chief delight 991:17,180[A ]| His love being governed by$4$ his appetite 991:17,181[A ]| Jacob of a complexion not so$5#1$ tough 991:17,182[A ]| As gentle as his elder brother rough 991:17,183[A ]| At home still near his tender mother stayed 991:17,184[A ]| And her commands with diligence obeyed 991:17,185[A ]| His weakness first made him her darling prove 991:17,186[A ]| And then his duty gained upon$4$ her love 991:17,187[A ]| One day as Jacob walked the neighbouring ground 991:17,188[A ]| He there certain red coloured lentils found 991:17,189[A ]| Of these a savoury pottage made which$6#1$ boiled 991:17,190[A ]| Lo Esau from the chase returning, toiled 991:17,191[A ]| And faint from hunger, begs his brother's mess 991:17,192[A ]| Jacob prevailing on$4$ his greediness 991:17,193@w | Thy birthright 991:17,193[A ]| says he 991:17,193@w | shall my pottage buy 991:17,194@w | Then 991:17,194[A ]| answers Esau 991:17,194@w | if I faint and die 991:17,195@w | What boot my vain pretensions in$4$ the grave 991:17,196@w | Give me the broth thou shalt the birthright have 991:17,197@w | Confirm it with an oath 991:17,197[A ]| Jacob replies 991:17,198[A ]| Esau swears, eats, and goes, thus did despise 991:17,199[A ]| God's favour in$4$ his birth and for$4$ a slight 991:17,200[A ]| Vile mess of pottage, sold that$6#2$ native right 991:17,201[A ]| Now after Abraham's death no$2$ showers of rain 991:17,202[A ]| Had moistened Canaan's field the buried grain 991:17,203[A ]| By$4$ the hard clods stifled in$4$ its new birth 991:17,204[A ]| Abortive died, and causd a general dearth 991:17,205[A ]| Throughout the land grass parched upon$4$ the ground 991:17,206[A ]| No$2$ food for$4$ either man or beast was found 991:17,207[A ]| The withered herbs, and plants, with hot suns burned 991:17,208[A ]| Crumbled to$4$ dust russet the green leaves turned 991:17,209[A ]| As before autumn dropped off from the boughs 991:17,210[A ]| No$2$ cattle could on$4$ any fresh trees browse 991:17,211[A ]| The fountains deep into the earth did shrink 991:17,212[A ]| And left no$2$ cool streams for$4$ the herd to$9$ drink 991:17,213[A ]| Good Isaac in$4$ this general plague involved 991:17,214[A ]| By$4$ famine chased, to$9$ leave that$6#2$ land resolved 991:17,215[A ]| He only now deliberates to$4$ what stage 991:17,216[A ]| He next should carry on$5$ his pilgrimage 991:17,217[A ]| And all the neighbouring lands poised in$4$ his mind 991:17,218[A ]| His thoughts to$4$ Egypt at the last inclined 991:17,219[A ]| Heaven's bounty is not needful to$4$ that$6#2$ soil 991:17,220[A ]| Which$6#1$ only owes her plenty to$4$ the Nile 991:17,221[A ]| Fixed upon$4$ this remove his breast finds ease 991:17,222[A ]| And gentle sleep doth his dull eyelids seize 991:17,223[A ]| His senses charmed his soul which$6#1$ ever wakes 991:17,224[A ]| Now undisturbd a free reflection makes 991:17,225[A ]| On$4$ the Almighty's will$0$ who$6#1$ to$4$ his sight 991:17,226[A ]| Presents a vision in$4$ the dead of night 991:17,227[A ]| Forbidding him the voyage he designed 991:17,228@a | Quit AEgipt 991:17,228[A ]| saith the Lord 991:17,228@a | and thou shalt find 991:17,229@a | Following the tracks where I thy footsteps guide 991:17,230@a | All life's convenience by$4$ my grace supplied 991:17,231@a | Thou shalt not leave this land by$4$ me decreed 991:17,232@a | To$9$ be the inheritance of thy blessed seed 991:17,233@a | Which$6#1$ I will$1$ make more numerous than those bright 991:17,234@a | Ethereal flames that$6#1$ guide the silent night 991:17,235@a | The covenant I with faithful Abraham made 991:17,236@a | Because that$3$ my commandments he obeyed 991:17,237@a | I will$1$ to$4$ thee confirm all nations shall 991:17,238@a | Thy happy offspring their chief blessing call 991:17,239@a | Hell's conqueror shall spring out of thy stem 991:17,240@a | The regal and the priestly diadem 991:17,241@a | Shall thy illustrious nephews' temples crown 991:17,242@a | Spreading in$4$ power, riches, and renown, 991:17,243@a | They shall become a mighty glorious state 991:17,244@a | And the neighbouring regions subjugate 991:17,245@a | Stay in$4$ this land then given unto thy line 991:17,246@a | And believe every place thou dwellest is thine 991:17,247[A ]| Then Isaac did a just obedience yield 991:17,248[A ]| Assured their promises would be fulfilled 991:17,249[A ]| At Gerar where Philistias Monarch reigned 991:17,250[A ]| He as a sojourner was entertained 991:17,251[A ]| But when the men Rebecca's form admired 991:17,252[A ]| And after her more curiously enquired 991:17,253[A ]| He said, she was his sister, not his wife 991:17,254[A ]| Fearing her beauty might betray his life 991:17,255[A ]| A long while there he lived in$4$ this disguise 991:17,256[A ]| Till from a window Gerar's king descries 991:17,257[A ]| Such sportive fond behaviour as revealed 991:17,258[A ]| The marriage their denial had concealed 991:17,259[A ]| Which$6#1$ when chance in$4$ this manner did detect 991:17,260[A ]| The king for$4$ his dissembling Isaac checked 991:17,261[A ]| Who$6#1$ to$9$ excuse though not to$9$ justify 991:17,262[A ]| The action said he was afraid to$9$ die 991:17,263[A ]| The King then charged his subjects to$9$ forbear 991:17,264[A ]| Attempting any wrong to$4$ him, or her 991:17,265[A ]| Whoever dare this warning disobey 991:17,266[A ]| His head the forfeit of his faults shall pay 991:17,267[A ]| Now Isaac quite from his fear released 991:17,268[A ]| Began to$9$ hope fortune her malice ceased 991:17,269[A ]| Since in$4$ his favour thus the king declared 991:17,270[A ]| And his successful Labours well repaired 991:17,271[A ]| His substance which$6#1$ the famine had before 991:17,272[A ]| Consumed, and sense of poverty no$2$ more 991:17,273[A ]| Perplexed his thoughts for$3$ even that$6#2$ hungry year 991:17,274[A ]| The ground he sowed a hundred fold did bear 991:17,275[A ]| His flocks and herds abundantly increased 991:17,276[A ]| And he a numerous family possessed 991:17,277[A ]| Thriving thus, quickly by$4$ God's special grace 991:17,278[A ]| He grew the admiration of the place 991:17,279[A ]| But perfect bliss in$4$ any mortal state 991:17,280[A ]| Is not to$9$ be acquired, clouds still abate 991:17,281[A ]| The brightness of all humane lustre, were 991:17,282[A ]| No$2$ prickles on$4$ our Roses, could we here 991:17,283[A ]| Hope to$9$ possess a good unmixed with ill 991:17,284[A ]| We should pursue these low enjoyments still 991:17,285[A ]| And never raise up$5$ our desires on$4$ high 991:17,286[A ]| To$4$ the only perfect pure felicity 991:17,287[A ]| Therefore the wise dispenser who$6#1$ our good 991:17,288[A ]| Which$6#1$ by$4$ ourselves is not well understood 991:17,289[A ]| And our frail nature perfectly doth know 991:17,290[A ]| In$4$ all conditions either high or low 991:17,291[A ]| So$5#2$ tempers good and ill that$3$ even the best 991:17,292[A ]| Of human state is not in$4$ all things blessed 991:17,293[A ]| Nor are poor wretched mortals, in$4$ the worst 991:17,294[A ]| Of fortune's plunges every way accursed. 991:17,295[A ]| And to$9$ relieve frail man the Lord besides 991:17,296[A ]| Varies his fortunes with alternate tides 991:17,297[A ]| Where floods of plenty now to$4$ vast heights rise 991:17,298[A ]| Now the scant stream the dry shore scarce supplies 991:17,299[A ]| Of this Isaac a full example gives 991:17,300[A ]| Grown poor with famine he at quiet lives 991:18,000@@@@@| 991:18,001[A ]| The mists of lasting night began to$9$ rise 991:18,002[A ]| And had already darkened Isaac's eyes 991:18,003[A ]| When calling for$4$ his eldest son he said 991:18,004@w | The powers of death my feeble soul invade 991:18,005@w | Which$6#1$ can not long resist his conquering might 991:18,006@w | I have already lost the cheerful Light 991:18,007@w | Wherefore before I go that$6#2$ path from whence 991:18,008@w | No$2$ traveller returns I would dispense 991:18,009@w | My blessings unto thee then with thy bow 991:18,010@w | And rattling quiver to$4$ the forest go 991:18,011@w | Hunt down some venison the which$6#1$ slain there 991:18,012@w | A savoury dish for$4$ thy old sire prepare 991:18,013@w | And bring it hither that$3$ at thy hand I 991:18,014@w | May eat, And my soul bless thee before I die 991:18,015[A ]| Esay forthwith departed to$4$ the chase 991:18,016[A ]| Meanwhile Rebecca being in$4$ the place 991:18,017[A ]| When Isaac gave the charge, she forms a plot 991:18,018[A ]| To$9$ have this blessing by$4$ her darling got 991:18,019[A ]| She tells him what she heard his father say 991:18,020[A ]| And adds that$3$ if he would proceed the way 991:18,021[A ]| She had contrived, do what she could advise 991:18,022[A ]| He might his brother's blessing thus surprise 991:18,023[A ]| Jacob objects his hazard if descried 991:18,024[A ]| Rather to$9$ incur a curse, but she replied 991:18,025@v | I will$1$ between thee and the danger stand 991:18,026@v | Mine be the curse thou gainest by$4$ my command 991:18,027[A ]| Then he himself did to$4$ her conduct yield 991:18,028[A ]| Two tender kids he brought her from the field 991:18,029[A ]| Like$4$ venison she their savoury flesh prepares 991:18,030[A ]| The skin of Jacob's smooth hands hides with theirs 991:18,031[A ]| Puts him in$4$ a rich suit of Esau's clothes 991:18,032[A ]| Who$6#1$ thus disguised unto his father goes 991:18,033[A ]| Then says 991:18,033@w | arise my father, 991:18,033[A ]| Isaac cried 991:18,034@w | Who$6#1$ art thou son, 991:18,034[A ]| to$4$ which$6#1$ Jacob replied 991:18,035@w | I am thy first born Esau, thy command 991:18,036@w | I have performed accept it at my hand. 991:18,037@w | The hunted venison I for$4$ thee have caught 991:18,038@w | And dressed according to$4$ thy palate, brought. 991:18,039@w | Then rise and feed upon$4$ this savoury mess 991:18,040@w | That$3$ eating it, thy soul thy son may bless 991:18,041@w | How came it 991:18,041[A ]| said Isaac 991:18,041@w | thou foundest a prey 991:18,042@w | So$5#1$ soon, 991:18,042@w | God said he sent it in$4$ my way 991:18,043@w | Approach 991:18,043[A ]| said Isaac 991:18,043@w | let me feel thy hand 991:18,044@w | That$3$ I thereby may surely understand 991:18,045@w | Thou art my eldest son, 991:18,045[A ]| then came he near 991:18,046@w | It is Esau's hands 991:18,046[A ]| said Isaac 991:18,046@w | but I fear 991:18,047@w | The voice of Jacob is there no$2$ deceit 991:18,048@w | Art thou or dost thou Esau personate 991:18,049[A ]| He answered 991:18,049@w | I am Esau really 991:18,050@w | Then 991:18,050[A ]| said his father 991:18,050@w | my dear son draw nigh 991:18,051@w | Let me now of thy hunted dainties feed 991:18,052@w | That$3$ I may bless thee as I have decreed 991:18,053[A ]| With that$6#2$ Jacob presents the meat and wine 991:18,054[A ]| When Isaac fed, pursuing his design 991:18,055[A ]| Thus speaks, 991:18,055@w | now let me kiss my son at last 991:18,056[A ]| As he received this kiss the raiment cast 991:18,057[A ]| Forth Esau's smell, 991:18,057@w | my son 991:18,057[A ]| Said he 991:18,057@w | doth yield 991:18,058@w | The fragrant smell of a well prospering field 991:18,059@w | Blessed be the Lord Jehovah shower on$4$ thee 991:18,060@w | The dews of heaven, let the earth's fatness be 991:18,061@w | Thy wealthy portion, let thy fruitful ground 991:18,062@w | With thriving grain, and floods of wine abound 991:18,063@w | May various people all serve thee, and may 991:18,064@w | All nations unto thee a reverence pay 991:18,065@w | Sovereign over thy brethren still be thou 991:18,066@w | And let thy mother's sons before thee bow 991:18,067@w | Whoever wish thee accursed themselves be so$5#2$ 991:18,068@w | And blessings unto them that$6#1$ bless thee flow 991:18,069[A ]| Jacob thus blessed forth from his father went 991:18,070[A ]| Scarce gone, but Esau doth himself present 991:18,071[A ]| Who$6#1$ having hunted and dressed savoury meat 991:18,072[A ]| My father 991:18,072[A ]| said he 991:18,072[A ]| rise my venison eat 991:18,073[A ]| Then let thy soul to$4$ me a blessing give 991:18,074[A ]| Isaac too late doth now the fraud perceive 991:18,075[A ]| But pious fraud whereby his zealous wife 991:18,076[A ]| Strove to$9$ correct the errors of his life 991:18,077[A ]| Who$6#1$ governed by$4$ a partial blind affection 991:18,078[A ]| Stuck to$4$ that$6#2$ choice, which$6#1$ was not God's election 991:18,079[A ]| Who$6#1$ in$4$ their birth without a reason shown 991:18,080[A ]| To$9$ make his boundless will$0$ and free grace known 991:18,081[A ]| Declared love to$4$ the one to$4$ the other hate 991:18,082[A ]| Well pleased in$4$ this, makes that$6#2$ a Reprobate 991:18,083[A ]| Before the children had done good or ill 991:18,084[A ]| Reveals the intent of his free moving will$0$ 991:18,085[A ]| And manifests his great prerogative 991:18,086[A ]| Over all the creatures who$6#1$ their being derive 991:18,087[A ]| From his vast power which$6#1$ bounded by$4$ no$2$ laws 991:18,088[A ]| Acts freely without any second cause 991:18,089[A ]| Though with their maker sinful men contend 991:18,090[A ]| As if their narrow hearts could comprehend 991:18,091[A ]| His boundless power forgetting they are dust 991:18,092[A ]| According to$4$ their measures make him just 991:18,093[A ]| Think men's deserts his recompenses guide 991:18,094[A ]| His justice with an overweening pride 991:18,095[A ]| To$4$ their own balance bring when on$4$ his breath 991:18,096[A ]| Alone depends all creatures life and death 991:18,097[A ]| And as merely of free grace life he gives 991:18,098[A ]| So$3$ all the means by$4$ which$6#1$ his creature lives 991:18,099[A ]| All sins that$6#1$ lead to$4$ death are the effects 991:18,100[A ]| Of that$6#2$ free power which$6#1$ chooses or rejects 991:18,101[A ]| Then happy he who$6#1$ on$4$ the Lord depends 991:18,102[A ]| And without murmuring his decrees Attends 991:18,103[A ]| Who$6#1$ like$4$ the sacred prophet humbly says 991:18,104@w | Lord though thou kill me I thy name will$1$ praise 991:18,105[A ]| Isaac's corporeal eyes were not more blind 991:18,106[A ]| Than the affections of his erring mind 991:18,107[A ]| But by$4$ the late events recovering sight 991:18,108[A ]| His soul is struck with terrible affright 991:18,109[A ]| To$9$ find that$3$ he himself had given the doom 991:18,110[A ]| His darling should his brother's slave become 991:18,111[A ]| As a Stout man who$6#1$ with prevailing might 991:18,112[A ]| In$4$ civil war had slaine his opposite 991:18,113[A ]| And with glad haste run to$9$ despoil the dead 991:18,114[A ]| Under the gilded helm had owned the head 991:18,115[A ]| Of some dear friend whose dislodged soul had found 991:18,116[A ]| Unkind extrusion through his cruel wound 991:18,117[A ]| Amazing horror all his senses fills 991:18,118[A ]| From every limb cold clammy sweat distils 991:18,119[A ]| The murderer like$4$ a marble Statue stands 991:18,120[A ]| By$4$ the pale corpse his feeble knees and hands 991:18,121[A ]| By$4$ trembling only show he is alive 991:18,122[A ]| So$3$ did it to$4$ the aged man arrive 991:18,123[A ]| When now the late occurrences revolved 991:18,124[A ]| A trembling horror all his joints dissolved 991:18,125[A ]| By$4$ God long since by$4$ himself pronounced but late 991:18,126[A ]| He sees his son's irrevocable state 991:18,127[A ]| And now acknowledges mortals in$4$ vain 991:18,128[A ]| Strive to$9$ prevent what God doth once ordain 991:18,129[A ]| His wisdom human policy befools 991:18,130[A ]| And to$4$ his purpose man's powers ever rules 991:18,131[A ]| Mocks at the silly worms whose brains work still 991:18,132[A ]| Fixing resolves as if they could their will$0$ 991:18,133[A ]| Establish against what he hath decreed 991:18,134[A ]| Whose strong endeavours evermore succeed 991:18,135[A ]| Contrary to$4$ their own infirm design 991:18,136[A ]| Advancing that$6#2$ which$6#1$ they would most decline 991:18,137[A ]| Old Isaac had not else so$5#1$ long delayed 991:18,138[A ]| The promised blessing to$9$ transfer, nor stayed 991:18,139[A ]| For$4$ venison now when as without it he 991:18,140[A ]| Might have his first born blessed had he been free 991:18,141[A ]| Not acted by$4$ a secret providence 991:18,142[A ]| Whose workings were not obvious to$4$ his sense 991:18,143[A ]| Than to$4$ the venison raised his appetite 991:18,144[A ]| And framed the occasion by$4$ which$6#1$ Jacob might 991:18,145[A ]| Surprise the promisd blessing this withhold 991:18,146[A ]| Him when the different voice a doubt instilled 991:18,147[A ]| From giving credit to$4$ his ears above 991:18,148[A ]| His more beguiled touch it was this did move 991:18,149[A ]| Him, his own soul's misgiving to$9$ neglect 991:18,150[A ]| That$3$ God's sure purpose might thus take effect 991:18,151[A ]| These things resolved in$4$ his disturbed thoughts 991:18,152[A ]| And he convinced thereby of his own faults 991:18,153[A ]| Who$6#1$ to$4$ the oracles of God so$5#1$ slight 991:18,154[A ]| Regard had given, nor having placed aright 991:18,155[A ]| His partial Love, doted on$4$ him the Lord 991:18,156[A ]| As a profane wild reprobate abhorred 991:18,157[A ]| Therefore at length he did his will$0$ submit 991:18,158[A ]| To$4$ God's, but could not altogether quit 991:18,159[A ]| His natural inclination, yet he tries 991:18,160[A ]| His utmost and with strong faith fortifies 991:18,161[A ]| His frail heart which$6#1$ suppressing at the length 991:18,162[A ]| All human fondness gave his tongue the strength 991:18,163[A ]| To$9$ utter what was past 991:18,163@w | where is 991:18,163[A ]| said he 991:18,164@w | The impostor that$6#1$ hath cheated thee and me 991:18,165@w | Who$6#1$ before thine brought venison finely dressed 991:18,166@w | Of which$6#1$ I eat and him my soul hath blessed 991:18,167@w | Nor have I will$0$ or power to$9$ revoke 991:18,168@w | The promised blessing now already spoke 991:18,169[A ]| A sad sense of his loss then Esau felt 991:18,170[A ]| And did into a flood of sorrow melt 991:18,171[A ]| But ah too late teares can not now restore 991:18,172[A ]| The blessing he so$5#1$ much contemned before 991:18,173[A ]| Chief of these native privileges he 991:18,174[A ]| For$4$ pottage sold, yet now he cries 991:18,174@w | bless me 991:18,175@w | Me also o my dearest father bless 991:18,176[A ]| This prayer he made in$4$ his soul's bitterness 991:18,177[A ]| Then Isaac said, 991:18,177@w | the blessing I designed 991:18,178@w | For$4$ thee but thee thy brother undermined 991:18,179[A ]| Esau replied 991:18,179@w | makes he not good his name 991:18,180@w | Who$6#1$ by$4$ his subtle practice twice became 991:18,181@w | Possessor of my rights hast thou let fall 991:18,182@w | Thy store on$4$ him and left me none at all 991:18,183[A ]| Then answerd Isaac 991:18,183@w | the supremacy 991:18,184@w | Over all his brethren is his, And I have thee 991:18,185@w | His vassal made him corn and wine I gave 991:18,186@w | What now is left for$4$ thee my son to$9$ have 991:18,187[A ]| Then Esau weeping said 991:18,187@w | o search thy store 991:18,188@w | Among thy blessings hast thou not one more 991:18,189@w | Reserved yet for$4$ me pity my sad 991:18,190@w | Distress and unto me one blessing add 991:18,191[A ]| Then Isaac answered, 991:18,191@w | hear thy destinies 991:18,192@w | Heaven thy land with fattening dew supplies 991:18,193@w | Thy dwelling shall be in$4$ a fruitful ground 991:18,194@w | With the earth's richest bounties ever crowned 991:18,195@w | Thou by$4$ thy valour shalt thy life sustain 991:18,196@w | But yet thy brother's vassal must remain 991:18,197@w | Till after a long tract of future time 991:18,198@w | Thy nephews shall to$4$ regal honour climb 991:18,199@w | And when they have their ancient fetters broke 991:18,200@w | For$4$ evermore cast off his servile yoke 991:18,201[A ]| Esau repined at this inferior fate 991:18,202[A ]| And envying Jacob with a violent hate 991:18,203[A ]| For$4$ his large blessing could not quite suppress 991:18,204[A ]| His deep resentment but with bitterness 991:18,205[A ]| Against his fraud he privately inveighed 991:18,206[A ]| And secret bloody resolutions made 991:18,207[A ]| That$3$ whensoever his father Isaac died 991:18,208[A ]| His thirst of vengeance should be satisfied 991:18,209[A ]| With Jacob's life, this by$4$ Rebecca's spies 991:18,210[A ]| Made known to$4$ her, she prudent, doth advise 991:18,211[A ]| Jacob to$9$ make a politic retreat 991:18,212[A ]| Till length of time had cooled the violent heat 991:18,213[A ]| Of Esau's fury, he persuaded, next 991:18,214[A ]| Pretends to$4$ Isaac that$3$ her soul being vexed 991:18,215[A ]| With Esau's insolent wives, she to$9$ prevent 991:18,216[A ]| Jacob from marrying so$5#2$ would have him sent 991:18,217[A ]| To$4$ her own kindred that$3$ no$2$ Hittite wife 991:18,218[A ]| Might add to$4$ the affliction of her life 991:18,219[A ]| What power like$4$ that$6#2$ of subtle women when 991:18,220[A ]| They exercise their skill to$9$ manage men 991:18,221[A ]| Their weak force recompensed with wily arts 991:18,222[A ]| While men Rule kingdoms women rule their hearts 991:18,223[A ]| Her good persuasions happily succeed 991:18,224[A ]| Jacob's departure at that$6#2$ time decreed 991:18,225[A ]| He now approached to$9$ take his fathers leave 991:18,226[A ]| These blessings and instructions doth receive 991:18,227@w | My son 991:18,227[A ]| said Issac 991:18,227@w | this is my command 991:18,228@w | That$3$ thou wed not a daughter of this land 991:18,229@w | But to$4$ thy Mother's native country go 991:18,230@w | And woo her brother Laban to$9$ bestow 991:18,231@w | One of his daughters on$4$ thee for$4$ a wife 991:18,232@w | And having this a partner of thy life 991:18,233@w | Let God Almighty thy chaste wedlock bless 991:18,234@w | With happy and abundant fruitfulness 991:18,235@w | Thy pious nuptials crown, so$5#1$ prosper thee 991:18,236@w | That$3$ thou mayst multitude of people be 991:18,237@w | Let Abraham's blessing upon$4$ thee descend 991:18,238@w | And unto all thy Progeny extend 991:18,239@w | The land which$6#1$ God to$4$ Abraham gave where thou 991:18,240@w | As he and I, art a stranger now 991:18,241@w | Let the inheritance of it be thine 991:18,242@w | And long continue in$4$ thy blessed line 991:18,243[A ]| This blessing only Isaac did provide 991:18,244[A ]| To$9$ furnish out his son who$6#1$ had beside 991:18,245[A ]| No$2$ servants, horses, money, food, nor clothes 991:18,246[A ]| Could tender parents, thus their child expose 991:18,247[A ]| While they had flowing wealth to$9$ set him forth 991:18,248[A ]| God's blessing is not of such little worth 991:18,249[A ]| Whoever hath it carries with him more 991:18,250[A ]| Than all that$6#1$ is heaped in$4$ the vain worldlings store 991:18,251[A ]| Full well the faithful Patriarch understood 991:18,252[A ]| The Almighty's favourites want not any good 991:18,253[A ]| As a small Crystal stream which$6#1$ singly flows 991:18,254[A ]| From the upper springs augmenting as it goes 991:18,255[A ]| At last becomes a great flood, and divides 991:18,256[A ]| Among the lower grounds, his pleasant tides 991:18,257[A ]| Such Jacob's fortunes were who$6#1$ well content 991:18,258[A ]| With the pure fountain of God's blessing went 991:18,259[A ]| Unfurnished of all outward earthly things 991:18,260[A ]| And back returning streams of plenty brings 991:18,261[A ]| Yet went he not thus unaccompanied 991:18,262[A ]| Because their trust on$4$ providence relied 991:18,263[A ]| For$3$ faith prohibits not that$6#2$ honest care 991:18,264[A ]| Wherewith the godly life's supplies prepare 991:18,265[A ]| But contrary to$4$ this the sacred writ 991:18,266[A ]| Terms him an infidel who$6#1$ doth omit 991:18,267[A ]| The warranted provision for$4$ his own 991:18,268[A ]| But Jacob was dismissed thus alone 991:18,269[A ]| To$9$ avoid worse danger lest his equipage 991:18,270[A ]| Making his journey known his brother's rage 991:18,271[A ]| An opportunity might hereby gain 991:18,272[A ]| And he by$4$ treachery in$4$ the way be slain 991:18,273[A ]| It was therefore thought convenient he should so$5#2$ 991:18,274[A ]| Depart, as none might his departure know 991:18,275[A ]| The saddest circumstance was not yet past 991:18,276[A ]| His dearest mother's farewell who$6#1$ at last 991:18,277[A ]| Conquering her passions with a virtuous force 991:18,278[A ]| Chased from her soul all womanish remorse 991:18,279[A ]| Yet shedding two full streams of pious tears 991:18,280[A ]| With such kind words her banished darling cheers 991:18,281@v | My son that$3$ I consent to$4$ thy remove 991:18,282@v | Is the effect of a triumphant love 991:18,283@v | Which$6#1$ parts with all the pleasure I enjoy 991:18,284@v | That$3$ my delights may not thy life destroy 991:18,285@v | When thou art gone I shall no$2$ comfort have 991:18,286@v | But that$3$ my griefs thee from thy Brother's fury save 991:18,287@v | I know by$4$ giving back his forfeit right 991:18,288@v | Perhaps he would be pleased and so$3$ I might 991:18,289@v | Retain thee still but heaven forbid I should 991:18,290@v | For$4$ my own pleasure, thus oppose the good 991:18,291@v | Fly to$9$ obtain the promises decreed 991:18,292@v | Let steadfast hope thy fainting spirits feed 991:18,293@v | In$4$ the distresses of thy wandering state 991:18,294@v | Let God's sure word thy just soul recreate 991:18,295@v | This land he doth for$4$ thee design 991:18,296@v | And will$1$ in$4$ time restore thee unto thine 991:18,297@v | Give way unto thy brother's wrath a while 991:18,298@v | And shun his sword by$4$ suffering an exile 991:18,299@v | Too miserable should I be to$9$ have 991:18,300@v | Two sons at once go timeless to$4$ their grave 991:19,000@@@@@| 991:19,001[A ]| Poor Jacob now exposed to$4$ banishment 991:19,002[A ]| Forth from Beersheba towards Haran went 991:19,003[A ]| But overtaken with the hasty night 991:19,004[A ]| Whose spreading shades already veiled the light 991:19,005[A ]| He in$4$ the place a heap of rough stones found 991:19,006[A ]| These for$4$ a pillow takes, and on$4$ the ground 991:19,007[A ]| His weary limbs distends nor long reposed 991:19,008[A ]| But gentle sleep his heavie eyelids closd 991:19,009[A ]| O how are mean men if they know it blessed 991:19,010[A ]| They on$4$ the hard earth can find pleasant rest 991:19,011[A ]| When princes rolling in$4$ their beds of plume 991:19,012[A ]| With waking cares the tedious night consume 991:19,013[A ]| Among the royal couches there are none 991:19,014[A ]| Afford such ease as this poor traveller's stone 991:19,015[A ]| In$4$ his toiled brains no$2$ frightful dreams are bred 991:19,016[A ]| Nor starts he wakened with a guilty dread 991:19,017[A ]| He who$6#1$ unhousd heaven's vast arch only covers 991:19,018[A ]| May sleep secure while restless care still hovers 991:19,019[A ]| Where rich men lie their wealth requires a guard 991:19,020[A ]| The poor man's sleeps are soft, though his bed be hard 991:19,021[A ]| There are no$2$ terrors where the soul is pure 991:19,022[A ]| But wicked greatness no$2$ watch can secure 991:19,023[A ]| Still waking horror on$4$ the guilty waits 991:19,024[A ]| With torturing conscience and her hellborne mates 991:19,025[A ]| Despair, suspicion, dread, and dismal woe 991:19,026[A ]| Whence frightful melancholy visions flow 991:19,027[A ]| Whenever slumbers close the heavy eyes 991:19,028[A ]| But where sweet contemplation minds employs 991:19,029[A ]| The dreams feed that$6#2$ pure soul with fresh delight 991:19,030[A ]| Repeating the day's comforts in$4$ the night 991:19,031[A ]| Whatever employs the busy force of thought 991:19,032[A ]| While mortals wake by$4$ nimble fancy brought 991:19,033[A ]| Back to$4$ their view in$4$ sleep again appears 991:19,034[A ]| Mocking their charmed touches eyes and ears 991:19,035[A ]| Thus the rough soldier who$6#1$ in$4$ war delights 991:19,036[A ]| Dreams of scaled forts long marches bloody fights 991:19,037[A ]| The ploughman dreams of his new springing grain 991:19,038[A ]| The gripple usurer of his coming gain 991:19,039[A ]| The labourer of his toil the awful slave 991:19,040[A ]| Of the last harsh commands his stern Lord gave 991:19,041[A ]| The scholar in$4$ his sleeps old authors reads 991:19,042[A ]| At wrangling bars the glibtongued Lawyer pleads 991:19,043[A ]| The wanton new young Lovers entertains 991:19,044[A ]| The knowledge of new fucuses or fashion's gains 991:19,045[A ]| Invading foes and treasons Kings affright 991:19,046[A ]| Loose Courtiers dream of bravery and delight 991:19,047[A ]| Seamen that$3$ the rough winds the seas deform 991:19,048[A ]| And all the billows crowd into a storm 991:19,049[A ]| Of distant shores, strange Islands, horrid rocks 991:19,050[A ]| Deep gulfs, and all the ocean's monstrous flocks 991:19,051[A ]| The planter grafts his pear trees, prunes his vines 991:19,052[A ]| Gathers his ripe fruits tuns his new pressed wines 991:19,053[A ]| These and a 1000 waking actions more 991:19,054[A ]| The vigorous fancy doth in$4$ sleep restore 991:19,055[A ]| Other dreams from the temper rise, and some 991:19,056[A ]| From diabolical illusions come 991:19,057[A ]| With natural dreams sometimes good spirits do 991:19,058[A ]| Mix warnings of those evils which$6#1$ ensue 991:19,059[A ]| Sometimes when sleeps the fleshly senses bind 991:19,060[A ]| God represents to$4$ the unbusied mind 991:19,061[A ]| In$4$ visions the events which$6#1$ he prepares 991:19,062[A ]| For$4$ mortal men the ways of bliss declares 991:19,063[A ]| Or else discovers hidden mysteries 991:19,064[A ]| Wherein his dear Saints' consolation lies 991:19,065[A ]| Such in$4$ his desolate longing Jacob found 991:19,066[A ]| Who$6#1$ sees a ladder standing on$4$ the ground 991:19,067[A ]| The top up$5$ to$4$ high heaven advanced from whence 991:19,068[A ]| The angels waiting on$4$ god's providence 991:19,069[A ]| Perpetually in$4$ thick troops made descent 991:19,070[A ]| And back to$4$ heaven by$4$ the same steps they went 991:19,071[A ]| To$4$ heaven where his penetrating sight 991:19,072[A ]| Beholds the glorious uncreated light 991:19,073[A ]| Where at the Ladder's top Jehovah stood 991:19,074[A ]| And thus his lasting promises renewed 991:19,075@a | I am that$6#2$ God whom Abraham did before 991:19,076@a | And since thy father Isaac did adore 991:19,077@a | The land on$4$ which$6#1$ thou liest I have decreed 991:19,078@a | To$9$ give it unto thee and thy blessed seed 991:19,079@a | Which$6#1$ I will$1$ make as numerous as the sands 991:19,080@a | Dilate to$4$ the east west north and southern lands 991:19,081@a | Blessings unto the whole earth's families 991:19,082@a | From thee and thy successors shall arise 991:19,083@a | Lo I am with thee and in$4$ every place 991:19,084@a | Wherever thou goest will$1$ be thy guard, my grace 991:19,085@a | Shall thee in$4$ all thy wanderings sustain 991:19,086@a | And to$4$ this land conduct thee back again 991:19,087@a | Till all thy promises accomplished be 991:19,088@a | I will$1$ in$4$ no$2$ distress abandon thee 991:19,089[A ]| This said himself again the Almighty shrouds 991:19,090[A ]| The vision vanished with the shutting clouds 991:19,091[A ]| And Jacob starts from sleep then horror chilled 991:19,092[A ]| His blood amazement his whole bosom filled 991:19,093[A ]| Till recollecting his disturbed sense 991:19,094[A ]| Converting his wild dread to$4$ reverence 991:19,095[A ]| His soul into a pious admiration breaks 991:19,096[A ]| And thus with trembling lips the Patriarch speaks 991:19,097@w | Surely Jehovah is conversant here 991:19,098@w | And it did not to$4$ my dull sense appear 991:19,099@w | How dreadful is this place, sure it is God's court 991:19,100@w | And heaven is entered by$4$ this sacred port 991:19,101[A ]| Night's charriot hasted on$5$ by$4$ swift hours drawn 991:19,102[A ]| And the next day brought on$4$ his early dawn 991:19,103[A ]| When with like$2$ diligence as dames that$6#1$ feel 991:19,104[A ]| The spur of urging need rise to$4$ the wheel 991:19,105[A ]| Rake by$4$ the cinders, and rush candles light 991:19,106[A ]| Calling their drowsy maids up$5$ while it is night 991:19,107[A ]| Then ply their tasks and labour hard to$9$ gain 991:19,108[A ]| An honest maintenance for$4$ their small train 991:19,109[A ]| The son of Isaac from his hard bed rose 991:19,110[A ]| The stone on$4$ which$6#1$ he did that$6#2$ night repose 991:19,111[A ]| Erects and consecrates unto the Lord 991:19,112[A ]| And like$4$ a pillar sets it to$9$ record 991:19,113[A ]| The memorable vision then adores 991:19,114[A ]| And oil upon$4$ his rustic Altar pours 991:19,115[A ]| Calls the place Bethell and here makes a vow 991:19,116[A ]| Saying 991:19,116@w | if God grant me his presence now 991:19,117@w | If he protect me in$4$ the way I go 991:19,118@w | If easy food and raiment he bestow 991:19,119@w | Me to$4$ my father's house in$4$ peace restore 991:19,120@w | Then will$1$ I for$4$ my God the Lord adore 991:19,121@w | This stone which$6#1$ I a pillar make shall be 991:19,122@w | The house of God when he enricheth me 991:19,123@w | Whatever God gives me tithe of everything 991:19,124@w | I here will$1$ to$4$ his holy Altar bring 991:19,125[A ]| Yet befoe we part from Bethell once again 991:19,126[A ]| We must review the vision and explain 991:19,127[A ]| What God did there to$4$ him, and us intend 991:19,128[A ]| For$3$ hereon many mysteries depend. 991:19,129[A ]| The ladder as to$4$ Jacob signifies 991:19,130[A ]| His mortal progress which$6#1$ from the earth doth rise 991:19,131[A ]| Till he heaven's arched palaces ascend 991:19,132[A ]| The Angels marching up$5$ and down defend 991:19,133[A ]| Him from the anxious danger of the way 991:19,134[A ]| God stands above and doth his paths survey 991:19,135[A ]| Who$6#1$ guarded by$4$ his providential care 991:19,136[A ]| Escapes the wild hunter Esau's murdering snare 991:19,137[A ]| Now on$4$ the ground secured from wild beasts sleeps 991:19,138[A ]| No$2$ killing serpent near his lodging creeps 991:19,139[A ]| In$4$ spite of Laban's fraud, he largely thrives 991:19,140[A ]| Wealthy and safe at home again arrives 991:19,141[A ]| This as to$4$ him but not to$4$ him alone 991:19,142[A ]| By$4$ this the pilgrimage of all saints shown 991:19,143[A ]| Informs us that$3$ while Christians climb on$4$ high 991:19,144[A ]| By$4$ the harsh steps of crosses poverty 991:19,145[A ]| Scorn persecution self-denial hate 991:19,146[A ]| The austere progress of a Christian state 991:19,147[A ]| God still is present all their sufferings knows 991:19,148[A ]| He watches over them regards their woes 991:19,149[A ]| Assures them of his never failing aid 991:19,150[A ]| When danger and the monster death invade 991:19,151[A ]| Over whose powers by$4$ him they shall prevail 991:19,152[A ]| And at the last heaven's glorious palace scale 991:19,153[A ]| There at their father's house sit down in$4$ peace 991:19,154[A ]| And share those perfect joys which$6#1$ never cease 991:19,155[A ]| And all along till this sad journey's end 991:19,156[A ]| An host of angels on$4$ their steps attend 991:19,157[A ]| Carrying their fervent prayers to$4$ god on$4$ high 991:19,158[A ]| And bringing down his liberal supply 991:19,159[A ]| By$4$ whom their labours never are forgot 991:19,160[A ]| Who$6#1$ still is present though they see it not 991:19,161[A ]| Yet doth this ladder higher things display 991:19,162[A ]| This ladder is the Christian's only way 991:19,163[A ]| The blessed Messiah heaven's gate by$4$ whom 991:19,164[A ]| The Saints into his father's glory come 991:19,165[A ]| The mediator between earth and heaven 991:19,166[A ]| From the eternal father's bosom given 991:19,167[A ]| Whose Godhead with the human nature joined 991:19,168[A ]| To$4$ the eternal comfort of mankind 991:19,169[A ]| Remains the way to$9$ escape hell's conquering powers 991:19,170[A ]| And climb up$5$ to$4$ the high celestial towers 991:19,171[A ]| His merit and his intercession are alone 991:19,172[A ]| The stairs by$4$ which$6#1$ from God's eternal throne 991:19,173[A ]| His sacred ministers bring to$4$ mankind 991:19,174[A ]| The sweet refreshments they from his grace find 991:19,175[A ]| And when death throws down this frail house of clay 991:19,176[A ]| Pious souls back to$4$ eternal rest convey 991:19,177[A ]| God stands at top still ready to$9$ receive 991:19,178[A ]| Those dear souls whom the holy angels heave 991:19,179[A ]| Confident hope to$4$ Jacob's feet adds wings 991:19,180[A ]| And him to$4$ Nahors land in$4$ short space brings 991:19,181[A ]| Now the declining sun was hurried fast 991:19,182[A ]| Down the Hesperian hill the pilgrim past 991:19,183[A ]| Then through a wild and untracked forest where 991:19,184[A ]| No$2$ sign of human dwellings did appear 991:19,185[A ]| But he who$6#1$ in$4$ his first lodging on$4$ the ground 991:19,186[A ]| Visions of God and blessed angels found 991:19,187[A ]| No$2$ solitary horror now can dread 991:19,188[A ]| Each flowery bank a sweet perfumed bed 991:19,189[A ]| The Starry sky a glorious roof esteems 991:19,190[A ]| Soft air better than silken curtains seems 991:19,191[A ]| Yet now under a tuft of aged trees 991:19,192[A ]| Three shepherds resting with their flocks he sees 991:19,193[A ]| Who$6#1$ while they there for$4$ their companions stayed 991:19,194[A ]| Invite him to$4$ their hospitable shade 991:19,195[A ]| For$3$ courtesy then had not left the plains 991:19,196[A ]| But made her dwelling amongst gentle swains 991:19,197[A ]| From these he learnt that$3$ providence had brought 991:19,198[A ]| His weary steps near to$4$ the place he sought 991:19,199[A ]| That$3$ these belonged to$4$ Laban's city he 991:19,200[A ]| Yet lived and flourished in$4$ prosperity 991:19,201[A ]| Then Jacob asks the shepherds why they stay 991:19,202[A ]| There with their flocks since the declining day 991:19,203[A ]| Had so$5#1$ much empire left as that$3$ they might 991:19,204[A ]| Well fill themselves before the approaching night 991:19,205[A ]| The men replied 991:18,205@x | there is an ample well 991:19,206@x | Hid with that$6#2$ mighty stone, where all that$6#1$ dwell 991:19,207@x | In$4$ Haran their dry flocks to$4$ water drive 991:19,208@x | But until all the other flocks arrive 991:19,209@x | We are forced to$9$ stay because that$6#2$ weighty stone 991:19,210@x | Is more than a few men can move alone 991:19,211@x | Nor long will$1$ they our expectation mock 991:19,212@x | For$3$ lo fair Rachell comes with Laban's flock 991:19,213@x | And she is the only loadstone the bright star 991:19,214@x | By$4$ whose light all our youth attracted are 991:19,215@x | Yet she her thoughts pure as her looks doth keep 991:19,216@x | Harbours no$2$ care but for$4$ her flock of sheep 991:19,217@x | Who$6#1$ of their guardian proud before her play 991:19,218@x | Whilst all the amorous shepherds pine away 991:19,219@x | Whose courtship she nor scorns nor entertains 991:19,220@x | Of a successful rival none complains 991:19,221@x | For$3$ her lovers all the same indifference find 991:19,222@x | And yet her coldness is of such a kind 991:19,223@x | So$5#2$ managed it a reverence begets 991:19,224@x | And higher value on$4$ her beauties sets 991:19,225@x | Now let your own eyes judge her wondrous face 991:19,226@x | See how she moves on$5$ with becoming grace 991:19,227[A ]| And then indeed the shepherdess drew nigh 991:19,228[A ]| On$4$ whom as soon as Jacob fixed his eye 991:19,229[A ]| Like$4$ one that$6#1$ suddenly out of dark rooms 991:19,230[A ]| Into the open glorious sunshine comes 991:19,231[A ]| A while his dazzled eyes quite lost their sight 991:19,232[A ]| Which$6#1$ was restored again even by$4$ that$6#2$ light 991:19,233[A ]| That$6#1$ troubled them before and now doth find 991:19,234[A ]| Such winning sweetness with that$6#2$ splendour joined 991:19,235[A ]| That$3$ his delighted soul dwells in$4$ his eyes 991:19,236[A ]| And renders them so$5#1$ vigorous they surprise 991:19,237[A ]| The virgin's heart, whose youthful innocence 991:19,238[A ]| Made her yet think she needed no$2$ defence 991:19,239[A ]| As when black clouds the face of heaven deform 991:19,240[A ]| He who$6#1$ in$4$ the open field would shun the storm 991:19,241[A ]| Runs to$4$ the shelter of a neighbouring oak 991:19,242[A ]| Which$6#1$ falling with thunder's sudden stroke 991:19,243[A ]| So$5#1$ his amazed sense confounds that$3$ he 991:19,244[A ]| Long time remains in$4$ the uncertainty 991:19,245[A ]| Of his own life so$5#2$ Jacob stood till strength 991:19,246[A ]| Of virtue recollecting at the length 991:19,247[A ]| His scattered powers he undisturbed views 991:19,248[A ]| That$6#2$ beauty which$6#1$ with no$2$ less force subdues 991:19,249[A ]| His guarded heart than cannons which$6#1$ beat down 991:19,250[A ]| Before them all the ramparts of a town 991:19,251[A ]| Finding himself then vanquished in$4$ the field 991:19,252[A ]| That$3$ he the fort on$4$ generous terms might yield 991:19,253[A ]| To$4$ his fair foe he comes whose kind rays melt 991:19,254[A ]| His gentle temper nature's force he felt 991:19,255[A ]| Contending with the late intruder love 991:19,256[A ]| Which$6#1$ should more powerful in$4$ his bosom prove 991:19,257[A ]| He tells her who$6#1$ he is nor then forbears 991:19,258[A ]| To$9$ claime that$6#2$ dear relation with joy's tears 991:19,259[A ]| To$9$ serve her then he bends his chief desires 991:19,260[A ]| And love a more than human force inspires 991:19,261[A ]| His active limbs obey his eager mind 991:19,262[A ]| Nor can he any difficulty find 991:19,263[A ]| In$4$ that$3$ he undertakes for$4$ her the stone 991:19,264[A ]| Which$6#1$ all the shepherds did require alone 991:19,265[A ]| He rolls from the well's mouth, with drink relieves 991:19,266[A ]| Her thirsty flock, she thankfully receives 991:19,267[A ]| His service, to$4$ her father tells these things 991:19,268[A ]| Forth to$4$ his nephew Laban runs and brings 991:19,269[A ]| Him with glad welcome back Jacob obeyed 991:19,270[A ]| But with fair Rachell rather would have stayed 991:19,271[A ]| And put her tender lambs up$5$ in$4$ the fold 991:19,272[A ]| He cares no$2$ other object to$9$ behold 991:19,273[A ]| Yet must he now a new one entertain 991:19,274[A ]| Her elder sister who$6#1$ becomes a pain 991:19,275[A ]| At first sight to$4$ his eyes for$4$ hers were sore 991:19,276[A ]| And had that$6#2$ weakness no$2$ Art could restore 991:19,277[A ]| Unhappy maid they only could let in$5$ 991:19,278[A ]| Love's arrows but never shot them back again 991:19,279[A ]| She strove with studied courtesy and art 991:19,280[A ]| In$4$ time to$9$ circumvent the unyielding heart 991:19,281[A ]| But it was too late to$9$ attempt a fortress where 991:19,282[A ]| Her sister's conquering powers already were 991:19,283[A ]| Who$6#1$ never had that$6#2$ tempting beauty seen 991:19,284[A ]| With her sweet carriage might perhaps have been 991:19,285[A ]| At length allured but of that$6#2$ noble kind 991:19,286[A ]| Was Rachell's beauty that$3$ it showed a mind 991:19,287[A ]| Worthy of such a cabinet nature the mould 991:19,288[A ]| Formed to$4$ those gemlike virtues it should hold 991:19,289[A ]| Vigour and courage in$4$ her bright eyes shone 991:19,290[A ]| On$4$ the large forehead wisdom had a throne 991:19,291[A ]| A blushing modesty accompanied 991:19,292[A ]| With tempting sweetness did her motions guide 991:19,293[A ]| The opening of her lips was eloquence 991:19,294[A ]| They moved with such a taking innocence 991:19,295[A ]| In$4$ every smile was gentleness and truth 991:19,296[A ]| With that$6#2$ becoming joy that$6#1$ sets off youth 991:19,297[A ]| Perfection was her shape, her gestures grace 991:19,298[A ]| In$4$ every limb the beauty of a face 991:19,299[A ]| Her voice was harmony, her radiant hair 991:19,300[A ]| Chaste love's strong band, not lust's alluring snare