after-dissensions, the birth and kingdom of the Messiah, 345- 371; of his life, passion, resurrec- tion, mission of the apostles, as- cension, &c. 388-465; of the mission of the Holy Ghost, gift of tongues, miracles, &c. 485-504; of the apostles' successors, (false teachers, &c.) their ambition, innovations, &c. the effects of them, and the Messiah's com- ing to judgment, 507-551; his answer to Adam's resolution of future obedience, &c. commends, advises him, and warns him to quit Paradise, 575; leads him and Eve out, 637. (Vide Similes.) Mind, the force of it, i. 254; dis- course, its food, ix. 237. Moloch, (a fallen angel,) i. 392; his speech in the council called by Satan after their fall, ii. 51; defies Gabriel in the battle between the celestial and revolted angels, vi. 357; is wounded by him and flies, vi. 360. Moon, supposed inhabited by trans-
lated saints and middle spirits, iii. 459; its office, 726; rising de- scribed, iv. 606; the spots in it, vapours not yet consolidated with its body, v. 418; part of the fourth day's creation, vii. 356; receives its light from the sun, 375; motion, aspects, 379.
Moon and stars, their courses, influ- ences, &c. iv. 661. Moon and planets, their noxious motion, aspects, &c. an effect of Adam's fall, x. 656. Morning in heaven described, vi. 12. Morning, natural, described, v. 1, 20; ix. 192; xi. 133.
Moses and Aaron, their mission to Egypt, xii. 170.
Mulciber, (a fallen angel,) i. 740.
Night in heaven described, v. 642.
Night and day in heaven described, vi. 4.
Night natural described, iv. 604, 776; v. 38; ix. 48; at Adam's fall, x. 846.
Nimrod, (the first monarch,) his tyranny described and censured, xii. 24.
Nisroch, (a fallen angel,) vi. 446; his answer to Satan in council after their defeat by the celestial angels, vi. 451.
Noah, his reprehension of the ante- diluvian world, xi. 719, 808; building the ark, &c. 728; enter- ing it with his family, the crea- tures, &c. 733; the flood described, 738, 824; its abatement, the ark's resting, &c. 841; his descent from it, the appearance of the rainbow, &c. 861.
Noon described, v. 300.
Paradise (or the garden of Eden) described, iv. 131, 214; v. 291; vii. 537; viii. 304; ix. 439; the eastern gate of it, iv. 542; guarded by Gabriel, 549; the bower of Adam and Eve there, iv. 690; the parade, watches, &c. of the guar- dian angels in Paradise, iv. 778, 782, 861, 977; the hill there, from whence Michael discovers to Adam in vision what should hap- pen to the time of the flood, xi. 377; Adam and Eve's expulsion from Paradise described, xii. 625; the flaming sword, &c. guarding the east gate of it, 532; the seat of it described by Noah's flood, xi. 829. (Vide Similes.) Passions inordinate, an effect of Adam's fall, ix. 1120. Patriarchal government, from the flood to Nimrod's tyranny, xii. 13. Patriarchs, (Abraham's, &c.) their story related, xii. 113.
Peace, the corruptions of it equal to the wastes of war, xi. 783. Peor or Chemos, (a fallen angel,) i. 412.
Persecution in matters spiritual, the rise of it, xii. 508-533; its effects, 533.
Phlegethon, (a river of hell,) ii. 580. Plagues of Egypt described, xii. 173. Planets and moon, their noxious
motions, aspects, &c. an effect of Adam's fall, x. 656.
Pleasures sensual censured, xi. 603. Poles, north and south, perpetual
day under both, but for Adam's fall, x. 668, 680.
Prayer, the efficacy of its spirit, xi.
5, 14, 146; unavailable against God's absolute decrees, 311. Predestination defined, iii. 111. Priests occasion the first dissension in the Jewish church and state, xii. 353.
Prosopopoeia, on Eve's eating the forbidden fruit, ix. 782; on Adam's, 1000.
Rainbow, its first appearance after Noah's flood, xi. 865; sign of God's covenant to destroy the world no more by water, 895. Ramiel, Ariel, and Arioc, (fallen angels,) vanquished, vi. 369. Raphael, (the Archangel,) his descent to Paradise to warn Adam against his fall, v. 247; his person de- scribed, 276; answer to Adam's invitation to his bower, and enter- tainment there, 371, 404; saluta- tion of Eve, 388; discourse with Adam on various subjects, v. 468 to viii. 651; on the perfection, variety, and gradual economy of the creation, v. 468-543; on obedience, as a duty of choice, not necessity, 520-543; on the revolt and defeat of the fallen angels, 577-897; thence warns him against Satan's temptations, vi. 893; vanquishes Asmadai, and puts him to flight, 363; on the creation, &c. vii. 111-640; on the motion, appearances, and in- fluences of the celestial and ter- restrial bodies, viii. 15-178; reply to Adam's account of himself on his creation, &c. 560; reply to his question concerning love, and the expression of it in spirits celestial, 620; advice to Adam at parting, and re-ascent to heaven, 630. (Vide Similes.) Reason, and free-will, the same, iv.
95, 108; ix. 350; the chief faculty of the soul, v. 100; the being of the soul, discursive of men, intui- tive of angels, 486; in animal creatures, viii. 369; the law of nature, ix. 653; correlative with liberty, xii. 83; with virtue, 97. Redemption of man, proposed by God the Father, iii. 203; under- taken by God the Son, 227. Repentance, the grace of God, iii.
Sabbath, its institution, the seventh after the six days' creation, vii. 581; the solemnity of it de- scribed, 594.
Salvation, not only to the sons of Abraham's loins, but his faith, xii. 449.
Satan, (the prince of the fallen
angels,) his fall from heaven, i. 34; why so called, i. 81; v. 657; speech to Beelzebub, after their fall, i. 84; reply to Beelzebub's answer, 157; ascent from hell, 192; his stature, looks, &c. de- scribed, 193; iv. 985; v. 706; speech to Beelzebub thereon, i. 242; his shield described, 284; his spear, 292; speech to the other fallen angels, 315; his standard described, 531; speech to the fallen angels reimbattled, 622; calls a council, 752; speech to them in council, ii. 11; under- takes an attempt on the world, (the result of it,) 430, 465; ascent to the gates of hell, 629; speech to Death there, 681; the father of Sin, and Death, 727; answer to Sin's speech, 737; to her reply, 817; flight into Chaos, 917; ar- rival at the court of Chaos, 951; speech there, 968; brought Sin and Death first into the world, 1024; ascent to light, &c. 1034; alights on the convex of the world's outermost orb, iii. 418;
view of the world from the first step to heaven gate, 540; descent to it described, 561; stops at the sun, 588; discovers Uriel, the angel of it, there, 621; transforms himself to a cherub, 634; speech to Uriel, 654; deceives him, 681; is directed by him to the world, 724; and Paradise, 733; alights on Mount Niphates, 739; soli- loquy, contemplating the sun, iv. 32; the first hypocrite, 121; arrives at Paradise, 131; sits on the tree of life, 194; soliloquy on view of Adam and Eve in Para- dise, 358; descends from the tree of life, and assumes several animal shapes, 395; listens to Adam's discourse with Eve, on God's prohibition of the tree of knowledge, 408; soliloquy on the subject of it, 505; resolves thence to tempt them to disobedience, 512; first attempt, in the as- sumed shape of a toad, on Eve asleep, 799; answer to Ithuriel and Zephon, reprehending him thereon, 827; reply to their answer, 854; answer to Gabriel, 886; reply to his answer, 925; to another, 968; inauguration of God the Son, the occasion of his revolt, v. 657; speech to the next subor- dinate angel of his party there- on, 673; the seat of his hierarchy before his fall, described, 756; speech to the angels of his hier- archy thereon, 772; reply to Ab- diel's answer, on his speech to the hierarchs of his party, 853; his army described, vi. 79; his port, and post there, 99; answer to Abdiel's reply, 150; battle be- tween his and the celestial army, described, 205-385; his prowess in the battle, 246; encounters Michael, 253; answer to Michael's speech thereon, 281; the combat described, 296; wounded by him, 320; carried off, 335; his army
defeated, 386; retreats, and calls a council, 414; speech in council, 418; reply to Nisroch there, 469; gives the word for renewing the battle, 458; renewed by his army, and the second battle described, 569, 670; speech on the celestial army's retreat, 608; his army's entire defeat and expulsion from heaven described, 831-877; re- turns from compassing the earth to Paradise by night, in a mist, in order to his temptation, ix. 53; his circuit, &c. described, 62; so- liloquy thereon, 99; enters the serpent, 182; view (in that shape) of Eve, 424; soliloquy thereon, 473; behaviour to her, 523; speech to her, 532; reply to her answer, 567; the discourse (his tempta- tion of Eve to eat the forbidden fruit) continued, 732; leaves her after eating it, 784; his sentence thereon (virtually) pronounced by God the Son, x. 171; returns to hell to avoid his presence in Para- dise, 337; meets Sin and Death upon their journey to the world on Adam's, &c. fall, 345; answer to Sin's speech, 383; parts with them, 410; ascends his throne at Pandemonium, 443; speech to the fallen angels assembled there, 459; applauded with a hiss, 504; he and they transformed to ser- pents, 510; farther punished with an illusion of the forbidden fruit, 549; both annually continued, 575; himself (the serpent) dragged in chains at the ascension of the Messiah, xii. 453; dissolution (with the world) at his coming to judg- ment, 545. (Vide Similes.) Saturn, (a fallen angel,) i. 512. Scriptures, how to be understood, xii. 511.
Seasons, their changes, respecting
each clime, an effect of Adam's fall, x. 677.
Serpent described, ix. 182; after
entered by Satan, 495; his sen- tence (formally) pronounced by God the Son, as the assumed tempter of Eve, x. 163, 175. (Vide Similes.)
Sidereal blasts, &c. an effect of Adam's fall, x. 692.
Adam and Eve, after their fall-to the Americans, at first seen by Columbus, ix. 1115; their repent- ance-to Deucalion and Pyrrha's address to restore human race after their flood, xi. 8.
Adam caressing Eve-to Jupiter with Juno, (May-showers,) iv. 499; his address to her sleeping
-to Zephyrus breathing on Flora, v. 15; bower, to Pomona's arbour, 377; desires to know the story of the creation, prior to his own- to thirst unallayed, increasing, vii. 66; awaked after carnal frui- tion, the first effect of his fall- to Samson shorn by Dalilah, ix. 1059; sorrow on the vision of Noah's flood-to a father's mourn- ing his children all destroyed in his view at once, xi. 760. Angels celestial, the spears (of the guardians of Paradise)-to ears of corn ripe for reaping, iv. 980; their march against Satan's army -to that of the birds in Paradise to receive their names from Adam, vi. 72; their hallelujahs-to the sound of seas, x. 642; appointed to expel Adam, &c. (from Para- dise) their faces to a double Janus (four), xi. 128; their eyes -to those of Argus, 129; their appearance there-to the angels appearing to Jacob in Mahanaim, 213; to those in Dothan against the king of Assyria, 216; their motion-to an evening mist, xii. 628.
Angels fallen (or infernal)-to au-
tumnal leaves, i. 302; to floating sea-sedge after a storm, 304; rousing at Satan's command-to sentinels waking from sleep on duty, 331; imbattling against the angels celestial-to the Egyptian plague of locusts, 338; to the ir- ruptions of the northern barba- rians, 351; their disposition to engage to that of the heroes of antiquity, 549; with them-the greatest armies in all ages since the creation-pigmies, 573; them- selves-to oaks or pines blasted, 612; their searching, &c. for the materials of Pandemonium-to pioneers intrenching, &c. 675; their manner of raising it-to the wind of an organ, 705; as- sembling thereat-to bees, 768; to pigmies, 780; to fairies, 781; their applause of Mammon's speech in council-to the hollow wind after a storm, ii. 285; their rising from council-to thunder afar off, 476; their pleasure on the result to the evening sun after a foul day, 488; their after various pursuits, passions, &c.-to the Olympic, or Pythian games, 530; to the phænomena of armies in the clouds, 533; to Hercules on Eta, 543; their numbers compos- ing Satan's army against the ce- lestials to the stars, v. 745; to the dew drops, 746; their ap- plause of Satan's reply to Abdiel
to the sound of deep waters, 872; thronged together after their entire defeat by God the Son- to a herd of goats, vi. 856; their retreat to Pandemonium from the frontiers of hell during Satan's expedition to the world-to the Tartars' flight before the Russ- and the Persian from the Turk- wasting the intermediate country, x. 431; transformation to serpents -to those sprung from the gor- gon's blood, &c. 526; their ap
pearance on the tree illusive of the forbidden fruit-to the snaky hair of Megara, (one of the furies,) 558; the fruit-to the apples of Sodom, 561.
Chaos. Atoms, their motion-to the Libyan quicksands, ii. 900; con- fusion there--to storming a town, 920; to heaven and earth (sup- posed) falling, &c. 924. Death, and Sin, their making a bridge over Chaos to the world-- to polar winds, driving the ice together in the (supposed) north- east passage, x. 289; the work- to Neptune's fixing the isle of Delos, 293; to Xerxes making a bridge over the Hellespont, 306. Death's instinct of Adam's fall-to the flight of birds of prey to a field of battle, x. 273; his and Satan's frowns on each other-to two thunder clouds meeting, ii. 714.
Eve-her hair-to the vine's ten- drils, iv. 305; her looks-to the first blush of morning, v. 122; herself to Pandora, iv. 713; to a wood-nymph, or Venus, v. 379; to a Dryad, or Delia (Diana), ix. 387; to Pales or Pomona, 393; to Ceres, 395; her temptation by Satan-alluded to by the story of Ophion and Eurynome, x. 578. Flaming sword in Paradise, on Adam's and Eve's expulsion thence -to a comet, xii. 632; its heat, &c.-to the Libyan air, 634. Hell-to mount Etna, (in Sicily,) i. 230; to the bog or lake Serbo nis, (in Palestine,) ii. 592. Knowledge-the desires of it-to a
thirst unallayed, increasing, vii. 66. Michael-his combat with Satan- to two planets (the frame of na- ture, supposed, dissolved) rushing in opposition to each other, vi. 310; appearance to expel Adam, &c. from Paradise-to a man in a military vest, &c. xi. 239.
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