Effulgeny Glorie, Son belovd, [ 680 ]
Son in whose favisible is beheld
Visibly, what by Deitie I am,
And in whose hand what by Decree I doe,
Sed Omnipotewo dayes are past,
Two dayes, as we pute the dayes of Heavn, [ 685 ]
Since Michael and his Powers went forth to tame
These disobedient; sore hath been thir fight,
As likeliest was, when two suet armd;
For to themselves I left them, and thou knowst,
Equal in thir Creation they were formd, [ 690 ]
Save what sin hath impaird, which yet hath wrought
Insensibly, for I suspend thir doom;
When perpetual fight they needs must last
Endless, and no solution will be found:
Warr wearied hath performd what Warr do, [ 695 ]
And to disorderd rage let loose the reines,
With Mountains as with ons armd, which makes
Wild work in Heavn, and dangerous to the maine.
Two dayes are therefore past, the third is thine;
For thee I have ordaind it, and thus farr [ 700 ]
Have sufferd, that the Glorie may be thine
Of ending this great Warr, sino Thou
end it. Into thee such Vertue and Grace
Immense I have transfusd, that all may know
In Heavn ahy Power above pare, [ 705 ]
And this perverse otion governd thus,
To mahee worthiest to be Heir
Of all things, to be Heir and to be King
By Sacred Un, thy deserved right.
Go then thou Mightiest in thy Fathers might, [ 710 ]
Asd my Chariot, guide the rapid Wheeles
That shake Heavns basis, bring forth all my Warr,
My Bow and Thunder, my Almightie Arms
Gird on, and Sword upon thy puissant Thigh;
Pursue these sons of Darkness, drive them out [ 715 ]
From all Heavns bounds into the utter Deep:
There let them learn, as likes them, to despise
God and Messiah his anointed King.