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16 - Paradise Lost - John Milton · Philosophy and Faith

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Speaker 1: Book ten, Part two. He looked and saw the face
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Speaker 1: of things quite changed. The brazen throat of war had
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Speaker 1: ceased to roar, and now was turned to jollity and game,
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Speaker 1: to luxury and riot, feast and dance, marrying or prostituting
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Speaker 1: as befell, rape or adultery, where passing fair allured them.
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Speaker 1: Thence from cups to civil broils. At length a reverend
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Speaker 1: sire among them came, and of their doings great dislike,
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Speaker 1: declared and testified against their ways. He oft frequented their
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Speaker 1: assemblies where Soo met triumphs or festivals, and to them
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Speaker 1: preached conversion and repentance, as to souls in prison under
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Speaker 1: judgments imminent but all in vain, which, when he saw,
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Speaker 1: he ceased contending and removed his tents.
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Speaker 2: Far off.
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Speaker 1: Then from the mountain, timber Tall began to build a
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Speaker 1: vessel of huge bulk, measured by cubit length and breadth
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Speaker 1: and height, smeared round with pitch, and in the side
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Speaker 1: a door contrived, and of provisions laid in large for
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Speaker 1: man and beast. When lo, a wonder strange of every
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Speaker 1: beast and bird and insects small came sevens and pears
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Speaker 1: and entered in as taut their order. Last, the sire
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Speaker 1: and his three sons, with their four wives and God
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Speaker 1: made fast the door. Meanwhile, the south wind rose, and
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Speaker 1: with black wings wide hovering, all the clouds together drove
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Speaker 1: from under heaven the hills to their supply vapor and exhalation.
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Speaker 1: Dusk and moist set up a main, and now the
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Speaker 1: thickened sky, like a dark ceiling, stood down, rushed the
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Speaker 1: rain impetuous, and continued till the earth no more was seen.
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Speaker 1: The floating vessel swum up, lifted and secure with beaked prow,
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Speaker 1: rode tilting o'er the waves. All dwellings else flood overwhelmed,
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Speaker 1: and them with all their pomp deep under water, rolled sea,
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Speaker 1: covered sea, sea without shore, and in their palaces where
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Speaker 1: luxury late reigned, sea monsters whelped and stabled of mankind,
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Speaker 1: so numerous late, all left in one small bottom swum embarked.
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Speaker 2: How didst thou grieve?
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Speaker 1: Then adam to behold the end of thy offspring, And
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Speaker 1: so sad depopulation thee another flood of tears and sorrow,
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Speaker 1: a flood thee also drowned and sunk thee as thy
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Speaker 1: sons till gently reared by the angel on thy feet,
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Speaker 1: Thou stood'st at last, though comfortless, as when a father
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Speaker 1: mourns his children, all in view, destroyed at once and
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Speaker 1: scarce to the angel utters. Thus thy plain O visions
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Speaker 1: ill foreseen. Better had I lived ignorant of future, so
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Speaker 1: had borne my part of evil, only each day's lot
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Speaker 1: enough to bear those now that were dispensed the burden
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Speaker 1: of many ages on me, light at once by my foreknowledge,
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Speaker 1: gaining birth, abortive to torment me ere their being, with
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Speaker 1: thought that they must be let. No man seek henceforth
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Speaker 1: to be foretold what shall befall him or his children
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Speaker 1: evil he may be sure which neither his foreknowing can prevent,
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Speaker 1: and he the future evil shall no less in apprehension
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Speaker 1: than in substance, feel grievous to bear. But that care
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Speaker 1: now is past. Man is not whom to warn. Those
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Speaker 1: few escaped famine and anguish will at last consume wandering
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Speaker 1: and watery desert. I had hope, when violence was ceased
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Speaker 1: and war on earth all would have gone well. Then
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Speaker 1: peace would have crown'd with length of happy days the
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Speaker 1: race of man. But I was far deceived. For now
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Speaker 1: I see peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
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Speaker 1: How comes it thus unfold celestial guide, And whether here
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Speaker 1: the race of man will end to whom Thus, Michael,
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Speaker 1: those whom thou last sawest in triumph and luxurious wealth,
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Speaker 1: are they first seen in acts of prowess, eminent and
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Speaker 1: great exploits, but of true virtue void, Who, having spilt
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Speaker 1: much blood and done much waste, subduing nations, and achieved
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Speaker 1: thereby fame in the world, high titles and rich prey,
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Speaker 1: shall change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth, surfeit
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Speaker 1: and lust, till wantonness and pride raise out of friendship
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Speaker 1: hostile deeds in peace. The conquer'd also and enslaved by war, shall,
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Speaker 1: with their freedom lost, all virtue lose, and fear of
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Speaker 1: God from whom the piety feigned in sharp contest of battle,
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Speaker 1: found no aid against invaders.
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Speaker 2: Therefore cool'd in zeal.
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Speaker 1: Thenceforth shall practice how to live, secure, worldly, or dissolute,
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Speaker 1: on what the Lord shall leave them to enjoy. For
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Speaker 1: the earth shall bear more than enough that temperance may
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Speaker 1: be tried. So all shall turn degenerate all depraved justice
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Speaker 1: and temperance, truth and faith for God one man except
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Speaker 1: the only son of light. In a dark age against
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Speaker 1: example good, against allurement, custom, and a world offended, fearless
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Speaker 1: of reproach and scorn or violence. He of their wicked
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Speaker 1: ways shall them admonish, and before them set the paths
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Speaker 1: of righteousness, how much more safe and full of peace,
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Speaker 1: denouncing wrath to come on their impenitence, and shall return
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Speaker 1: of them derided, But of God observ'd. The one just
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Speaker 1: man alive by his command, shall build a wondrous arc,
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Speaker 1: as thou beheldest, to save himself and household from amidst
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Speaker 1: a world devote to universal rack. No sooner he, with
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Speaker 1: them of man and beast select for life, shall in
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Speaker 1: the ark be lodged and shelter'd round. But all the
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Speaker 1: cataracts of Heaven set open on the earth, shall pour
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Speaker 1: rain day and night, all fountains of the deep broke up,
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Speaker 1: shall heave the ocean to usurp beyond all bounds, till
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Speaker 1: inundation rise above the highest hills. Then shall this mount
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Speaker 1: of Paradise, by might of waves, be moved out of
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Speaker 1: his place, push'd by the horned flood, with all his
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Speaker 1: verdure spoil'd, and trees adrift down the great river to
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Speaker 1: the opening gulf, and there take root an island salt,
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Speaker 1: and beare the haunt of seals and orcs, and sea
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Speaker 1: muse clang to teach thee that God attributes to place
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Speaker 1: no sanctity, if none be thither brought by men who
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Speaker 1: there frequent or therein dwell. And now what further shall ensue?
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Speaker 1: Behold he looked and saw the ark hull on the flood,
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Speaker 1: which now abated, for the clouds were fled, driven by
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Speaker 1: a keen north wind that blowing dry wrinkled the face
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Speaker 1: of deluge as decayed, and the clear sun on his
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Speaker 1: wide watery glass glazed hot, and of the fresh wave
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Speaker 1: largely drew as after thirst, which made their flowing shrink
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Speaker 1: from standing lake to tripping ebb that stole with soft
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Speaker 1: foot toward the deep, who now had stopped his sluices
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Speaker 1: as the heaven his windows shut. The ark no more
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Speaker 1: now floats, but seems to ground fast on the top
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Speaker 1: of some high mountain, fixed, and now the tops of
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Speaker 1: hills as rocks appear with clamor thence the rapid currents
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Speaker 1: drive toward the retreating sea, their furious tide forthwith from
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Speaker 1: out the ark, a raven flies after him. The surer messenger,
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Speaker 1: a dove, sent forth once and again to spy green
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Speaker 1: tree or ground, whereon his foot may light. The second time,
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Speaker 1: returning in his bill an olive leaf, he brings pacific
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Speaker 1: sign anon. Dry ground appears, and from his ark the
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Speaker 1: ancient Sire descends with all his train, then with uplifted
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Speaker 1: hands and eyes devout, grateful to Heaven. O'er his head
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Speaker 1: beholds a dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow
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Speaker 1: conspicuous with three lifted colors, gay betokening peace from God
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Speaker 1: and covenant new whereat. The heart of Adam erst so
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Speaker 1: sad greatly rejoiced, and thus his joy brought forth O Thou,
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Speaker 1: that future things canst rep present as present, Heavenly instructor,
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Speaker 1: I revive at this last sight, assured that man shall
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Speaker 1: live with all the creatures and their seed preserve. Far
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Speaker 1: less I now lament for one whole world of wicked
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Speaker 1: sons destroyed, than I rejoice for one man found so
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Speaker 1: perfect and so just, that God vouchsafes to raise another
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Speaker 1: world from him and all his anger to forget. But say,
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Speaker 1: what mean these colored streaks in heaven distended as the
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Speaker 1: brow of God appeased, or serve they as a flurry
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Speaker 1: verge of bind the florid skirts of that same watery cloud,
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Speaker 1: least it again dissolve and shower the earth to whom
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Speaker 1: the archangel dexterously Thou aimest, So willingly doth God remit
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Speaker 1: his ire, though late repenting him of man depraved, grieved
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Speaker 1: at his heart when looking down he saw the whole
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Speaker 1: earth filled with violence, and all flesh corrupting each their way.
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Speaker 1: Yet those removed such grace shall one just man find
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Speaker 1: in his sight that he relents not to blot out mankind,
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Speaker 1: and makes a covenant, never to destroy the earth again
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Speaker 1: by flood, nor let the sea surpass his bounds, nor
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Speaker 1: brain to drown the world with man therein or beast.
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Speaker 1: But when he brings over the earth a cloud, will
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Speaker 1: therein set his triple colored bow, wherein to look and
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Speaker 1: call to mind his covenant. Day and night, seed, time
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Speaker 1: and harvest, heat and hoary frost shall hold their course
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Speaker 1: till fire purge all things new, both heaven and earth,
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Speaker 1: wherein the just shall dwell. Thus thou hast seen one
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Speaker 1: world begin and end, and man, as from a second stock,
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Speaker 1: proceed much thou hast yet to see, But I perceive
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Speaker 1: thy mortal sight to fail. Objects divine must needs impair
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Speaker 1: and weary human sense. Henceforth, what is to come, I
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Speaker 1: will relate thou. Therefore give due audience and attend this
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Speaker 1: second sours of man, while yet but few, and while
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Speaker 1: the dread of judgment past remains fresh in their minds.
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Speaker 1: Fearing the deity, with some regard to what is just
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Speaker 1: and right, shall lead their lives and multiply apace, labouring
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Speaker 1: the soil and reaping prolenteous crop, corn, wine and oil,
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Speaker 1: and from the herd or flock oft sacrificing bullock, lamb
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Speaker 1: or kid, with large wine offerings poured and sacred feast,
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Speaker 1: shall spend their days enjoy unblamed, and dwell long time
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Speaker 1: in peace by families and tribes under paternal rule, till
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Speaker 1: one shall rise of proud, ambitious heart, who not content
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Speaker 1: with fair equality fraternal state, will arrogate dominion undeserved over
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Speaker 1: his brethren, and quite dispossesses concord and law of nature
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Speaker 1: from the earth. Hunting and men not beasts, shall be
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Speaker 1: his head game with war and hostile snares such as
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Speaker 1: refuse subjection to his empire, Tyrannus, a mighty hunter. Thence
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Speaker 1: he shall be styled before the Lord as in despite
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Speaker 1: of heaven or from heaven, claiming second sovereignty, and from
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Speaker 1: rebellion shall derive his name. Though of rebellion others he accuse.
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Speaker 2: He with a crew whom.
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Speaker 1: Like ambition, joins with him or under him to Tyrannize.
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Speaker 1: Marching from Eden toward the west, shall find the plain
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Speaker 1: wherein a black bitumous gurge boils out from underground the
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Speaker 1: mouth of Hell, of brick, and of that stuff they
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Speaker 1: cast to build a city in tower whose top may
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Speaker 1: reach the hen and get themselves a name. Least far
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Speaker 1: dispersed in foreign lands, their memory be lost, regardless whether
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Speaker 1: good or evil fame.
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Speaker 2: But God, who.
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Speaker 1: Oft descends to visit men unseen, and through their habitations,
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Speaker 1: walks to mark their des them beholding, soon comes down
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Speaker 1: to see their city ere the tower obstruct heaven towers,
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Speaker 1: and in derision, sets upon their tongues a various spirit
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Speaker 1: to raise quite out their native language, and instead to
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Speaker 1: sow a jangling noise of words unknown. Forthwith a hideous
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Speaker 1: gable arises loud among the builders. Each to other calls
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Speaker 1: not understood till horse and all in rage as mocked
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Speaker 1: they storm. Great laughter was in heaven and looking down
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Speaker 1: to see the hubbub strange and hear the din Thus
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Speaker 1: was the building left ridiculous, and the work confusion named.
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Speaker 2: Whereto.
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Speaker 1: Thus Adam fatherly displeased, Oh, exorable son, so to aspire
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Speaker 1: above his brethren to himself, affirming authority usurped from God
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Speaker 1: not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, foul
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Speaker 1: dominion absolute, that right we hold by his donation. But
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Speaker 1: man over men he made not lord such title to himself,
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Speaker 1: reserving human left from human free. But this usurper his encroachment.
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Speaker 1: Proud stays not on man to God his tower, and
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Speaker 1: tend siege and defiance, wretched man. What food will he
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Speaker 1: convey up thither to sustain himself and his rash army,
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Speaker 1: where then thin air above the clouds will pine his
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Speaker 1: entrails gross and famish him of breath, if not of bread.
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Speaker 2: To whom. Thus, Michael.
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Speaker 1: Justly thou abhorrest that son, who, on the quiet state
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Speaker 1: of men, such trouble brought, affecting to subdue rational liberty.
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Speaker 1: Yet know withal since thy original lapse true liberty is lost,
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Speaker 1: which always with right reason dwells twined, and from her
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Speaker 1: hath no individual being reason in man obscured or not obeyed. Immediately,
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Speaker 1: in ordinate desires and upstart passions catch the government from
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Speaker 1: reason and to servitude reduce man till then free. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: since he permits within himself unworthy powers to reign over
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Speaker 1: free reason, God in judgment just subjects him from without
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Speaker 1: to violent lords, who, oft as undeservedly enthrall his outward freedom.
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Speaker 1: Tyranny must be, though to the tyrant thereby no excuse.
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Speaker 1: Yet sometimes nations will decline so low from virtue, which
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Speaker 1: is reason, that no wrong but justice, and some fatal
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Speaker 1: curse annext deprives them of their outward liberty, their inward lost.
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Speaker 1: Witness the irreverent son of him who built the Ark,
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Speaker 1: who for the shame done to his father, heard this
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Speaker 1: heavenly curse, servant of servants on his viteous race. Thus
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Speaker 1: will this latter as the former world, still tend from
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Speaker 1: bad to worse, till God, at last, wearied by their iniquities,
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Speaker 1: withdraw his presence from among them, and avert his holy eyes,
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Speaker 1: resolving from thenceforth to leave them to their own polluted ways,
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Speaker 1: and one peculiar nation to select from the rest of
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Speaker 1: whom to be invoked, a nation from one faithful man
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Speaker 1: to spring him on this side. Euphrates, yet residing bred
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Speaker 1: up in idle worship, O that men canst Thou believe
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Speaker 1: should be so stupid grown. While yet the patriarch lived,
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Speaker 1: who scaped the flood, as to forsake the living God
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Speaker 1: and fall to worship their own work in wood and
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Speaker 1: stone for gods. Yet him, God the most High, vouchsafes
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Speaker 1: to call by vision from his father's house his kindred
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Speaker 1: and false gods into a land which he shall show him,
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Speaker 1: and from him will raise a mighty nation, And upon
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Speaker 1: him shawer his benediction, so that in his seed all
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Speaker 1: nations shall be blessed. Her obeys, not knowing to what land,
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Speaker 1: yet firm believes I see him, But thou canst not.
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Speaker 2: With what faith.
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Speaker 1: He leaves his gods, his friends, and native soil ur
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Speaker 1: of Chaldea, passing now the ford to Haran. After him,
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Speaker 1: a cumbrious train of herds and flocks and numerous servitude,
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Speaker 1: not wandering poor, but trusting all his wealth with God
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Speaker 1: who called him in a land unknown Canaan. He now attains.
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Speaker 1: I see his tents pitched about Shachem and the neighboring
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Speaker 1: plain of Moreb. There By promise he receives gift to
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Speaker 1: his progeny of all that land from Haymath northward to
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Speaker 1: the desert south. Things by their names I call, though
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Speaker 1: yet unnamed, from Hormone east to the great western Sea,
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Speaker 1: Mount Hermone yonder sea. Each place behold in prospect as
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Speaker 1: I point them on the shore Mount Carmel. Here the
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Speaker 1: double fountain stream Jordan true limit eastward. But his son
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Speaker 1: shall dwell to Sinnear, that long ridge of hills. This
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Speaker 1: ponder that all nations of the earth shall in his
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Speaker 1: seed be blessed. By that seed is meant thy great deliverer,
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Speaker 1: who shall bruise the serpent's head, whereof to thee Anon
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Speaker 1: plainer shall.
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Speaker 2: Be revealed.
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Speaker 1: This patriarch blessed, whom faithful Abraham due time shall call
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Speaker 1: a son, and of his son a grandchild leaves like
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Speaker 1: him in faith, in wisdom and renown. The grandchild, with
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Speaker 1: twelve sons increased, departs from Canaan to a land hereafter
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Speaker 1: called Egypt, divided by the river Nile see where it
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Speaker 1: flows disgorging at seven miles into the sea to sojourn
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Speaker 1: in that land. He comes invited by a younger son
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Speaker 1: in time of Dearth, a son whose worthy deeds raise
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Speaker 1: him to be the second in that realm of Pharaoh.
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Speaker 1: There he dies and leaves his race, growing into a nation,
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Speaker 1: and now grown suspected to a sequent king, who seeks
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Speaker 1: to stop their overgrowth as inmate guests too numerous. Whence
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Speaker 1: of guests, he makes them slaves inhospitably and kills their
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Speaker 1: infant males till by two brethren. Those two brethren call
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Speaker 1: Moses and Aaron, sent from God to claim his people
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Speaker 1: from enthrallment. They return with glory and spoil back to
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Speaker 1: their promised land. But first the lawless tyrant, who denies
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Speaker 1: to know their God or message to regard, must be
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Speaker 1: compelled by signs and judgments dire to blood unshed. The
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Speaker 1: rivers must be turned, frogs, lice, and flies. Must all
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Speaker 1: his palace fill with loathed intrusion, and fill all the land.
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Speaker 1: His cattle must of rot and morin die, botches and blames.
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Speaker 1: Must all his flesh am boss, and all his people
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Speaker 1: thunder mixed with hail, hail, mix'd with fire, must rend
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Speaker 1: the Egyptian sky and wheel on the earth, devouring where
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Speaker 1: it rolls what it devours, not herb or fruit or grain.
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Speaker 1: A darksome cloud of locusts swarming down must eat, and
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Speaker 1: on the ground leave nothing. Green darkness must overshadow all
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Speaker 1: his bounds, palpable darkness, and blot out three days last
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Speaker 1: with one midnight stroke, all the first born of Egypt
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Speaker 1: must lie dead. Thus, with ten wounds, this river dragon,
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Speaker 1: tamed at length, submits to let his sojourners depart, and
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Speaker 1: oft humbles his stubborn heart, but still as ice more
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Speaker 1: hardened after thaw, till in his rage pursuing whom he
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Speaker 1: late dismissed, the sea swallows him with his host, But
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Speaker 1: them lets pass as on dry land between two crystal walls,
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Speaker 1: awed by the rod of Moses, so to stand divided
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Speaker 1: till his rescue gain their shore. Such wondrous power God
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Speaker 1: to his saint shall lend though present to his angel,
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Speaker 1: who shall go before them in a cloud and pillar
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Speaker 1: of fire, to guide them in their journey and remove
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Speaker 1: behind them. While the Obduran king pursues all night, he
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Speaker 1: will pursue, but his approach darkness defends between till morning.
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Speaker 2: Watch.
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Speaker 1: Then through the fiery pillar and the cloud, God looking
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Speaker 1: forth will trouble all his host and craze their jariot wheels.
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Speaker 1: Then by command Moses once more his potent rod extends
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Speaker 1: over the sea, and the sea his rod obeys on
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Speaker 1: their embattled ranks. The waves return and overwhelm their war.
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Speaker 1: The race elects safe towards Canaan from the shore, advance
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Speaker 1: through the wild desert, not the readiest way, least entering
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Speaker 1: on the Canaanite alarmed war terrify them an expert and
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Speaker 1: fear return them back to eat Egypt, choosing rather inglorious
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Speaker 1: life with servitude for life to noble and ignoble is
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Speaker 1: more sweet, untrained in arms, where rashness leads not on
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Speaker 1: this also shall they gain by their delay in the
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Speaker 1: wide wilderness. There they shall found their government and their
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Speaker 1: great Senate. Choose through the twelve tribes to rule by
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Speaker 1: laws ordained God from the Mount of Sinai, whose gray
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Speaker 1: top shall tremble, He descending will himself in thunder lightning
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Speaker 1: and loud trumpets sound ordain them laws part such as
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Speaker 1: appertain to civil justice, part religious rites of sacrifice, informing
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Speaker 1: them by types and shadows of that destined seed to
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Speaker 1: bruise the serpent, by what means he shall achieve mankind's deliverance.
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Speaker 1: But the voice of God to mortal ear is dreadful.
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Speaker 1: They beseech that Moses might report to them his will,
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Speaker 1: and terror cease he grants them their desire instructed that
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Speaker 1: to God is no ab access without mediator, whose high
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Speaker 1: office now Moses in figure bears to introduce one greater
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Speaker 1: of whose day he shall foretell, and all the prophets
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Speaker 1: in their age the times of great Messiah shall sing
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Speaker 1: thus laws and right established. Such delight hath God in
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Speaker 1: man obedient to his will, that he vouchsafes among them
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Speaker 1: to set up his tabernacle, the Holy One with mortal
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Speaker 1: men to dwell by his prescript. A sanctuary is framed
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Speaker 1: of cedar, overlaid with gold, therein an ark, and in
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Speaker 1: this ark his testimony the records of his covenant. Over
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Speaker 1: these a mercy seat of gold, between the wings of
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Speaker 1: two bright Carabim. Before him burn seven lamps, as in
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Speaker 1: a zodiac representing the heavenly fires. Over the tent, a
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Speaker 1: cloud shall rest by day, a fiery gleam by night,
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Speaker 1: save when they journey, and at length they come, conducted
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Speaker 1: by his angel to the land promise to Abraham and
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Speaker 1: his seed. The rest were long to tell how many
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Speaker 1: Sun in Gibeon stand and thou moon in the Vale
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Speaker 1: of Agelan till Israel overcome. So call the third from Abraham,
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Speaker 1: shall thus Canaan win. Here Adam interposed O sent from
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Speaker 1: heaven enlightener of my darkness. Gracious things thou hast revealed,
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Speaker 1: those chiefly which concern just Abraham at his seed. Now
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Speaker 1: first I find my eyes true opening, and my heart
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Speaker 1: much eased. Erewhile perplexed with thoughts what would become of
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Speaker 1: me and all mankind? But now I see his day
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Speaker 1: in whom all nations shall be blessed favor unmerited by me,
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Speaker 1: who saw forbidden knowledge by forbidden means. And yet I
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Speaker 1: apprehend not why to those among whom God will deign
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Speaker 1: to dwell on earth, so many and so various laws
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Speaker 1: are given, so many laws argue, so many sin among them.
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Speaker 1: How can God with such reside to whom Thus Michael
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Speaker 1: doubt not, but that sin will reign among them as
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Speaker 1: of thee begot. And therefore was law given them to
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Speaker 1: evince their natural pravity by stirring up sin against law,
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Speaker 1: to fight that. When they see law can discover sin,
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Speaker 1: but not remove save by those shadowy expiations weak the
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Speaker 1: blood of bulls and goats, they may conclude some blood
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Speaker 1: more precious must be paid for man, just for unjust,
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Speaker 1: that in such righteousness to them, by faith imputed, they
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Speaker 1: may find justification toward God and peace of conscience, which
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Speaker 1: the law by ceremonies cannot appease, nor man the moral
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Speaker 1: part perform, and not performing cannot live. So law appears imperfect,
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Speaker 1: and but given with purpose to resign them in full
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Speaker 1: time up to a better covenant discipline from shadowy types
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Speaker 1: of truth, from flesh to spirit, from imposition of strict
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Speaker 1: to filial works of law to works of faith. And
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Speaker 1: therefore shall not Moses, though of God highly beloved being,
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Speaker 1: but the minister of law his people into canaan lead.
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Speaker 1: But Joshua, whom the gentiles Jesus call his name and
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Speaker 1: office bearing, who shall quell the adversaries, separate and bring
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Speaker 1: back through the world's wilderness long wandered man safe to
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Speaker 1: eternal paradise of rest. Meanwhile, they, in their earthly canaan
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Speaker 1: placed long time, shall dwell and prosper. But when sins
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Speaker 1: national interrupt their public peace, provoking God to raise them
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Speaker 1: enemies from whom as oft he saves them penitent by
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Speaker 1: judges first and then under kings, of whom the second
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Speaker 1: both for piety renown'd and pucient deeds. A promise shall receive, irrevocable,
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Speaker 1: that his regal throne for ever shall endure. The like
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Speaker 1: shall sing all prophecy that of the royal stock of David.
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Speaker 1: So I name this king shall rise a sun the
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Speaker 1: woman seed to thee foretold foretold to Abraham, as in
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Speaker 1: whom shall trust all nations, and to kings foretold of
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Speaker 1: kings the last, for of his reign shall be no end,
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Speaker 1: but first a long succession must ensue, and his next
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Speaker 1: son for wealth and wisdom fam'd the clouded ark of God.
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Speaker 1: Till then intense wandering shall in a glorious temple enshrine,
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Speaker 1: such follow him as shall be register'd part good, part
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Speaker 1: bad of bad. The longer rool, whose foul idolatries and
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Speaker 1: other faults heaped to the popular sum, will so incense
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Speaker 1: God as to leave them and expose their land, their city,
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Speaker 1: his temple, and his holy ark, with all his sacred things,
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Speaker 1: a scorn and prey to that proud city whose high
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Speaker 1: walls thou sawest left in confusion, Babylon. Thence called there
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Speaker 1: in captivity. He lets them dwell the space of seventy years,
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Speaker 1: then brings them back, remembering mercy and his covenant sworn
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Speaker 1: to David, established as the days of Heaven. Returned from
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Speaker 1: Babylon by leave of kings their lords, whom God disposed
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Speaker 1: the house of God, they first re edify, and for
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Speaker 1: a while in mean estate live moderate till grown in
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Speaker 1: wealth and multitude factius, they grow, but first among the
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Speaker 1: priest's dissension springs, men who attend the altar, and should
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Speaker 1: most day ever peace, their strife pollution brings upon the
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Speaker 1: temple itself. At last they seize the scepter and regard
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Speaker 1: not David's sons, then lose it to a stranger that
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Speaker 1: the true anointed King Messiah might be borne barred of
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Speaker 1: his right. Yet at his birth, a star unseen before
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Speaker 1: in heaven proclaims him come and guides the Eastern sages
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Speaker 1: who inquire his place to offer incense, mrh and gold.
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Speaker 1: His place of birth, a solemn angel tells to simple
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Speaker 1: shepherds keeping watch by night. They gladly thither haste, and
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Speaker 1: by a choir of squadroned angels hear his carol sung
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Speaker 1: a virgin is his mother, but his sire the power
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Speaker 1: of the Most High. He shall ascend the throne hereditary,
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Speaker 1: and bound his reign with Earth's wide bounds, his glory
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Speaker 1: with the heavens. He ceased, discerning Adam with such joy surcharged,
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Speaker 1: as had like grief beendued in tears, without the vent
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Speaker 1: of words, which these he breathed. O, Prophet of glad tidings,
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Speaker 1: finisher of utmost hope, Now clear, I understand what oft
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Speaker 1: my steadiest thoughts have searched in vain, Why our great
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Speaker 1: expectation should be called the seed of woman, virgin mother.
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Speaker 1: Hail high in the love of Heaven. Yet from my
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Speaker 1: loins thou shalt proceed and from the womb the son
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Speaker 1: of God most High. So God with man unites needs.
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Speaker 1: Must the serpent now his capital bruise expect with mortal pain.
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Speaker 1: Say where and when their fight, what stroke shall bruise
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Speaker 1: the victor's heal to whom Thus Michael dream not of
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Speaker 1: their fight as of a duel, or the local wounds
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Speaker 1: of head or heal. Not therefore joins the sun manhood
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Speaker 1: to Godhead with more strength to foil thy enemy. Nor
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Speaker 1: so is overcome Satan, whose fall from heaven a deadlier
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Speaker 1: bruise disabled not to give thee thy death wound, which
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Speaker 1: he who comes thy savior shall recure, not by destroying Satan,
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Speaker 1: but his works in thee and in thy seed. Nor
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Speaker 1: can this be but by fulfilling that which thou didst want,
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Speaker 1: obedience to the law of God imposed on penalty of death,
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Speaker 1: and suffering death the penalty of thy transgression. Do and
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Speaker 1: do to theirs which out of thine will grow. So
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Speaker 1: only can high justice rest a paid the law of
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Speaker 1: God exact he shall fulfill both by obedience and by love.
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Speaker 1: Though love alone fulfill the law. Thy punishment he shall
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Speaker 1: endure by coming in the flesh to a reproachful life
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Speaker 1: and cursed death, proclaiming life to all who shall believe
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Speaker 1: in his redemption, and that his obedience imputed becomes theirs
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Speaker 1: by faith his merits to save them, not their own,
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Speaker 1: though legal works. For this he shall live, hated, be blasphemed,
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Speaker 1: seized on by force, judged and to death, condemned, a
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Speaker 1: shameful and a cursed, nailed to the cross by his
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Speaker 1: own nation, slain for bringing life. But to the cross
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Speaker 1: he nails thine enemies, the law that is against thee
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Speaker 1: and the sins of all mankind with him there crucified,
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Speaker 1: never to hurt them more who rightly trust in his satisfaction.
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Speaker 1: So he dies, but soon revives death over him. No
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Speaker 1: power shall long usurp ere. The third dawning light returned
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Speaker 1: the stars of morn, shall see him rise out of
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Speaker 1: his grave, fresh as the dawning light. Thy ransom paid
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Speaker 1: which man from death redeems his death for man as
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Speaker 1: many as offered life neglect not, and the benefit embrace
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Speaker 1: by faith not void of works. This godlike act annuls
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Speaker 1: thy doom, the death thou shouldst have died in sin,
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Speaker 1: forever lost from life. This act shall bruise the head
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Speaker 1: of Satan, crush his strength, defeating sin and death his
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Speaker 1: two main arms, and fix far deeper in his head
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Speaker 1: their stings. When temporal death shall bruise the victor's heel
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Speaker 1: or theirs, whom he redeems a death like sleep, a
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Speaker 1: gentle wafting to immortal life. Nor after resurrection shall he
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Speaker 1: stay longer on earth than certain times to appear to
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Speaker 1: his disciples. Men who in his life still followed him
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Speaker 1: to them, shall leave in charge to teach all nations
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Speaker 1: what of him they learned, and his salvation. Them who
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Speaker 1: shall believe, baptizing in the profluent stream, the sign of
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Speaker 1: washing them from guilt of sin to life pure and
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Speaker 1: in mind prepared, if so befall for death like that
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Speaker 1: which the Redeemer died, all nations they shall teach. For
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Speaker 1: from that day, not only to the sons of abe
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Speaker 1: Abraham's loins, salvation shall be preached, but to the sons
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Speaker 1: of Abraham's faith wherever through the world, so in his
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Speaker 1: seed all nations shall be blessed. Then to the heaven
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Speaker 1: of heavens, he shall ascend with victory, triumphing through the
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Speaker 1: air over his foes, and thine there shall surprise the
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Speaker 1: serpent prince of Air, and drag in chains through all
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Speaker 1: his realm, and there confounded leave, then enter into glory
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Speaker 1: and resume his seat at God's right hand, exalted high
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Speaker 1: above all names in heaven. And thence shall come when
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Speaker 1: this world's dissolution shall be ripe with glory and power
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Speaker 1: to judge both quick and dead, to judge the unfaithful dead,
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Speaker 1: but to reward his faithful and receive them into bliss,
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Speaker 1: whether in heaven or earth. For then and earth shall
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Speaker 1: be paradise, far happier placed than this of Eden, and
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Speaker 1: far happier days. So spake the archangel might then paused
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Speaker 1: as at the world's great period, and our sire replete
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Speaker 1: with joy and wonder Thus replied, O Goodness, infinite goodness, immense,
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Speaker 1: that all this good of evil shall produce, and evil
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Speaker 1: turn to good more wonderful than that which by creation
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Speaker 1: first brought forth light out of darkness. Full of doubt,
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Speaker 1: I stand whether I should repent me now of sin
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Speaker 1: by me done and occasioned, or rejoice much more That
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Speaker 1: much more good therefore shall spring to God, more glory,
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Speaker 1: more good will to men from God, and over wrath
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Speaker 1: grace shall abound. But say, if our deliverer up to
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Speaker 1: heaven must reascend, what shall betide the few his faithful
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Speaker 1: left among the unfaithful herd the enemies of truth? Who
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Speaker 1: then shall guide his people who defend? Will they not
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Speaker 1: deal worse with his followers than with him they dealt?
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Speaker 1: Be sure they will, said the angel. But from heaven
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Speaker 1: he to his own a comforter, shall send the promise
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Speaker 1: of the Father, who shall dwell his spirit within him,
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Speaker 1: And the law of faith, working through love upon their hearts,
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Speaker 1: shall write to guide them in all truth, and also
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Speaker 1: arm with spiritual armor, able to resist Satan's assaults and
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Speaker 1: quench the fiery darts what man can do against them,
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Speaker 1: not afraid though to the death, against such cruelties, with
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Speaker 1: inward consolations recompensed and oft support it, so as shall
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Speaker 1: maze their proudest persecutors.
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Speaker 2: For the Spirit powered first.
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Speaker 1: On his apostles, whom he sends to evangelize the nations.
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Speaker 1: Then on all baptized shall them with wondrous gifts, due
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Speaker 1: to speak all tongues and to do all miracles, as
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Speaker 1: did their Lord before them. Thus they win great numbers
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Speaker 1: of each nation to receive with joy the tidings brought
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Speaker 1: from Heaven, at length, their ministry performed, and race well run,
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Speaker 1: their doctrine and their story written. Left they die, But
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Speaker 1: in their room, as they foreworn, wolves shall succeed for teachers,
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Speaker 1: grievous wolves, who all the sacred mysteries of heaven to
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Speaker 1: their own vile advantages, shall turn of lucre and ambition,
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Speaker 1: and the truth with superstitions and traditions taint left only
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Speaker 1: in those written records pure though not but by the
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Speaker 1: spirit understood, then shall they seek to avail themselves of names, places,
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Speaker 1: and titles, and with these to join secular power, though
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Speaker 1: feigning still to act by spiritual to themselves, appropriating the
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Speaker 1: spirit of God promised alike and given to all believers.
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Speaker 1: And from that pretense spiritual laws by carnal power shall
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Speaker 1: force on every conscience laws which none shall find left
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Speaker 1: them enrolled. Or what the spirit within shall on the
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Speaker 1: heart and grave. What will they, then but force the
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Speaker 1: spirit of Grace itself and bind his consort liberty? What
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Speaker 1: but unbuild his living temples built by faith to stand
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Speaker 1: their own faith, not another's. For on earth who against
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Speaker 1: faith and conscience can be heard infallible? Yet many will presume.
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Speaker 1: Whence heavy persecution shall rise on all who in the
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Speaker 1: worship persevere of spirit and truth. The rest, far greater apart,
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Speaker 1: will deem in outward rights and specious forms. Religion satisfied
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Speaker 1: truth shall retire, be struck with slanderous darts, and works
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Speaker 1: of faith rarely to be found. So shall the world
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Speaker 1: go on to good, malignant to bad men, benign under
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Speaker 1: her own weight, groaning to the day appear of respiration
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Speaker 1: to the just, and vengeance to the wicked. At return
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Speaker 1: of him so lately promised to thy aid the woman
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Speaker 1: seed obscurely then foretold, now amply aer known, thy Savior
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Speaker 1: and thy Lord last in the clouds from heath, to
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Speaker 1: be revealed in glory of the Father, to dissolve Satan
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Speaker 1: with his perverted world. Then raise from the conflagrant mass,
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Speaker 1: purged and refined, new heavens, new Earth, ages of endless date,
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Speaker 1: founded in righteousness and peace and love, to bring forth fruits,
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Speaker 1: joy and eternal bliss. He ended, and thus Adam Last replied,
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Speaker 1: how soon hath thy prediction see or blessed measured this
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Speaker 1: transient world the race of time till time stand fixed
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Speaker 1: beyond is all abyss eternity, whose end no eye can reach.
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Speaker 1: Greatly instructed, I shall hence depart greatly in peace of thought,
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Speaker 1: and have my fill of knowledge what this vessel can contain,
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Speaker 1: beyond which was my folly to aspire. Henceforth I learned
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Speaker 1: that to obey is best, and love with fear the
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Speaker 1: only God to walk as in his presence, ever to
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Speaker 1: observe his providence, and on him soul depend merciful over
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Speaker 1: all his works, with good, still overcoming evil, and by
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Speaker 1: small accomplishing great things, by things deemed weak, subverting the
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Speaker 1: worldly strong and worldly wise, by simply meek. That suffering
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Speaker 1: for truth's sake is fortitude to highest victory and to
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Speaker 1: the faithful death. The Gates of life taught this by
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Speaker 1: his example, whom I now acknowledge, my redeemer, ever blest,
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Speaker 1: to whom thus also the Angel last replied this, having
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Speaker 1: learnt thou hast attained the sum of wisdom hope no
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Speaker 1: higher though all the stars thou knewest by name, and
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Speaker 1: all the ethereal powers, all secrets of the deep, all
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Speaker 1: nature's works or works of God in heaven e'er earth
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Speaker 1: or sea, and all the riches of this world enjoinst
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Speaker 1: and all the rule one empire. Only add deeds to
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Speaker 1: thy knowledge answerable, add faith, add virtue, patience, temperance, Add
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Speaker 1: love by name to come called Charity, the soul of
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Speaker 1: all the rest. Then wilt thou not be loath to
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Speaker 1: leave this paradise, but shall possess a paradise within thee
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Speaker 1: happier far. Let us descend now. Therefore, from this top
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Speaker 1: of speculation, for the hour precise exacts our parting. Hence,
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Speaker 1: and see the guards by me encamped on yonder hill,
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Speaker 1: expect their motion, at whose front a flaming sword in
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Speaker 1: signal of remove waves fiercely round. We may no longer stay.
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Speaker 1: Go waken Eve her also I will, gentle dreams have calmed,
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Speaker 1: portending good, and all her spirits composed to meek submission,
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Speaker 1: Thou at season fit Let her with thee partake what
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Speaker 1: thou hast learned, Chiefly, what may concern her faith to
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Speaker 1: know the great deliverance by her to come, for by
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Speaker 1: the Woman's seed on all mankind, that ye may live,
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Speaker 1: which will be many days both in one faith, unanimous,
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Speaker 1: though sad, which cause for evils past, yet much more
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Speaker 1: cheered with meditation on the happy end he ended, and
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Speaker 1: they both descend the hill. Descended Adam to the bower
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Speaker 1: where Yve lay sleeping, ran before, but found her waked,
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Speaker 1: and thus with words not sad she him received. Whence
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Speaker 1: thou returnest, and whither wentest?
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Speaker 2: I know?
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Speaker 1: For God is also in sleep and dreams advise which
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Speaker 1: he hath sent propitious some great good presaging, Since with
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Speaker 1: sorrow and heart's distress wearied, I fell asleep. But now
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Speaker 1: lead on in me is no delay with THEE. To
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Speaker 1: go is to stay here without THEE here, To stay
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Speaker 1: is to go. Hence, unwilling thou to me art all
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Speaker 1: things under heaven, all places Thou, who for my wilful
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Speaker 1: crime art banished. Hence this further consolation. Yet secure I
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Speaker 1: carry hents, though all by me is lost, such favor
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Speaker 1: I unworthy am vouchsafed by me the promised seed shall
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Speaker 1: all restore, So spake our mother.
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Speaker 2: Eve.
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Speaker 1: And Adam heard well pleased, but answered not for now
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Speaker 1: to nigh the archangel stood, and from the other hill
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Speaker 1: to their fixed station, All in bright array, the Carabim
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Speaker 1: descended on the ground, gliding meteorus as evening mist risen
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Speaker 1: from a river o'er the marish glides and gathers ground
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Speaker 1: fast to the laborer's heel homeward, Returning high in front,
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Speaker 1: advanced the brandished sword of God before them blazed fierce
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Speaker 1: as a comet, which, with torrid heat and vapor as
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Speaker 1: the Libyan air a dust, began to parch that temperate
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Speaker 1: climb whereat in either hand, and the hastening angel caught
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Speaker 1: our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate, let them
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Speaker 1: direct and down the cliff as fast to the subjected plain,
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Speaker 1: then disappeared. They, looking back all the eastern side beheld
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Speaker 1: of paradise so late their happy seat waved over by
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Speaker 1: that flaming brand the gate with some dreadful faces, thronged
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Speaker 1: and fiery arms, some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them.
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Speaker 1: Soon the world was all before them. Where to choose
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Speaker 1: their place of rest and providence their guide? They hand
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Speaker 1: in hand with wandering steps, and slow through Eden took
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Speaker 1: their solitary way. End of Book ten, Part two, end
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