And therefore shall not Moses, though of God
Highly belovd, being but the Minister
Of Law, his people into aan lead;
But Joshua whom the Gentiles Jesus call, [ 310 ]
His Name and Office bearing, who shall quell
The adversarie Serpent, and bring back
Through the worlds wilderness long wanderd man
Safe to eternal Paradise of rest.
Meanwhile they in thir earthly aan plact [ 315 ]
Long time shall dwell and prosper, but when sins
National interrupt thir public peace,
Provoking God to raise them enemies:
From whom as oft he saves them pe
By Judges first, then under Kings; of whom [ 320 ]
The sed, both for pietie renownd
And puissant deeds, a promise shall receive
Irrevocable, that his Regal Throne
For ever shall ehe like shall sing
All Prophecie, That of the Royal Stock [ 325 ]
Of David (so I his King) shall rise
A Son, the Womao thee foretold,
Foretold to Abraham, as in whom shall trust
All Nations, and to Kings foretold, of Kings
The last, for of his Reign shall be no end. [ 330 ]
But first a long succession must ensue,
And his Son for Wealth and Wisdom famd,
The clouded Ark of God till then is
Wandring, shall in a glorious Temple enshrine.
Such follow him, as shall be registerd [ 335 ]
Part good, part bad, of bad the longer scrowle,
Whose foul Idolatries, and other faults
Heapt to the popular summe, will so inse
God, as to leave them, and expose thir Land,
Thir Citie, his Temple, and his holy Ark [ 340 ]
With all his sacred things, a s and prey
To that proud Citie, whose high Walls thou sawst
Left in fusion, Babylon thence calld.