ument blasphemous, false and proud!
Words whio eare ever to hear in Heavn [ 810 ]
Expected, least of all from thee, ingrate
In place thy self so high above thy Peeres.
st thou with impious obloquie ne
The just Decree of God, pronound sworn,
That to his only Son by right endud [ 815 ]
With Regal Scepter, every Soule in Heavn
Shall bend the knee, and in that honour due
fess him rightful King? unjust thou saist
Flatly unjust, to bih Laws the free,
And equal over equals to let Reigne, [ 820 ]
One over all with unsucceeded power.
Shalt thou give Law to God, shalt thou dispute
With him the points of libertie, who made
Thee what thou art, and formd the Powrs of Heavn
Such as he pleasd, and circumscribd thir being? [ 825 ]
Yet by experieaught we know how good,
And of ood, and of nitie
How provident he is, how farr from thought
To make us less, bent rather to exalt
Our happie state under one Head more neer [ 830 ]
United. But to grant it thee unjust,
That equal over equals Monarch Reigne:
Thy self though great and glorious dost thou t,
Or all Angeliature joind in one,
Equal to him begotten Son, by whom [ 835 ]
As by his Word the mighty Father made
All things, evn thee, and all the Spirits of Heavn
By him created in thir bright degrees,
d them with Glory, and to thir Glory namd
Thrones, Dominations, Prins, Vertues, Powers, [ 840 ]
Essential Powers, nor by his Reign obscurd,
But more illustrious made, since he the Head
One of our hus reduct bees,
His Laws our Laws, all honour to him done
Returns our own. Cease then this impie, [ 845 ]
A not these; but hastn to appease
Th insed Father, and th insed Son,
While Pardon may be found in time besought.