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THE ARGUMENT

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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 justice and 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 manifestation of his gracious purpose towards man; but god again declares; that grace cannot be extended towards man without the satisfaction of divine justice; man hath offended the majesty of god by aspiring to god…head; and therefore with all his progeny devoted to death must dye; unless some one can be found sufficient 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 incarnation; pronounces his exaltation above all names in heaven and earth; mands all the angels to 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 convex of this worlds outermost orb; where wandring he first finds a place since calld the lymbo of vanity; what persons and things fly up thither; thence es to the gate of heaven; describd ascending by staires; and the waters above the firmament that flow about it: his passage thence to the orb of the sun; he finds there uriel the regent of that orb; but first changes 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。

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hail holy light; ofspring of heavn first…born;

or of th eternal coeternal beam

may i express thee unblamd? since god is light;

and never but in unapproached light

dwelt from eternitie; dwelt then in thee; ' 5 '

bright effluence of bright essence increate。

or hearst thou rather pure ethereal stream;

whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun;

before the heavens thou wert; and at the voice

of god; as with a mantle didst invest ' 10 '

the rising world of waters dark and deep;

won from the void and formless infinite。

thee i re…visit now with bolder wing;

escapt the stygian pool; though long detaind

in that obscure sojourn; while in my flight ' 15 '

through utter and through middle darkness borne

with other notes then to th orphean lyre

i sung of chaos and eternal night;

taught by the heavnly muse to venture down

the dark descent; and up to reascend; ' 20 '

though hard and rare: thee i revisit safe;

and feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou

revisitst not these eyes; that rowle in vain

to find thy piercing ray; and find no dawn;

so thick a drop serene hath quencht thir orbs; ' 25 '

or dim suffusion veild。 yet not the more

cease i to wander where the muses haunt

cleer spring; or shadie grove; or sunnie hill;

smit with the love of sacred song; but chief

thee sion and the flowrie brooks beneath ' 30 '

that wash thy hallowd feet; and warbling flow;

nightly i visit: nor somtimes forget

those other two equald with me in fate;

so were i equald with them in renown;

blind thamyris and blind m?onides; ' 35 '

and tiresias and phineus prophets old。





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then feed on thoughts; that voluntarie move

harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird

sings darkling; and in shadiest covert hid

tunes her nocturnal note。 thus with the year ' 40 '

seasons return; but not to me returns

day; or the sweet approach of evn or morn;

or sight of vernal bloom; or summers rose;

or flocks; or heards; or human face divine;

but cloud in stead; and ever…during dark ' 45 '

surrounds me; from the chearful wayes of men

cut off; and for the book of knowledg fair

presented with a universal blanc

of natures works to mee expungd and rasd;

and wisdome at one entrance quite shut out。 ' 50 '

so much the rather thou celestial light

shine inward; and the mind through all her powers

irradiate; there plant eyes; all mist from thence

purge and disperse; that i may see and tell

of things invisible to mortal sight。 ' 55 '

now had the almighty father from above;

from the pure empyrean where he sits

high thrond above all highth; bent down his eye;

his own works and their works at once to view:

about him all the sanctities of heaven ' 60 '

stood thick as starrs; and from his sight receivd

beatitude past utterance; on his right

the radiant image of his glory sat;

his onely son; on earth he first beheld

our two first parents; yet the onely two ' 65 '

of mankind; in the happie garden plact;

reaping immortal fruits of joy and love;

uninterrupted joy; unrivald love

in blissful solitude; he then surveyd

hell and the gulf between; and satan there ' 70 '

coasting the wall of heavn on this side night

in the dun air sublime; and ready now

to stoop with wearied wings; and willing feet

on the bare outside of this world; that seemd

firm land imbosomd without firmament; ' 75 '

uncertain which; in ocean or in air。

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him god beholding from his prospect high;

wherein past; present; future he beholds;

thus to his onely son foreseeing spake。

onely begotten son; seest thou what rage ' 80 '

transports our adversarie; whom no bounds

prescribd; no barrs of hell; nor all the chains

heapt on him there; nor yet the main abyss

wide interrupt can hold; so bent he seems

on desparate reveng; that shall redound ' 85 '

upon his own rebellious head。 and now

through all restraint broke loose he wings his way

not farr off heavn; in the precincts of light;

directly towards the new created world;

and man there plact; with purpose to assay ' 90 '

if him by force he can destroy; or worse;

by some false guile pervert; and shall pervert

for man will hearkn to his glozing lyes;

and easily transgress the sole mand;

sole pledge of his obedience: so will fall; ' 95 '

hee and his faithless progenie: whose fault?

whose but his own? ingrate; he had of mee

all he could have; i made him just and right;

sufficient to have stood; though free to fall。

such i created all th ethereal powers ' 100 '

and spirits; both them who stood and them who faild;

freely they stood who stood; and fell who fell。

not free; what proof could they have givn sincere

of true allegiance; constant faith or love;

where onely what they needs must do; appeard; ' 105 '

not what they would? what praise could they receive?

what pleasure i from such obedience paid;

when will and reason (reason also is choice)

useless and vain; of freedom both despoild;

made passive both; had servd necessitie; ' 110 '

not mee。 they therefore as to right belongd;

so were created; nor can justly accuse

thir maker; or thir making; or thir fate;

as if predestination over…ruld

thir will; disposd by absolute decree ' 115 '

or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed

thir own revolt; not i: if i foreknew;

foreknowledge had no influence on their fault;

which had no less provd certain unforeknown。

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so without least impulse or shadow of fate; ' 120 '

or aught by me immutablie foreseen;

they trespass; authors to themselves in all

both what they judge and what they choose; for so

i formd them free; and free they must remain;

till they enthrall themselves: i else must change ' 125 '

thir nature; and revoke the high decree

unchangeable; eternal; which ordaind

thir freedom; they themselves ordaind thir fall。

the first sort by thir own suggestion fell;

self…tempted; self…depravd: man falls deceivd ' 130 '

by the other first: man therefore shall find grace;

the other none: in mercy and justice both;

through heavn and earth; so shall my glorie excel;

but mercy first and last shall brightest shine。

thus while god spake; ambrosial fragrance filld ' 135 '

all heavn; and in the blessed spirits elect

sense of new joy ineffable diffusd:

beyond pare the son of god was seen

most glorious; in him all his father shon

substantially expressd; and in his face ' 140 '

divine passion visibly appeerd;

love without end; and without measure grace;

which uttering thus he to his father spake。

o father; gracious was that word which closd

thy sovran sentence; that man should find grace; ' 145 '

for which both heavn and earth shall high extoll

thy praises; with th innumerable sound

of hymns and sacred songs; wherewith thy throne

enpassd shall resound thee ever blest。

for should man finally be lost; should man ' 150 '

thy creature late so lovd; thy youngest son

fall circumvented thus by fraud; though joynd

with his own folly? that be from thee farr;

that farr be from thee; father; who art judg

of all things made; and judgest 

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