Number'd, though sad; till death, his doom, (which I To better life shall yield him; where with me To whom the Father, without cloud, serene: By faith and faithful works, to second life, Through heaven's wide bounds: from them I will not hide My judgments; how with mankind I proceed, As how with peccant angels late they saw; And in their state, though firm, stood more confirm'd. To the bright minister that watch'd: he blew And took their seats: till from his throne supreme do sons. This whole speech is founded upon Gen. iii. 22-24.-NEWTON. T 70 73 80 8.5 His knowledge of good lost, and evil got; He sorrows now, repents, and prays contrite, And send him from the garden forth to till Thy choice of flaming warriours, lest the fiend, My covenant in the woman's seed renew'd; So send them forth, though sorrowing, yet in peace : Where entrance up from Eden easiest climbs, To spirits foul, and all my trees their prey; e Four faces each. Ezekiel says that "every one had four faces," x. 14; see also x. 12:-" And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, were full of eyes round about."-Newton. |