From the conflagrant mafs, purg'd and refin'd, He ended; and thus ADAM last reply'd. His providence; and on Him fole depend; Accomplishing great things; by things deem'd weak By fimply meek; that fuffering for truth's fake, And, to the faithful, death the gate of life; To whom thus alfo th' Angel laft replied: 550 555 560 565 570 575 Thou knew'ft by name; and all th' ethereal pow'rs; And all the riches of this world enjoy'dft; 580 Deeds to thy knowledge anfwerable; add faith;: Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, 585 Dd 2 To To leave this Paradife, but shalt poffefs A Paradife within thee, happier far! Let us defcend now therefore from this top Exacts our parting hence: and fee! the Guards, 590 Their motion; at whose front a flaming fword, 595 Let her with thee partake what thou hast heard ; Chiefly, what may concern her faith to know, The great deliverance by her feed to come 600 (For by the woman's feed; on all mankind. 'That ye may live (which will be many days) Both in one faith unanimous, though fad, (With caufe!) for evils paft; yet, much more cheer'd With meditation on the happy end. 605 He ended; and they both defcend the hill: Is to ftay here; without thee here to stay, For God is alfo in fleep, and dreams advise ; Whence thou return'ft, and whither went'st, I know 611 615 Art all things under heav'n, all places thou; I carry hence; though all by me is loft, 620 So So fpake our mother EVE; and ADAM heard 626 630 And gathers ground faft at the lab'rer's heel, Homeward returning. High in front advanc'd, The brandish'd fword of God before them blaz'd; - Fierce as a Comet; which with torrid heat, And vapours as the LIBYAN air a duft, 635 640 Began to parch that temperate clime: whereat THE EN D. 644 A INDE X. A Aron and Mofes, their miffion to Egypt Reply to his anfwer 5 877 His fidelity, &c. celebrated 5 896 Retreat from Satan's party Soliloquy on view of him at their head Speech to him thereon Reply to his anfwer Encounters him in the battel - Vanquishes Ariel, Arioc and Ramiel (fallen Angels) Abel and Cain, their fory related It 429 Acheron, a river of ball Abraham's and the patriarchs All nations bis fons by faith Adam and Eve defcrib'd generally particularly 4 295 4.312 4 Their fate of innocence 492 4 738 Night oraifon 4 720 Morn Morning oraifon Preparations to entertain the Angel Raphael Vide Similes. Adam, bis difcourfe with EvE on the prohibition of the Tree of Knowledge To her at night Answer to her question about the nightly lumi naries Viewing her fleeping Answer to her relating her dream, (the Sub Invites the Angel Raphael to his bow'r, &c. Continu'd on various fubjects Vide Raphael. 9 524 His creation and dominion, &c. over the crea tures Prohibited the Tree of Knowledge { Account of himself, and the objects about him, &c. on his creation Of his first view of the Divine Prefence, in fta tion in Paradife, &c. Speech to God thereon, and on there. Reply to God's anfwer 876 542 332 8 253 8 311 bis. folitude |