God sitting on his Throne sees Satan flying towards this world, then newly created; shews him to the Son who sat at his right hand; foretells the success of Satan in perverting mankind; clears his own Justid Wisdom from all imputation, having created Man free and able enough to have withstood his Tempter; yet declares his purpose of grace towards him, in regard he fell not of his own malice, as did Satan, but by him seduct. The Son of God renders praises to his Father for the maion of his gracious purpose towards Man; but God again declares, that Grace ot be exteowards Man without the satisfa of divine justice; Man hath offehe majesty of God by aspiring to God-head, and therefore with all his Progeed to death must dye, unless some one be found suffit to answer for his offence, and undergo his Punishment. The Son of God freely offers himself a Ransome for Man: the Father accepts him, ordains his ination, pronounces his exaltation above all Names in Heaven ah; ands all the Ao adore him; they obey, and hymning to thir Harps in full Quire, celebrate the Father and the Son. Mean while Satan alights upon the bare vex of this Worlds outermost Orb; where wandring he first finds a place since calld The Lymbo of Vanity; ersons and things fly up thither; thenes to the Gate of Heaven, describd asding by staires, and the waters above the Firmament that flow about it: His passage theo the Orb of the Sun; he finds there Uriel the Regent of that Orb, but first ges himself into the shape of a meaner Angel; and pretending a zealous desire to behold the new Creation and Man whom God had plact here, inquires of him the place of his habitation, and is directed; alights first on Mount Niphates.