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04 - Paradise Lost - John Milton · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Book five, Part two, to whom the angel therefore what
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  Speaker 1: he gives, whose praise be ever sung to man in
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  Speaker 1: part spiritual, may of purest spirits be found no ingrateful
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  Speaker 1: food and food alike those pure intelligential substances require, as
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  Speaker 1: doth your rational, and both contain within them every lower
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  Speaker 1: faculty of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste, tasting,
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  Speaker 1: can coct, digest, assimilate, and corporeal to incorporeal turn, For
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  Speaker 1: know whatever was created needs to be sustained and fed
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  Speaker 1: of elements. The grosser feeds the purer earth, the sea. Earth,
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  Speaker 1: and the sea feed air. The air those fires ethereal
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  Speaker 1: and as lowest first the moon, whence, in her visage
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  Speaker 1: round those spots unpurged vapors not yet into her substance turned.
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  Speaker 1: Nor doth the Moon no nourishment excel from her moist
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  Speaker 1: continent to higher orbs. The Sun that light imparts to all,
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  Speaker 1: receives from all his elemental recompense in humid exhalations, and
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  Speaker 1: it even SUPs with the ocean. Though in heaven the
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  Speaker 1: trees of life ambrosial fruitage bear and binds yielded nectar.
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  Speaker 1: Though from off the boughs. Each morn we brush melephalous
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  Speaker 1: dews and find the ground covered with pearly grain. Yet
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  Speaker 1: God hath here varied his bounty so with new delights
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  Speaker 1: as may compare with heaven, and to taste, think not
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  Speaker 1: I shall be nice. So down they sat, and to
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  Speaker 1: their viends fell nor seemingly the angel, nor in mist
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  Speaker 1: the common gloss of theologians, but with keen despatch of
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  Speaker 1: real hunger and concoctive heat to transubstantiate what redounds transpires
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  Speaker 1: through spirits with ease. Nor wonder if by fire of
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  Speaker 1: sooty coal the empiric alchemist can turn, or holds it
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  Speaker 1: possible to turn medals of drosiest ore to perfect gold,
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  Speaker 1: as from the mind. Meanwhile, at table, Eve ministered naked,
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  Speaker 1: and their flowing cups with pleasant liquors crowned o innocence,
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  Speaker 1: deserving paradise. If ever, then then had the sons of
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  Speaker 1: God excuse to have been enamored at that sight? But
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  Speaker 1: in those hearts love unlibiddenness reigned, nor jealousy was understood
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  Speaker 1: the injured lover's hell. Thus, when with meats and drinks
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  Speaker 1: they had sufficed, not burdened nature, sudden mind arose in
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  Speaker 1: atom not to let the occasion pass given him by
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  Speaker 1: this great conference, to know of things above his world,
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  Speaker 1: and of their being, who dwell in Heaven, whose excellence
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  Speaker 1: he saw transcend his own so far, whose radiant forms,
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  Speaker 1: divine effulgence, whose high power so far exceeded human. And
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  Speaker 1: his weary speech Thus to the imperial Minister he framed,
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  Speaker 1: inhabitant with God, now know I well thy favor in
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  Speaker 1: this honor done to man, under whose lowly roof thou
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  Speaker 1: hast vouchsafe to enter, and these earthly fruits to taste,
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  Speaker 1: food not of angels, yet accepted, so as that more
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  Speaker 1: willingly thou couldst not seem at Heaven's feast to have fed.
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  Speaker 1: Yet what compare to whom the winged hierarch replied, O,
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  Speaker 1: Adam one Almighty, is from whom all things proceed, and
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  Speaker 1: up to him return, if not depraved from good created
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  Speaker 1: all such to perfection, one first matter, all endued with
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  Speaker 1: various forms, various degrees of substance, and in things that
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  Speaker 1: live of life, but more refined, more spiritous and pure,
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  Speaker 1: as near to him placed or near tending, each in
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  Speaker 1: their several active spheres, assign'd till body up to spirit
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  Speaker 1: work in bounds proportioned to each kind. So from the
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  Speaker 1: root springs lighter, the green stalk. From thence the leaves
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  Speaker 1: more airy, last, the bright consummate flower spirits odorous breathes,
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  Speaker 1: flowers and their fruit. Man's nourishment by gradual scale, sublime
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  Speaker 1: to vital spirits, aspire to animal, to intellectual, give both
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  Speaker 1: life and sense, fancy and understanding. Whence the soul reason receives,
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  Speaker 1: and reason is her being Discursive or intuitive. Discourse is
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  Speaker 1: oftenest yours. The latter most is ours, differing, but in
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  Speaker 1: degree of kind the same. Wonder not then what God
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  Speaker 1: for you saw good? If I refuse not but convert
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  Speaker 1: as you to proper substance. Time may come when men
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  Speaker 1: with angels may participate and find no inconvenient diet nor
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  Speaker 1: to light fare. And from these corporeal nutriments, perhaps your
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  Speaker 1: bodies may at last turn all to spirit, improved by
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  Speaker 1: tract of time, and winged ascend ethereal as we, or
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  Speaker 1: may it choice here or in heavenly paradises. Dwell if
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  Speaker 1: ye be found obedient and retain unalterably firm His love entire,
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  Speaker 1: whose progeny you are meanwhile enjoy your fill. What happens
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  Speaker 1: as this happy state can comprehend incapable of more, to
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  Speaker 1: whom the patriarch of mankind replied, O favorable spirit, propitious guest, Well,
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  Speaker 1: hast thou taught the way that might direct our knowledge?
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  Speaker 1: And the scale of nature set from center to circumference,
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  Speaker 1: whereon in contemplation of created things by steps we may
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  Speaker 1: ascend to God? But say what meant that caution? Joined?
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  Speaker 1: If ye be found obedient? Can we want obedience then
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  Speaker 1: to Him or possibly his love desert, who formed us
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  Speaker 1: from the dust and placed us here full to the
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  Speaker 1: utmost measure of what bliss human desires can seek or apprehend.
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  Speaker 1: To whom the angel son of Heaven and Earth, attend
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  Speaker 1: that thou art happy, O to God, that thou continuest
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  Speaker 1: such oh to thyself, that is, to thy obedience. Therein
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  Speaker 1: stand this was that caution given THEE be advised. God
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  Speaker 1: made THEE perfect, not immutable, and good. He may THEE,
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  Speaker 1: but to persevere He left it in thy power, ordained
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  Speaker 1: by thy will by nature, free, not o'er ruled by fate,
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  Speaker 1: inextricable or strict necessity. Our voluntary service he requires not
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  Speaker 1: are necessitated. Such with him finds no acceptance, nor can find.
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  Speaker 1: For how can hearts not free be tried, whether they
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  Speaker 1: serve willing or no, who will, but what they must
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  Speaker 1: by destiny, And can no other choose Myself and all
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  Speaker 1: the angelic hosts that stand in sight of God enthroned,
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  Speaker 1: our happy statehold as you yours, while our obedience holds
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  Speaker 1: on other surety. None freely we serve, because we freely love,
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  Speaker 1: as in our will to love or not, in this
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  Speaker 1: we stand or fall, And some are fallen to disobedience, fallen.
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  Speaker 1: And so from heaven to deepest hell, O fall from
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  Speaker 1: what high state of bliss into what woe? To whom
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  Speaker 1: our great progenitor. Thy words attentive and with more delighted
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  Speaker 1: ear divine instruct I have heard than when cherubic songs
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  Speaker 1: by night from the neighboring hills aerial music send. Nor
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  Speaker 1: knew I not to be both will and deed created free,
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  Speaker 1: yet that we shall never forget to love our maker
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  Speaker 1: and obey him whose commands single is yet so just
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  Speaker 1: My constant thoughts assured me, and still assure. Though what
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  Speaker 1: thou tellest hath passed in heaven. Some doubt within me move,
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  Speaker 1: But more desire to hear. If thou consent, the full
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  Speaker 1: relation which must needs be strange, worthy of sacred silence
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  Speaker 1: to be heard. And we have yet large day for
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  Speaker 1: Scarce the sun hath finished half his journey, and Scarce
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  Speaker 1: begins his other half in the great zone of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Thus Adam made request, and Raphael, after short pause, assenting,
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  Speaker 1: thus began high matter. Thou enjoinst me o prime of men,
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  Speaker 1: sad task and hard. For how shall I relate to
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  Speaker 1: human sense the invisible exploits of warring spirits? How without remorse,
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  Speaker 1: the ruin of so many any glorious once and perfect
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  Speaker 1: while they stood? How last unfold the secrets of another world,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not lawful to reveal, Yet for thy good this
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  Speaker 1: is dispensed, And what surmounts the reach of human sense,
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  Speaker 1: I shall delineate so by likening spiritual to corporeal forms,
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  Speaker 1: and may express them best. Though what if Earth be
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  Speaker 1: but the shadow of heaven, and things therein each to
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  Speaker 1: other like more than on earth? Is thought? As yet
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  Speaker 1: this world was not, and chaos wild reigned where these
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  Speaker 1: heavens now roll, where Earth now rests upon her center, poised,
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  Speaker 1: When on a day for time, though in eternity applied
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  Speaker 1: to motion measures all things durable by present, past and future.
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  Speaker 1: On such day as Heaven's great year, bring forth the
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  Speaker 1: Imperial host of Angels by imperial summons called innumerable before
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  Speaker 1: the almighties thrown forthwith from all the ends of Heaven
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  Speaker 1: appeared under their hierarchs and orders, bright ten thousand thousand ensigns,
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  Speaker 1: high advanced standards and gonfalons TwixT van and rear stream
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  Speaker 1: in the air, and four distinctions served of hierarchies of
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  Speaker 1: orders and degrees, or in their glittering tissues bear emblazoned
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  Speaker 1: holy memorials. Acts of zeal and love recorded eminent. Thus
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  Speaker 1: when in orbs of circuit inexpressible, they stood, or within
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  Speaker 1: orb the Father infinite, by whom in bliss imbosn sat
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  Speaker 1: the sun amidst from a flaming mount whose top brightness
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  Speaker 1: had made invisible. Thus spake here all ye angels, progeny
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  Speaker 1: of light, thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers. Hear my decree,
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  Speaker 1: which unrevoked shall stand this day. I have begot whom
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  Speaker 1: I declare my only son, and on this holy hill
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  Speaker 1: him have anointed, whom ye now behold at my right
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  Speaker 1: hand your head. I him a point, and by myself
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  Speaker 1: have sworn to him, shall bow all needes in heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and shall confess him Lord under his great vice regent
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  Speaker 1: reign abide united as one individual soul forever happy. Him
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  Speaker 1: who disobeys me disobeys breaks union, and that day, cast
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  Speaker 1: out from God and blessed vision, falls into utter darkness,
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  Speaker 1: deep engulfed, his place ordained, without redemption, without end. So
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  Speaker 1: spake the Omnipotent, and with his words all seemed well pleased,
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  Speaker 1: All seemed, but were not all That day, as other
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  Speaker 1: solemn days, they spent in song and dance about the
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  Speaker 1: sacred Hill, mystical dance, which, yonder Starry's sphere of planets
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  Speaker 1: and of fixed in all her wheels, resembles nearest mazes, intricate, eccentric,
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  Speaker 1: inter revolved, yet regular then most when most irregular they seem,
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  Speaker 1: And in their motions harmony divine so smooths her charming tones,
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  Speaker 1: that God's own ear listens, delighted. Evening approached, for we
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  Speaker 1: have also our evening and our morn. We ours for change, delectable,
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  Speaker 1: not need forthwith from dance to sweet repast, they turn desirous.
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  Speaker 1: All in circles as they stood. Tables are set, and
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  Speaker 1: on a sudden piled with angels. Food and rubied nectar
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  Speaker 1: flows in pearl, in diamond and massy gold, fruit of
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  Speaker 1: delicious vines, the growth of heaven they eat, they drink,
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  Speaker 1: and with perfection sweet are filled before the all bounteous King,
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  Speaker 1: who showered with copious hand, rejoicing in their joy. Now
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  Speaker 1: when ambrosial night with clouds exhaled from that high mount
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  Speaker 1: of God, whence light and shades spring both the face
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  Speaker 1: of brightest Heaven had chains to grateful twilight, for night
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  Speaker 1: comes not near in darker vale and roseate dews disposed
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  Speaker 1: all but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest wide
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  Speaker 1: over all the plain and wider far. Then all this
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  Speaker 1: globious earth, in plain outspread, Such are the quarts of God,
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  Speaker 1: the angelic throng, dispersed in bands and files. Their camp
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  Speaker 1: extend by living streams among the trees of life, pavilions
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  Speaker 1: numberless and sudden reared celestial tabernacles, where they slept, fanned
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  Speaker 1: with cool winds. Save those who, in their coarse, melodious
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  Speaker 1: hymns about the sovereign Throne alternate all night long, but
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  Speaker 1: not so waked satan, so call him now his former
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  Speaker 1: name is heard no more in heaven. He of the first,
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  Speaker 1: if not the first, archangel, great in power, in favor
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  Speaker 1: and pre eminence, yet fraught with envy against the Son
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  Speaker 1: of God that day, honored by his great father and
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  Speaker 1: proclaimed Messiah King anointed, could not bear through pride that sight,
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  Speaker 1: and thought himself impaired deep malice, thence conceiving in disdain.
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  Speaker 1: Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour, friendliest to
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  Speaker 1: sleep in silence, he resolved with all his legions to
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  Speaker 1: dislodge and leave unworshiped, unobeyed, the throne supreme, contemptuous, and
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  Speaker 1: his next to subordinate awakening. Thus to him in secret
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  Speaker 1: spake sleepest, thou companion, Dear, what sleep can close thy
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  Speaker 1: eyelids and rememberest what decree of yesterday so late hath
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  Speaker 1: passed the lips of heavens Almighty, Thou to me thy
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  Speaker 1: thoughts wast wont iy mind to thee was wont to
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  Speaker 1: impart both waking we were one? How then can now
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  Speaker 1: thy sleep descent? New laws thou seest, imposed new laws
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  Speaker 1: from him who reigns. New minds may raise in us,
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  Speaker 1: who serve new councils to debate what doubtful may ensue
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  Speaker 1: more in this place. To utter is not safe. Assemble
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  Speaker 1: thou of all those myriads which we lead the Chief,
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  Speaker 1: tell them that by command ere yet dim Knight, her
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  Speaker 1: shadowy cloud withdraws I am to haste, and all who
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  Speaker 1: under me their banner's wave homeward with flying marks, where
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  Speaker 1: we possess the quarters of the north, there to prepare
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  Speaker 1: fit entertainment to receive our King, the Great Messiah, and
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  Speaker 1: his new commands, who speedily through all the hierarchies, intends
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  Speaker 1: to pass triumphant and give laws. So spake the false
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  Speaker 1: Archangel and infused bad influence into the unwary breast of
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  Speaker 1: his associate. He together calls, or several, one by one,
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  Speaker 1: the Regent powers under him. Regent tells, as he was
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  Speaker 1: taught that the most high commanding now ere night, now
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  Speaker 1: ere dim Night, had disencumbered heaven. The great hierarchical standard
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  Speaker 1: was to move, tells the suggested cause, and casts between
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  Speaker 1: ambiguous words and jealousies to sound or taint integrity. But
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  Speaker 1: all obeyed the wonted signal and superior voice of their
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  Speaker 1: great potentate. For great indeed his name and high was
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  Speaker 1: his degree in Heaven. His countenance, as the morning star
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  Speaker 1: that guides the starry flock, allured them, and with lies
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  Speaker 1: drew after him the third part of Heaven's host. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the eternal eye, whose sight discerns Abtrusius, thoughts from forth
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  Speaker 1: his holy mount, and from within the golden lamps that
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  Speaker 1: burn nightly before him, saw without the light rebellion rising,
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  Speaker 1: saw in whom, how spread among the sons of morn,
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  Speaker 1: what multitudes were banded to oppose his high decree, And
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  Speaker 1: smiling to his only son, thus said Son, Thou in
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  Speaker 1: whom my glory I behold in full resplendence, e'er of
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  Speaker 1: all my might. Nearly it now concerns us to be
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  Speaker 1: sure of our omnipotence, and with what arms we mean
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  Speaker 1: to hold what anciently we claim of deity or emperor.
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  Speaker 1: Such a foe is rising, who intends to erect his
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  Speaker 1: throne equal to ours throughout the spacious north. Nor so
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  Speaker 1: content hath in his thought to try in battle what
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  Speaker 1: our power is or our right. Let us advise, and
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  Speaker 1: to this hazard draw with speed what force is left
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  Speaker 1: at all employ in our defense. Lest unawares we lose
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  Speaker 1: this our high place, our sanctuary, our hill, to whom
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  Speaker 1: the Sun, with calm aspect and clear lightning, divine, ineffable
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  Speaker 1: Serene made answer, Mighty Father, Thou thy foes justly hast
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  Speaker 1: in derision and secure laughest at their vain designs and tumults,
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  Speaker 1: vain matter to me of glory, whom their hate illustrates,
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  Speaker 1: when they shall see all regal power given me to
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  Speaker 1: quell their pride, and event know whether I be dexterous
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  Speaker 1: to subdue thy rebels, or be found the worst in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: So spake the Sun. But Satan, with his powers far
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  Speaker 1: was advanced on winged speed and host innumerable as the
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  Speaker 1: stars of night or stars of morning, dew drops which
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  Speaker 1: the Sun imperils with every leaf and every flower. Regions.
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  Speaker 1: They passed, the mighty regencies of Seraphim and potentates and
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  Speaker 1: thrones in their triple degrees, regions to which all thy dominion,
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  Speaker 1: Adam is no more than what this garden is to
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  Speaker 1: all the earth and all the sea. From one intire
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  Speaker 1: Globos stretched into Longitude, which, having passed at length into
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  Speaker 1: the limits of the north, they came, and Satan to
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  Speaker 1: his royal seat high on a hill, far blazing as
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  Speaker 1: a mount, raised on a mount, with pyramids and towers
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  Speaker 1: from diamond corries hewn and rocks of gold, the palace
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  Speaker 1: of Great Lucifer. So call that structure in the dialect
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  Speaker 1: of men interpreted, which not long after he effecting all
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  Speaker 1: equality with God in imitation of that mount, whereon Messiah
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  Speaker 1: was declared in sight of Heaven, the mountain of the
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  Speaker 1: congregation called for Thither he assembled all his train, pretending
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  Speaker 1: so commanded to consult about the great reception of their
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  Speaker 1: king thither to come, and with calumnous art of counterfeited truth,
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  Speaker 1: thus held their ears, thrones, dominations, princetems, virtues, powers, if
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  Speaker 1: these magnific titles yet remained not merely titular, since by
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  Speaker 1: decree another now hath to himself engrossed all power at us,
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  Speaker 1: eclipsed under the name of King anointed for whom all
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  Speaker 1: this haste of midnight march and hurried meeting here this
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  Speaker 1: only to consult, how we may best with what may
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  Speaker 1: be devised of honors knew receive him coming to receive
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  Speaker 1: from us knee tribute, yet unpaid prostration vile too much
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  Speaker 1: to one, but double, how endured to one and to
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  Speaker 1: his image now proclaimed. But what if better counsels might
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  Speaker 1: erect our minds to teach us to cast off this yoke?
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  Speaker 1: Will ye submit your nexts and choose to bend your
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  Speaker 1: supple knee? Ye will not? If I trust to know
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  Speaker 1: ye write, or if ye know yourselves natives and sons
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  Speaker 1: of heaven possessed before by none, And if not equal
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  Speaker 1: all yet free, equally free for orders and degrees, jar
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  Speaker 1: not with liberty but well consist. Who can, in reason,
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  Speaker 1: then or write, assume monarchy over such as live by
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  Speaker 1: right his equals, if in power and splendor less in
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  Speaker 1: freedom equal, or can introduce law and edict upon us
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  Speaker 1: who without law err not much less for this to
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  Speaker 1: be our lord, and look for adoration to the abuse
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  Speaker 1: of those imperial titles which assert our being ordained to govern,
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  Speaker 1: not to serve. Thus far, his bold discourse without control
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  Speaker 1: had audience when among the seraphim Abdael, then whom none
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  Speaker 1: with more zeal adored the deity and divine commands obeyed,
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  Speaker 1: stood up, and in a flame of zeal severe the
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  Speaker 1: current of his fury thus opposed O argument blasphemous, false,
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  Speaker 1: and proud word, which no ear ever to hear in
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  Speaker 1: heaven expected, least of all from thee ingrate. In place
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  Speaker 1: thyself so high above thy peers, canst thou, with impious obloquy,
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  Speaker 1: condemn the just decree of God pronounced and sworn that
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  Speaker 1: to his only son, by right endued with regal scepter,
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  Speaker 1: every soul in heaven shall bend the knee, And in
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  Speaker 1: that honour do confess him rightful king. Unjust, Thou sayest
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  Speaker 1: flatly unjust to bind with laws the free and equal
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  Speaker 1: over equals to let reign one over all with unsucceeded power.
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  Speaker 1: Shalt thou give law to God? Shalt thou dispute with
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  Speaker 1: him the points of liberty? Who made thee what thou art,
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  Speaker 1: and form the powers of heaven such as he pleased
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  Speaker 1: and circumscribed their being. Yet by experience taught we know
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  Speaker 1: how good, and of our good, and of our dignity,
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  Speaker 1: how provident he is, how far from thought to make
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  Speaker 1: us less bent, rather to exalt our happy state under
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  Speaker 1: one head more near united, but to grant it thee unjust,
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  Speaker 1: that equal over equals monarch reign thyself, Though great and glorious,
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  Speaker 1: dost thou count or all angelic nature joined in one
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  Speaker 1: equal to him, begotten son, by whom, as by his word,
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  Speaker 1: the Mighty Father made all things, even thee and all
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  Speaker 1: the spirits of heaven, by him created in their bright degrees,
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  Speaker 1: crowned them with glory, and to their glory named thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers,
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  Speaker 1: essential powers, Nor by his reign obscured, but more illustrious
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  Speaker 1: maid Since he the head one of our number, thus
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  Speaker 1: reduced becomes his laws our laws, all honor to him done,
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  Speaker 1: returns our own cease. Then this impious rage and tempt
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  Speaker 1: not these, but hasten to appease the incensed father and
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  Speaker 1: the incensed son. While pardon may be found in time besought,
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  Speaker 1: So spake the fervent angel, but his zeal none seconded,
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  Speaker 1: as out of season, judged or singular and rash, whereat
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  Speaker 1: rejoiced the apostate and more haughty, thus replied that we
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  Speaker 1: were formed. Then, sayest thou, and the work of secondary hands,
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  Speaker 1: by task transferred from father to his son. Strange point
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  Speaker 1: and new doctrine, which we would know whence learnt who
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  Speaker 1: saw when this creation was rememberest thou thy making, While
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  Speaker 1: the maker gave thee being. We know no time when
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  Speaker 1: we were not as now, no none before us self
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  Speaker 1: begot self raised by our own quickening power, when fatal
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  Speaker 1: course had circled his full orb. The birth mature of
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  Speaker 1: this our native heaven ethereal sons, our pucience is our own,
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  Speaker 1: our own right hand shall teach us highest deeds by proof.
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  Speaker 1: To try who is our equal. Then thou shalt behold
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  Speaker 1: whether by supplication we intend address and to begirt the
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  Speaker 1: almighty throne, beseeching or besieging this report. These tidings carry
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  Speaker 1: to the anointed King and fly ere evil intercept thy flight,
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  Speaker 1: he said, And as the sound of water's deep hoarse
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  Speaker 1: murmur echoed to his words, applause through the infinite host.
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  Speaker 1: Nor less for that the flaming Sarah, fearless, though alone
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  Speaker 1: encompassed round with foes, thus answered bold, O alienate from God,
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  Speaker 1: O spirit accursed, forsaken of all good. I see thy
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  Speaker 1: fall determined, and thy hapless crew in this perfidious fraud
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  Speaker 1: contagion spread both of thy crime and punishment. Henceforth no
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  Speaker 1: more be troubled how to quit the yoke of God's Messiah.
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  Speaker 1: Those indulgent laws will not now be vouchsafed. Other decrees
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  Speaker 1: against THEE are gone forth. Without recall, that golden scepter,
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  Speaker 1: which thou didst reject, is now an iron rod to
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  Speaker 1: bruise and break thy disobedience. Well thou didst advise, Yet
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  Speaker 1: not for thy advice or threats, I fly these wicked
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  Speaker 1: tentts devoted least the wrath, impendent, raging into sudden flame, distinguished,
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  Speaker 1: not for soon expect to feel his thunder on thy head,
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  Speaker 1: devouring fire? Then who created thee? Lamenting? Learn? When who
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  Speaker 1: can uncreate THEE? Thou shalt know? So spake the seraph
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  Speaker 1: abdel faithful. Found among the faithless, faithful, only he among
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  Speaker 1: innumerable false, unmoved, unshaken, unseduced, unterrified his loyalty. He kept
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  Speaker 1: his love, his zeal, nor numbers nor example with him
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  Speaker 1: wrought to swerve from truth or change his constant mind,
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  Speaker 1: though single from amidst them, forth he pass'd long way
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  Speaker 1: through hostile scorn, which he sustain'd superior nor of violent
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  Speaker 1: speared aught, And with retorted scorn his back, he turn'd
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  Speaker 1: on those proud towers to swift destruction, doom'd end of
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  Speaker 1: paradise lost. Book five, Part two,