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- 1:31Speaker 3: Book three, Part one. Hail Holy Light, offspring of Heaven's
- 1:37Speaker 3: first born, or of the eternal coeternal beam, May I
- 1:41Speaker 3: express the unblamed, since God is light and never but
- 1:46Speaker 3: in unapproached light dwelt from eternity dwelt then in thee
- 1:51Speaker 3: bright affluence of bright essence in create or hearest thou
- 1:56Speaker 3: rather pure ethereal stream whose fountain, who shall well before
- 2:01Speaker 3: the sun, before the heavens thou wert And at the
- 2:05Speaker 3: voice of God, as with a mantle, didst invest the
- 2:08Speaker 3: rising world of waters, dark and deep, one from the
- 2:12Speaker 3: void and formless, infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing,
- 2:18Speaker 3: escaped the stygen pool, though long detained in that obscure sojourn,
- 2:24Speaker 3: while in my flight through utter and through middle darkness,
- 2:27Speaker 3: borne with other notes than to the orphean lyre I
- 2:31Speaker 3: sung of chaos and eternal night, taught by the heavenly
- 2:35Speaker 3: muse to venture down the dark descent and up to reascend,
- 2:39Speaker 3: though hard and rare thee I revisit safe and feel
- 2:44Speaker 3: thy sovereign, vital lamp. But thou revisit'st not these eyes
- 2:50Speaker 3: that roll in vain to find thy piercing ray, and
- 2:53Speaker 3: find no dawn so thick a drop serene hath quenched
- 2:58Speaker 3: their orbs or dim son fusion veiled. Yet not the
- 3:03Speaker 3: more cease I to wander where the muses haunt clear
- 3:06Speaker 3: spring or shady grove or sunny hill, smit with the
- 3:10Speaker 3: love of sacred song. But chief the Ion and the
- 3:15Speaker 3: flowery brooks beneath that wash thy hallowed feet and warbling
- 3:20Speaker 3: flow nightly I visit, nor sometimes forget those other two
- 3:25Speaker 3: equall'd with me in fate, So were I equalled with
- 3:28Speaker 3: them in renown, blind Thamaris and blind Maeonides, and Tyresius
- 3:34Speaker 3: and Phineas prophets old then feet on thoughts that voluntary
- 3:40Speaker 3: move harmonious numbers, as the wakeful bird sings darkling, and
- 3:46Speaker 3: in shadiest covert hid tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with
- 3:51Speaker 3: the year, seasons return, but not to me returns day
- 3:55Speaker 3: or the sweet approach of even or morn, or sight
- 3:59Speaker 3: of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, or flocks or herds,
- 4:05Speaker 3: or human face divine, But cloud instead, and ever during
- 4:11Speaker 3: dark surrounds me from the cheerful ways of men, cut
- 4:15Speaker 3: off and for the book of knowledge fare presented with
- 4:18Speaker 3: a universal blank of Nature's works to me expunged and raised,
- 4:24Speaker 3: and wisdom at one entrance quite shut out, so much
- 4:29Speaker 3: the rather thou celestial light shine inward, and the mind,
- 4:33Speaker 3: through all her powers, irradiate their plant eyes all mist.
- 4:38Speaker 3: From thence purge and disperse, that I may see and
- 4:42Speaker 3: tell of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the
- 4:47Speaker 3: Almighty Father from above, from the pure Empyrean, where he
- 4:51Speaker 3: sits high, throned above all height, bent down his eye
- 4:55Speaker 3: his own works and their works at once to view
- 4:59Speaker 3: about him, all the sanctities of heaven stood thick as stars,
- 5:03Speaker 3: and from his sight received beatitude past utterance. On his right,
- 5:08Speaker 3: the radiant image of his glory sat his only son
- 5:13Speaker 3: on earth. He first beheld are two first parents, yet
- 5:16Speaker 3: the only two of mankind in the happy garden, placed
- 5:20Speaker 3: reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, uninterrupted joy, unrivaled love,
- 5:27Speaker 3: in blissful solitude. He then surveyed Hell and the gulf
- 5:31Speaker 3: between and Satan, there coasting the wall of Heaven on
- 5:35Speaker 3: this side night in the dun air sublime, and ready
- 5:39Speaker 3: now to stoop with wearied wings and willing feet on
- 5:43Speaker 3: the bare outside of this world that seemed firm land
- 5:46Speaker 3: embosomed without firmament, uncertain which in ocean or in air
- 5:52Speaker 3: him God beholding from his prospect high, wherein past present
- 5:56Speaker 3: future he beholds thus to his only son. Foreseeing spake
- 6:01Speaker 3: only begotten son, seest thou what rage transports our adversary,
- 6:06Speaker 3: whom no bounds prescribed, no bars of Hell, nor all
- 6:10Speaker 3: the chains heaped on him there, nor yet the main
- 6:14Speaker 3: abby's wide interrupt can hold. So bent he seems on
- 6:18Speaker 3: desperate revenge that shall redound upon his own rebellious head.
- 6:23Speaker 3: And now through all restraint broke loose, he wings his way,
- 6:27Speaker 3: not far off Heaven, in the precincts of light, directly
- 6:31Speaker 3: towards the new created world, and man there placed with
- 6:35Speaker 3: purpose to assay, if him by force he can destroy,
- 6:39Speaker 3: or worse by some false guile, pervert, and shall pervert.
- 6:44Speaker 3: For man will hearken to his closing lies and easily
- 6:48Speaker 3: transgress the sole command, sole pledge of his obedience, So
- 6:53Speaker 3: will fall he and his faithless progeny. Whose fault, whose
- 6:58Speaker 3: but his own? In great he had of me all
- 7:02Speaker 3: he could have. I made him jest and right sufficient
- 7:06Speaker 3: to have stood, though free to fall. Such I created
- 7:10Speaker 3: all the ethereal powers and spirits, both them who stood
- 7:14Speaker 3: and them who failed freely They stood, who stood, and fell,
- 7:18Speaker 3: who fell? Not free? What proof could they have given
- 7:22Speaker 3: sincere of true allegiance, constant faith, or love? Where only
- 7:27Speaker 3: what they needs must do appeared, not what they would?
- 7:31Speaker 3: What praise could they receive? What pleasure I from such
- 7:35Speaker 3: obedience paid when will and reason reason also his choice
- 7:39Speaker 3: useless and vain of freedom, both despoiled, made passive, both
- 7:44Speaker 3: had served necessity, not me. They therefore, as to rite, belonged,
- 7:51Speaker 3: so were created. Nor can justly accuse their maker, or
- 7:55Speaker 3: their making, or their fate, as if predestination over rule
- 8:00Speaker 3: their will, disposed by absolute decree or high foreknowledge, they
- 8:05Speaker 3: themselves decreed their own revolt. Not I if I foreknew,
- 8:10Speaker 3: foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, which had no
- 8:14Speaker 3: less proved certain unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow
- 8:19Speaker 3: of fate, or aught by me immutably foreseen, they trespass
- 8:24Speaker 3: authors to themselves in all, both what they judge and
- 8:28Speaker 3: what they choose. For So I formed them free and free.
- 8:32Speaker 3: They must remain till they enthrall themselves. I else must
- 8:37Speaker 3: change their nature and revoke the high decree, unchangeable, eternal,
- 8:41Speaker 3: which ordained their freedom. They themselves ordained their fall the
- 8:46Speaker 3: first sort, by their own suggestion, fell self tempted, self depraved,
- 8:52Speaker 3: man falls deceived by the other. First man therefore shall
- 8:56Speaker 3: find grace, the other none in mercy and justus, both
- 9:01Speaker 3: through heaven and earth. So shall my glory exceel, but
- 9:05Speaker 3: mercy first and last shall brightest shine. Thus, while God spake,
- 9:11Speaker 3: ambrosial fragrance filled all heaven, and in the blessed spirits
- 9:15Speaker 3: elect sense of new joy, ineffable diffused beyond compare, the
- 9:20Speaker 3: Son of God was seen most glorious. In him all
- 9:23Speaker 3: his father shone substantially expressed, and in his face divine
- 9:28Speaker 3: compassion visibly appeared love without end and without measure, grace
- 9:34Speaker 3: which uttering thus he to his father spake, O, Father,
- 9:39Speaker 3: gracious was that word which closed thy sovereign sentence, that
- 9:42Speaker 3: man should find grace, for which both heaven and earth
- 9:46Speaker 3: shall high extol thy praises with the innumerable sound of
- 9:50Speaker 3: hymns and sacred songs, where with thy throne encompassed shall
- 9:54Speaker 3: resound thee ever blest. For should man finally be lost,
- 9:59Speaker 3: should man thy creature, late, so loved thy youngest son
- 10:03Speaker 3: fall circumvented thus by fraud, though joined with his own folly,
- 10:08Speaker 3: that be from THEE far, that far be from THEE Father,
- 10:11Speaker 3: who art judge of all things made, and judgest only right.
- 10:16Speaker 3: Or shall the adversary thus obtain his end and frustrate thine,
- 10:20Speaker 3: Shall he fulfill his malice and thy goodness bring to
- 10:23Speaker 3: naught or proud return though to his heavier doom, yet
- 10:27Speaker 3: with revenge accomplished, and to hell draw after him the
- 10:31Speaker 3: whole race of mankind by him corrupted. Or wilt thou
- 10:36Speaker 3: thyself abolish thy creation and unmake for him what for
- 10:40Speaker 3: thy glory thou'st made. So should thy goodness and thy
- 10:44Speaker 3: greatness both be questioned and blasphemed without defense, to whom
- 10:49Speaker 3: the great Creator thus replied, O, son in whom my
- 10:53Speaker 3: soul hath chief delight, son of my bosom, son who
- 10:58Speaker 3: art alone my word, my wisdom and effectual might. All
- 11:02Speaker 3: hast thou spoken as my thoughts are, all as my
- 11:06Speaker 3: eternal purpose hath decreed. Man shall not quite be lost,
- 11:11Speaker 3: but saved. Who will yet not of will in him,
- 11:14Speaker 3: but grace in me, freely vouchsafed. Once more I will
- 11:18Speaker 3: renew his lapsed powers, though forfeit and enthralled by sin,
- 11:23Speaker 3: to foul exorbitant desires, upheld by me. Yet once more
- 11:27Speaker 3: he shall stand on even ground against his mortal foe,
- 11:31Speaker 3: by me, upheld that he may know how frail his
- 11:34Speaker 3: fallen condition is, and to me owe all his deliverance.
- 11:39Speaker 3: And to none but me, some I have chosen of
- 11:42Speaker 3: peculiar grace elect above the rest, So is my will.
- 11:46Speaker 3: The rest shall hear me call, and oft be warned
- 11:49Speaker 3: their sinful state, And to appease betimes, the insensed deity,
- 11:54Speaker 3: while offered grace invites, for I will clear their senses
- 11:59Speaker 3: dark what may suffice and soften stony hearts, to pray,
- 12:03Speaker 3: repent and bring obedience due to prayer, repentance, and obedience,
- 12:08Speaker 3: do though but endeavored with sincere intent. Mine ear shall
- 12:12Speaker 3: not be slow, mine eye not shut. And I will
- 12:16Speaker 3: place within them as a guide my umpire conscience, whom
- 12:20Speaker 3: if they will hear light after light, well used, they
- 12:23Speaker 3: shall attain, and to the end, persisting safe, arrive this
- 12:28Speaker 3: my long sufferance and my day of grace. They who
- 12:31Speaker 3: neglect and scorn shall never taste but hard, be hardened, blind,
- 12:36Speaker 3: be blinded, more that they may stumble on in deeper fall.
- 12:41Speaker 3: And none but such from mercy I exclude. But yet
- 12:45Speaker 3: all is not done. Man disobeying, disloyal, breaks his fealty
- 12:50Speaker 3: and sins against the high supremacy of Heaven, affecting Godhead,
- 12:55Speaker 3: and so losing all to expiate his treason, hath not
- 12:59Speaker 3: left but to destruction, sacred and devote. He with his
- 13:03Speaker 3: whole posterity, must die, die, he or justice must, unless
- 13:08Speaker 3: for him some other able, and as willing pay the
- 13:11Speaker 3: rigid satisfaction death for death, Say Heavenly powers, where shall
- 13:16Speaker 3: we find such love, which of ye will be mortal
- 13:19Speaker 3: to redeem man's mortal crime and just the unjustice save
- 13:24Speaker 3: dwells in all heaven charity, so dear he asked. But
- 13:28Speaker 3: all the heavenly choir stood mute, and silence was in
- 13:32Speaker 3: heaven on man's behalf patron or intercessor, none appeared much
- 13:37Speaker 3: less that durst upon his own head draw the deadly
- 13:40Speaker 3: forfeiture and ransom set. And now without redemption, all mankind
- 13:45Speaker 3: must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell by
- 13:48Speaker 3: doom severe had not the Son of God, in whom
- 13:52Speaker 3: the fullness dwells of love divine his dearest mediation. Thus renewed, Father,
- 13:58Speaker 3: thy word is past. Man shall find grace, and shall
- 14:02Speaker 3: grace not find means that finds her way the speediest
- 14:05Speaker 3: of thy winged messengers to visit all thy creatures, and
- 14:09Speaker 3: to all comes unprevented, unimplored, unsought, happy for man so
- 14:14Speaker 3: coming he her aid can never seek. Once dead in
- 14:18Speaker 3: sins and lost, atonement for himself for offering meet, indebted
- 14:23Speaker 3: and undone, hath none to bring. Behold me, then me
- 14:28Speaker 3: for him life for life I offer on me, Let
- 14:32Speaker 3: thine anger fall account me. Man, I for his sake
- 14:36Speaker 3: will leave thy bosom and this glory next to thee
- 14:40Speaker 3: freely put off, and for him lastly die well pleased
- 14:44Speaker 3: on me let death wreck all his rage under his
- 14:48Speaker 3: gloomy power. I shall not long lie anguished. Thou hast
- 14:51Speaker 3: given me to possess life in myself forever by THEE
- 14:55Speaker 3: I live, though now to death I yield and am
- 14:58Speaker 3: his due. All that of me can die. Yet that
- 15:01Speaker 3: debt paid, Thou wilt not leave me in the loathsome
- 15:05Speaker 3: grave his prey, nor suffer my unspotted soul forever with
- 15:09Speaker 3: corruption there to dwell. But I shall rise, victorious and
- 15:13Speaker 3: subdue my vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil death, his
- 15:18Speaker 3: death's wound, shall then receive and stoop inglorious of his
- 15:23Speaker 3: mortal sting disarmed, I through the ample air, in triumph
- 15:27Speaker 3: high shall lead Hell, captive malger Hell, and show the
- 15:31Speaker 3: powers of darkness bound Thou, at the sight pleased out
- 15:35Speaker 3: of heaven, shalt look down and smile, While by THEE
- 15:39Speaker 3: raised I ruin all my foes, death last, and with
- 15:42Speaker 3: his carcass glut the grave. Then, with the multitude of
- 15:46Speaker 3: my redeemed, shall enter Heaven long absent, and return Father
- 15:50Speaker 3: to see thy face, wherein no cloud of anger shall remain,
- 15:54Speaker 3: but peace assured and reconcilement wrath shall be no more thenceforth,
- 16:00Speaker 3: but in thy presence, joy and tire. His words here ended,
- 16:05Speaker 3: but his meek aspect silent yet spake and breathed immortal
- 16:09Speaker 3: love to mortal men, above which only shone filial obedience.
- 16:14Speaker 3: As a sacrifice, glad to be offered, he attends the
- 16:17Speaker 3: will of his great father admiration. Seized all heaven what
- 16:21Speaker 3: this might mean, and whither tend wondering. But soon the
- 16:25Speaker 3: Almighty thus replied, O thou in heaven and earth the
- 16:29Speaker 3: only peace found out for mankind under wrath, O thou
- 16:33Speaker 3: my sole complaisance. Well thou knowest, how dear to me
- 16:37Speaker 3: are all my works, nor man the least, though last
- 16:40Speaker 3: created that for him, I spare THEE from my bosom
- 16:44Speaker 3: and right hand to save by losing thee, a while
- 16:48Speaker 3: the whole race lost. Thou. Therefore, whom thou only canst
- 16:52Speaker 3: redeem their nature also to thy nature. Join and be
- 16:57Speaker 3: thyself man among men on earth made flesh, when time
- 17:01Speaker 3: shall be of virgin seed by wondrous birth. Be thou
- 17:05Speaker 3: in Adam's room, the head of all mankind. Though Adam's son,
- 17:10Speaker 3: as in him, perish all men. So in thee as
- 17:13Speaker 3: from a second root shall be restored, as many as
- 17:16Speaker 3: are restored without THEE. None his crime makes guilty all
- 17:21Speaker 3: his sons. Thy merit imputed shall absolve them who renounce
- 17:25Speaker 3: their own, both righteous and unrighteous deeds, and live in
- 17:29Speaker 3: THEE transplanted, and from THEE receive new life. So man
- 17:34Speaker 3: as is most just, shall satisfy. For man be judged
- 17:38Speaker 3: and die, and dying rise, and rising with him raise
- 17:42Speaker 3: his brethren, ransomed with his own dear life. So heavenly
- 17:47Speaker 3: love shall outdo hellish hate, giving to death and dying
- 17:51Speaker 3: to redeem, so dearly to redeem what hellish hate so
- 17:55Speaker 3: easily destroyed and still destroys in those who, when they
- 17:59Speaker 3: may ex except not grace. Nor shalt thou by descending
- 18:03Speaker 3: to assume man's nature lessen or degrade thine own, Because
- 18:07Speaker 3: thou hast, though throned in highest bliss, equal to God
- 18:11Speaker 3: and equally enjoying god like fruition, quitted all to save
- 18:16Speaker 3: a world from utter loss, and hast been found by
- 18:19Speaker 3: merit more than birthright, son of God, found worthiest to
- 18:23Speaker 3: be so by being good, far more than great or high.
- 18:27Speaker 3: Because in THEE love hath abounded more than glory abounds
- 18:32Speaker 3: Therefore thy humiliation shall exalt with THEE thy manhood. Also
- 18:37Speaker 3: to this throne. Here shalt thou sit incarnate. Here shalt
- 18:41Speaker 3: reign both God and man Son, both of God and Man,
- 18:45Speaker 3: anointed universal King, all power. I give THEE reign forever,
- 18:50Speaker 3: and assume thy merits under THEE as head, supreme thrones, princedoms, powers, dominions.
- 18:56Speaker 3: I reduce all needs to THEE. Shall bow of them
- 19:00Speaker 3: that bide in heaven or Earth, or under earth in Hell.
- 19:04Speaker 3: When thou attendedt gloriously from heaven, shalt in the sky appear,
- 19:08Speaker 3: And from THEE send the summoning archangels to proclaim thy
- 19:12Speaker 3: dread tribunal. Forthwith from all winds the living, and forthwith
- 19:17Speaker 3: the sighted dead of all past ages to the general
- 19:20Speaker 3: doom shall hasten. Such appeal shall rouse their sleep. Then
- 19:25Speaker 3: all thy saints assembled, thou shalt judge bad men and
- 19:28Speaker 3: angels they arraigned, shall sink beneath Thy sentence. Hell her
- 19:33Speaker 3: numbers full, thenceforth shall be forever shed. Meanwhile the world
- 19:39Speaker 3: shall burn, and from her ashes spring new heaven and earth,
- 19:42Speaker 3: wherein the just shall dwell, And after all their tribulations
- 19:46Speaker 3: long see golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, with joy
- 19:51Speaker 3: and love, triumphing and fair truth. Then thou thy regal
- 19:56Speaker 3: scepter shalt lay by for regal scepter. Then no more
- 19:59Speaker 3: shall need God shall be all in awe, But all
- 20:03Speaker 3: ye gods adore him who to compass all this dies,
- 20:07Speaker 3: Adore the Sun, and honor him as me. End of
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