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that bright Eminence: He upbraided none with the good Gifts he gave; nor was it any Hardship to ferve him: What could there be lefs than to afford him Praise, (which is the eafieft Recompence) and pay him Thanks? How juftly was all this due! yet all his Good prov'd Ill in me, and work'd nothing but Malice: for being lifted up fo high I difdain'd Subjection, and thought that one Step higher would fet me highest of all, and fo in a Moment quit me of the immense Debt of endlefs Gratitude; fo burthenfome it is always to be paying, and still to owe; forgetful that from him I was ftill receiving; and did not confider, that a grateful Mind by acknowledging the Benefit, owes not, but fo pays, at the fame Time indebted and difcharg'd: Where was the Hardship then? O had his powerful Destiny ordain'd and made me fome inferior Angel! then I had stood happy; no unlimited Hope had rais'd Ambition in me! and yet why not? Some other Power as great as I might have afpir'd, and drawn me, though a Spirit of meaner Rank, to his Party: But other Powers as great did not fall, but ftand now unfhaken, arm'd against all Temptation, either from without or within. Hadft Thou the fame free Will and Power to ftand as they? Thou hadft! whom haft Thou then to accufe? or what? but Heaven's free Love equally dealt to all? Accurs'd be his Love then! fince be it Love or Hate, it alike deals out to me eternal Mifery: Nay, let me be accurs'd! fince I chose freely against his Will what I now fo juftly repent. Miferable Wretch that I am! which Way fhall I fly from infinite Wrath, and from infinite Despair? Which ever Way I fly is Hell; I myfelf am Hell, and in the lowest Depth; a lower Deep opens wide, always threatning to devour me, to which the prefent Hell I fuffer feems to be a Heaven. O then relent at laft! Is there no Place left for Repentance? Is there none left for Pardon? No, there is none left, but by Submiffion; and that Difdain forbids

me,

me, and the Fear that I have of Shame among the Spirits beneath, whom I feduc'd with far different Promises and other Vaunts than Submiffion, boasting, that I could overcome the Omnipotent. Ah me! little do they know how feverely I fuffer for that vain Boaft; under what Torments I groan inwardly, while they adore me, high advanced on the Throne of Hell, and diftinguish'd with Sceptre and Diadem: (a) So much the lower ftill I fall, only fupreme in Mifery; fuch Joy does Ambition find! But fay that I could repent, and could by an Act of Grace retain my former State; how foon would Height recall high Thoughts? and how foon unfay what feign'd Submiffion had fworn! Eafe would recant Vows that were made in Pain, as violent and void; (for never can there grow a true Reconcilement, where Wounds of fo deadly Hate have pierc'd fo deep) which would but lead me on to a worfe Relapfe, and a Fall ftill heavier; by which Means I fhould dearly purchase a fhort Intermiffion of my prefent Torments, bought at the Price of double Smart. My Punisher knows this, and therefore is as far from granting Peace, as I am from begging it. All Hope thus excluded, inftead of us, now outcaft and exil'd, behold his new Delight, MANKIND created, and this World for him: So farewell Hope! and with Hope farewell alfo Fear! farewell Remorfe! all Good is loft to me; Evil be thou henceforth my Good! by thee at least I hold a divided Empire with the King of Heaven, and by thy Means perhaps will reign more than half; as MAN, before it is long, and this new World shall know. WHILE

(a) Diadem; Fr. Ital. Sp. Lat. from the Gr. i. e. Binding about. What the Syrians call Mitra, the Greeks named Diadema, and the Latins Vitta, fays Scaliger. A white Fillet or Scarf, like the Turkish Turbant; wherewith the antient Princes of

Perfia, and the Priefts also, tied a Crown about their Heads: A King's Crown. Alexander the Great brought the Use of it first into Europe, as Justin reports, Cajar and Caligula refufed it; but Aurelian was the firit Roman Emperor that wore a Diadem.

WHILE he was thus fpeaking, the Paffions that mov'd him dimm'd his Face, and he chang'd Countenance thrice and grew pale, with Anger, Envy, and Defpair, which alter'd his borrow'd Vifage and betray'd him to be a Counterfeit, if any Eye beheld him; (for heavenly Minds are always clear from fuch Diftempers) whereof he being foon aware, with an outward Calm fmooth'd each Perturbation, Contriver of Fraud! and was the first that practis'd Falfhood under a faintly Outfide, to conceal deep Malice with Thoughts of deep Revenge: Yet had he not practis'd enough to deceive URIEL, whofe Eye purfu'd him down the Way he went, and faw him on the Mountain NIPHATES, disfigur'd more than could befall Spirits of happy Kind: He mark'd his fierce Geftures and mad Demeanor, fuppofing himself to be then all alone, unobferv'd and unfeen. So on SATAN journeys, and comes to the Border of EDEN, where delicious PARADISE crowns the champaign Head of a fteep Wilderness with her green Inclosure, which makes a rural Fence; whofe fhrubby Sides overgrown with Thickets, wild and grotefque, deny'd all Manner of Accefs, and over Head grew an unfurmounta❤ ble Height of loftieft Cedars, (b) Pines, Firs, and wide-fpreading Palm, (c) and as the Ranks afcend

(b) Cedar; Fr. Lat. from the Gr. A very large, thick, and tall Tree, with small and flender Leaves. It is always green, never decays, and is deteftable to Worms; because of its bitter Sap; the Antients anointed their Books with it, to keep them from being Worm-eaten My Lord Bacon thinks the Wood of it lafts 1000 Years found. It grows chiefly on M. Lebanon, and in the Woods of America,

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Shade above Shade, made a pleafant Sylvan Scene, a woody Theatre, ftately to the View: Yet higher than their Tops, the green Inclosure and Banks of PARA DISE fprung up; which gave to ADAM a large Prof pect into his lower Empire, neighbouring round the Mount of PARADISE: And higher than that Wall appear'd a circling Row of beautiful Trees, loaden at once with Bloffoms and faireft Fruit of golden Hue, mix'd with gay enamell'd Colours, on which the Sun had left the Beauty of his Beams, more ftrongly painted than he does on a fair Evening Cloud, or on the Rainbow, when God has fent Rain upon the Earth fo lovely did that Landscape feem: And now purer Air ftill meets SATAN'S Approach, which to the Heart infpires vernal Delight and Joy, able to chase away all Sadness except Defpair: Now gentle Gales difpenfe natural Perfumes, Sweets which they fan from Flowers, and betray from whence they tole them: As when to them who fail beyond the CAPE OF GOOD

and spreadeth. The Palm was
ufed in the Service of God,
"And ye shall take you on the
"first Day the Boughs of good-
"ly Trees, Branches of Palm-
"Trees, and the Boughs of thick
"Trees, and Willows of the

Brook; and ye fhall rejoyce
"before_the_Lord your God
"seven Days." And is faid to
be worn in Paradife itself. Rev.
7. 9.
"After this I beheld,
"and lo, a great Multitude,
"which no Man could number,
" of all Nations, and Kindreds,
"and People, and Tongues,
"flood before the Throne, and
"before the Lamb, clothed
"with white Robes, and Palms

in their Hands.' It was also
the Sign and Reward of Victo-

ry in all the Grecian Games. The Antients honoured victorious Princes with spreading af Palms and Flowers before them in their Triumphs. The Jews received Alexander the Great, and our Redeemer, and they of Cremona, Vitellius, in this Fafhion.

(d) Mozambic, Mexambica, and the French call it Moxambique. Ethiop. A little Ifland with a chief City built upon a River of the fame Name, upon the Eaft Coast of Africa, belonging to Zanguebar, 270Miles from Madagascar to the Weft. It is barren and unhealthful, but populous: becaufe of the great Trade with the Portuguese, who poffefs it now.

GOOD HOPE, and are got paft MOZAMBIC, (d) North Eaft Winds blow SABEAN (e) Odours off at Sea, from the fpicy Shore of ARABIA FELIX, well pleas'd with fuch Delay they flacken their Courfe, and the Ocean feems to fmile, chear'd with the grateful Smell; fo SATAN entertain'd thefe rich Perfumes, who came to be their Bane, though better pleas'd with them than ASMODEUS (f) was with the Smoak of the burnt Fish, that drove him (though he was fo much enamour'd that he deftroy'd feven of her Hufbands) from the Wife of TOBIAS, and fent him from MEDIA (g) into the outmoft Parts of EGYPT, where the Angel RAPHAEL bound him fast.

e) Sabean, of Saba; from Seba or Saba, the Son of Chus, the 6th Son of Cham, Gen. 10. 7. Saba is the chief City of Arabia the Happy, now Zibit, where there is a great Store of Cinnamon, Caffia, Frankincenfe, Myrrh and other fweet Spices.

(f) Afmodeus; Heb. i. e. A Defroyer or Fire. A Prince of Devils among the Rabbies. An evil Spirit, who is faid to have haunted the House of Raguel; to be in Love with his Daughter Sarah, and to have deftroyed feven Husbands in the first Night

of their Marriage, Tób. 3.

17.

8.

(g) Media; Heb. from Madai the Son of Japhet, Gen. 10. 2. i. e. A Measure: because he . was of a large Stature. A large Country and antient Kingdom in Afia, on the North of Perfia, near Georgia, and upon the Caf pian Sea, having Armenia and Affyria on the Weft. It was once Miftrefs of the Eaftern Monarchy of the Medes, for 317 Years, but foon fell into the Perfians; then became fubje& to the Turks. Now Servan or Shirvan.

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