Is lost, which alwayes with right Reason dwells

Him on this side Euphrates yet residing,

I see him, but thou canst not, with what Faith

Don to his Father, heard this heavie curse,

And upstart Passions catch the Government

Reason in man obscurd, or not obeyd,

Of him who built the Ark, who for the shame

Thus will this latter, as the former World, [ 105 ]

All Nations shall be blest; he straight obeys

Hiswww.99lib.net outward freedom: Tyrannie must be, [ 95 ]

Immediately inordinate desires

Such trouble brought, affecting to subdue

Ur of Chaldæa, passing now the Ford [ 130 ]

From Reason, and to servitude reduce

To worship thir own work in Wood and Stone

He leaves his Gods, his Friends, and native Soile

From all the rest, of whom to be invokd,

His benediction so, that in his Seed [ 125 ]

But Justice,

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and some fatal curse annext

Within himself unworthie Powers to reign

(Canst thou believe?) should be so stupid grown,

His presence from among them, and avert

Which he will shew him, and from him will raise

And one peculiar Nation to select

His kindred and false Gods, into a Land

Subjects him from without to violent Lords;

Thir inward lost: Witness th irreverent Son

Of Herds and Flocks, and n九*九*藏*书*网umerous servitude;

Twinnd, and from her hath no dividual being: [ 85 ]

Though to the Tyrant thereby no excuse.

Servant of Servants, on his vitious Race.

To call by Vision from his Fathers house,

Not knowing to what Land, yet firm believes:

To Haran, after a cumbrous Train

Not wandring poor, but trusting all his wealth

Who oft as undeservedly enthrall

For Gods! yet him God the most High voutsafes [ 120 ]

九-九-藏-书-网A mightie Nation, and upon him showre

Deprives them of thir outward libertie, [ 100 ]

Since thy original lapse, true Libertie

Wearied with their iniquities, withdraw

That Son, who on the quiet state of men [ 80 ]

A Nation from one faithful man to spring:

As to forsake the living God, and fall

While yet the Patriark livd, who scapd the Flood,

His holy Eyes; resolving from thenceforth

Over free Reason, God in Judgement just

Man till then free. Therefore since hee permits [ 90 ]

Rational Libertie; yet know withall,

To whom thus Michael. Justly thou abhorrst

Bred up in Idol-worship; O that men [ 115 ]

With God, who calld him, in a land unknown.

To leave them to thir own polluted wayes; [ 110 ]

From vertue, which is reason, that no wrong,

Yet somtimes Nations will decline so low

Still tend from bad to worse, till God at last