Love hath abounded more than glory abounds, Therefore thy humiliation shall exalt
With thee thy manhood also to this throne; Here shalt thou fit incarnate, here shalt reign Both GoD and MAN, SON both of God and MAN,
Anointed univerfal King; all pow'r
I give thee, reign for ever, and affume Thy merits: under thee as Head fupreme Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Dominions I reduce: All knees to thee thall bow, of them that 'bide 321 In Heay'n, or Earth, or under Earth in Hell; When thou attended gloriously from Heav'n Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee fend The fummoning Arch-Angels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal: forthwith from all winds The living, and forthwith the cited dead
Of all pait ages to the general doom Shall haften, such a peal shall rouse their fleep! Then all thy faints affembled, thou shalt judge 330 Bad men and Angels, they arraign'd shall fink Beneath thy fentence; Hell (her numbers full) Thenceforth shall be for ever shut. Mean while The world shall burn, and from her ashes spring New heav'n and earth, wherein the just shall dwell; And after all their tribulations long
See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing, and fair truth: Then thou thy regal fceptre shalt lay by, For regal fceptre then no more shall need, GOD shall be all in all. But all ye Gods, Adore him, who to compass all this dies, Adore the Sow, and honor him as me.
No sooner had th' Almighty ceas'd, but all The multitude of Angels with a shout (Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices) utt'ring joy, Heav'n rung With jubilee, and loud hosanna's fill'd
Th' eternal regions. Lowly reverent Tow'rds either throne they bow, and to the ground With folemn adoration down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amarant and gold, Immortal amarant! a flow'r which once
In Paradise faft by the tree of life
Began to bloom; but foon for man's offence To Heav'n remov'd, where first it grew, there grows, And flow'rs aloft shading the fount of life; And where the river of bliss thro' midst of Heav'n Rowls o'er ELYSIAN flow'rs her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect 360 Bind their resplendent locks, inwreath'd with beams; Now in loose garlands thick thrown off the bright Pavement, that like a fea of jafper shone,
Impurpled with cæleftial roses smil'd. Then crown'd again, their golden harps they took; Harps ever tun'd, that glitt'ring by their side Like quivers hung, and with preamble sweet Of charming symphony they introduce Their facred fong, and waken raptures high, No voice exempt; no voice but well could join 370 Melodious part, such concord is in Heav'n.
Thee FATHER first they sung, Omnipotent,
Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal King; Thee Author of all Being, Fountain of Light, thy self invisible Amidst the glorious brightness where thou fit'ft Thron'd inacceffible; but when thou shad'st The full blaze of thy beams, and thro' a cloud Drawn round about thee like a radiant shrine, Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear: Yet dazle Heav'n, that brightest Seraphim Approach not, but with both wings veil their eyes. Thee next they fung of all creation fint, Begotten SON, Divine fimilitude!
In whose confpicuous count'ance, without cloud 385 Made
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