To whom the Father, without Cloud, serene. [ 45 ]
All thy request for Man, accepted Son,
Obtain, all thy request was my Decree:
But longer in that Paradise to dwell,
The Law I gave to Nature him forbids:
Those pure immortal Elements that know [ 50 ]
No gross, no unharmoneous mixture foule,
Eject him tainted nourge him off
As a distemper, gross to aire as gross,
And mortal food, as may dispose him best
For dissolutiht by Sin, that first [ 55 ]
Distemperd all things, and of incorrupt
Corrupted. I at first with two fair gifts
Created him endowd, with Happiness
And Immortalitie: that fondly lost,
This other servd but to eternize woe; [ 60 ]
Till I provided Death; so Death bees
His final remedie, and after Life
Trid in sharp tribulation, and refind
By Faith and faithful works, to sed Life,
Wakt in the renovation of the just, [ 65 ]
Resignes him up with Heavn ah renewd.
But let us call to Synod all the Blest
Through Heavns wide bounds; from them I will not hide
My judgments, how with Mankind I proceed,
As how with pet Angels late they saw; [ 70 ]
And in thir state, though firm, stood more firmd.
He ended, and the Son gave signal high
To the bright Mihat watchd, hee blew
His Trumpet, heard in Oreb since perhaps
When God desded, and perhaps once more [ 75 ]
To sound at general Doom. Th Angelic blast
Filld all the Regions: from thir blissful Bowrs
Of Amarantin Shade, Fountain or Spring,
By the waters of Life, where ere they sate
In fellowships of joy: the Sons of Light [ 80 ]
Hasted, res to the Summons high,
And took thir Seats; till from his Throne supream
Th Almighty thus pronouncd his sovran Will.