What Man can do against them, not affraid,
Infallible? yet many will presume: [ 530 ]
Though to the death, against such cruelties
Thir Ministry performd, and race well run, [ 505 ]
Now amplier known thy Saviour and thy Lord,
Working through love, upon thir hearts shall write,
Great numbers of each Nation to receave
The promise of the Father, who shall dwell
And vengeance to the wicked, at return
The Womans seed, obscurely then foretold,
Founded in righteousness and peace and love [ 550 ]
Reli九九藏书gion satisfid; Truth shall retire [ 535 ]
Secular power, though feigning still to act
To guide them in all truth, and also arme [ 490 ]
Left onely in those written Records pure,
Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names, [ 515 ]
Satan with his perverted World, then raise
Thir proudest persecuters: for the Spirit
Of Spirit and Truth; the rest, farr greater part,
Rarely be found: so shall the World goe on,
To all Beleevers; and from that pretense, [ 520 ]
Powrd first on his Apos藏书网 tles, whom he sends
His consort Libertie; what, but unbuild
On all who in the worship persevere
Thir doctrine and thir story written left,
Though not but by the Spirit understood.
New Heavns, new Earth, Ages of endless date
From the conflagrant mass, purgd and refind,
Satans assaults, and quench his fierie darts,
To bring forth fruits Joy and eternal Bliss.
They die; but in thir room, as they forewarne,
With joy the tidings brought from Heavn: at length
To speak all Tongues, and do al99lib•net l Miracles,
By spiritual, to themselves appropriating
Appeer of respiration to the just, [ 540 ]
Under her own waight groaning till the day
Who against Faith and Conscience can be heard
On every conscience; Laws which none shall finde
To thir own vile advantages shall turne [ 510 ]
Thir own Faith not anothers: for on Earth
With inward consolations recompenct, [ 495 ]
And oft supported so as shall amaze
As did thir Lord before them. Thus they win
The Spirit of God, promisd alike and givn
Be九*九*藏*书*网stuck with slandrous darts, and works of Faith
Spiritual Lawes by carnal power shall force
In glory of the Father, to dissolve
His Spirit within them, and the Law of Faith
Who all the sacred mysteries of Heavn
With spiritual Armour, able to resist
Of him so lately promissd to thy aid
Hee to his own a Comforter will send,
Shall on the heart engrave. What will they then
With superstitions and traditions taint,
Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous Wolves,
Well deem in outward Rites and specious 九-九-藏-书-网formes
His living Temples, built by Faith to stand,
But force the Spirit of Grace it self, and binde [ 525 ]
Baptizd, shall them with wondrous gifts endue [ 500 ]
Left them inrould, or what the Spirit within
Places and titles, and with these to joine
Whence heavie persecution shall arise
Of lucre and ambition, and the truth
To good malignant, to bad men benigne,
Last in the Clouds from Heavn to be reveald [ 545 ]
To evangelize the Nations, then on all
Be sure they will, said th Angel; but from Heavn [ 485 ]