accomplish'd, when JESUS, (c) the Son of MARY, (who is the fecond EVE) faw SATAN the Prince of the Air, fall down from Heaven like Lightning; then rifing from his Grave, having fpoil'd Principalities and Powers, he made a Show of them openly, triumphing over them, and with bright Afcenfion led Captivity Captive through the Air, the very Realm fo long ufurp'd by SATAN, whom he fhall tread at laft under our Feet; even he, who at this Time foretold his fatal Bruize; and to the WOMAN he gave Sentence thus:

I WILL greatly multiply thy Sorrow by thy Conception; in Sorrow fhalt thou bring forth Children; unto thy Hufband's Will thine fhall fubmit, for he fhall rule over thee.

LASTLY upon ADAM he thus pronounc'd Judgment: Becaufe thou haft hearken'd to the Voice of thy Wife, and haft eaten of the Tree of which I commanded thee, faying, thou fhalt not eat of it, curft be the Ground for thy Sake; in Sorrow fhalt thou eat of it all the Days of thy Life; Thorns alfo and Thiftles it fhall bring forth to thee, and thou fhalt eat of the Herb of the Field. In the Sweat of thy Face fhalt thou eat Bread, 'till thou return unto the Ground, for thou waft taken out of the Ground; Duft thou art, and unto Duft thou fhalt return again.

So he judg'd MAN, being fent both Judge and Saviour, and put far off the prefent Sentence of DEATH,

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DEATH, which was pronounc'd on that Day: Then pitying them, to fee how they stood before him, expos'd to the naked Air; (that now was likewise about to fuffer Change) he did not difdain, thenceforth, to affume the Form of a Servant: As when he wash'd his Servants Feet; fo now, as the Father of his Family, he cover'd their Nakednefs with the Skins of Beafts; which either had flain one another, (as fince the Fall they began to do) or elfe were fuch as had been fhed by Snakes, or fuch Creatures as change their old Skins for new ones, and did not think much to cloath his Enemies; nor did he only cloath their Nakedness with the Skins of Beafts, but arraying their inward Nakednefs (which was much more fhameful) with his Robe of Righteoufnefs, cover'd it from the Sight of his FATHER. With fwift Afcent he return'd up to him, into his blisful Bofom, fitting in Glory as of old; and to the omnifcient FATHER, now appeas'd, recounted all that had pafs'd with MAN, mixing fweet Interceffion.

Sin and Death make a Bridge over Chaos, and travel from Hell to Earth: Satan arrives at Pandemonium, and in full Affembly relates his Success against Man.

EAN while, before ADAM and EVE had finn'd, and had Sentence pafs'd on them on Earth, SIN and DEATH fat within the Gates of Hell on either Side, oppofite to each other; the Gates fince SATAN pafs'd through had ftood wide open, belching outragious Flames into the CHAOS, SIN having open'd them; who now thus began to fay to DEATH:

O SON! why do we fit here idly viewing each other, while our great Author SATAN thrives in other Worlds, and provides a happier Seat for us his dear Offfpring? It can't be otherwife, than that Succefs attends him: Had he met with Misfortune, he had return'd before this Time, furiously driven by the Ministers of Vengeance; fince no Place can be fo fit for his Punishment or their Revenge, as this is. Methinks I feel new Strength rife within me, Wings growing, and large Dominion given me beyond this deep Hell; whatever it be that draws me on, or whether it be Sympathy, or the Force of fome natural Power, to unite Things of like Nature at the greateft Distance, by fecret Attraction and Conveyance. Thou who art my Shadow and infeparable from me, muft go along with me, for there is no Power that can feparate DEATH from SIN. But, left perchance the Difficulty of paffing back, keeps him from returning over this Gulph, through which there is no Paflage, let us try (a difficult Piece of Work!. yet not improper for thee and me, nor ill fuited to our Power) to make a Path over the Abyfs from Hell to that new . World, where SATAN has now got Footing; a Monument of high Merit to all the Infernal Hoft, making their Paffage eafy, backward and forward from hence, or for them to quit Hell once for all, which of thefe fhall happen to be their Lot: Nor can I mis the Way, finding myfelf fo ftrongly drawn by instinct, and this new felt Attraction.

To whom the meagre Shadow, DEATH, foon gave Answer: Go, whither Fate and ftrong Inclination lead thee on; I fhall not lag behind, nor mifs the Way, thou being my Guide: I draw fuch a Scent of Mortality, Prey innumerable! and tafte the Savour of DEATH from all Things that lie there: Nor fhall I be wanting to the Work thou art taking in Hand,

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but give all the Affiftance that lies in my Power. And fo faying, he fnuff'd with great Delight the Smell of the mortal Change upon Earth: As when a Flock of ravenous Birds of Prey come flying, against the Day of Battle, where Armies lie encamp'd, though froin the Distance of many a League, drawn by the Scent of living Carcaffes, defign'd for DEATH the next Day in bloody War; fo the grim King of Terrors fnuff'd and turn'd up his Noftrils into the tainted Air, fmelling his Prey from afar. Then both he and SIN flew different Ways from out the Gates of Hell, into the wafte, wild, and confus'd CHAOS, damp and dark; and with Power (for their Power was great) hovering upon the Waters, drove, crowded together, (as if it were tofs'd up and down in a raging Sea) all that they met with, folid or flimy, driving it in Shoals on each Side, towards the Mouth of Hell: As when two Polar Winds, blowing adverfe upon the CRONIAN (i) Sea, drive together Mountains of Ice, that stop the imagin'd Way beyond PETSOR A, (k) Eastward to the rich Coast of CATHAY (). DEATH fmote

(i) Cronian, of Cronos or Cronus; Lat. Gr. i. e. Time. A Name of Saturn, the God of Time and all cold Things. Here, the Frozen Northern Ocean, under the Influence of the Planet Saturn; which is a cold Planet, according to the Aftrologers; being far from us.

(k) Petfora or Petzorka; Ruff. A Province in the North of. Mofcovy, under the Artic Circle upon the Icy Sea, on the Weft Side of the River Oby; fo called from the Capital City, which standeth in a Lake of the fame Name; there is a River fo called, which falleth into that Ocean, at the Mouth of the

Waygats. It borders upon Siberia. The Ruffians call a vaft Range of Mountains near to it Ziemno Lipias, i. e. The Belt or Girdle of the World, which they imagine to be the Extremes of it.

(1) Cathay or Catae. A Provice of Tatary, having the Frozen Ocean on the North, and China on the South. It is called Cara Kitaia and Ava, by the Tatars, i. e. Black-China: because the Inhabitants were Sun-burnt; whereas thofe of China, at leaft in the Northern Provinces, are White. It confifted of the fix Northern Provinces of China, fo called from

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fmote what they had gather'd together with his petrifying Mace, and fix'd it as firm as DE LOS now is fix'd, which was faid once to have floated; the reft the Rigour of his Look bound: They faften'd all with Slime, broad as the Gate, and deep as the Bottom of Hell, and built an immenfe and high-arch'd Pile over the foaming Deep; a Bridge of prodigious Length, joining to the Wall of this World, now defencelefs and forfeited to DEATH: From hence making a broad, eafy, inoffenfive Paffage down to Hell: So (if great Things may be compar'd to fmall) XERXES, (m) to bring under Subjection the Liberty of GREECE, came from the Royal Palace of SuSA (n) to the Sea, and making a Bridge over the HELLE

the antient Cati of Tatary, who conquered China, and established Cathay for the Seat of their Empire; then Pekin or Cambalu became the Royal City, and the whole Empire of China went under that Denomination by the Tatars, who conquered it; tho' it had been the most antient Empire, and lafted the longeft of any upon Earth, A. D. 1278. Thefe Places and Names were firit made known to the Europeans from the Saracens; who began a long and bloody War with the Tatars, A. D. 1616. ended in the Conqueft of China and the Deftruction of the Family of the Taiminga, A. D. 1644. As Father Paul of Venice relates, who was in that War.

(m) Xerxes; Perf. i. e. The grand Warrior.) The fourth King of Perfia and first of that Name. He was fecond Son of Darius, i. e. the Avenger; (Achafuerus is his Scriptural

Name) i. e. One that defeats the Schemes of another Man, and Nephew of Cyrus the Great (i. e. the Sun.) Xerxes reduced Egypt, and in the fifth Year of his Reign, fet out from Susa with the most numerous and formidable Army that ever the World faw before or fince, to invade Greece: which amounted to five Millions of Souls and a bove. Herodot. L. 7. c. 187. A. M. 3470. But was fhamefully defeated, and hardly ef caped with his Life, in a little Cock-boat. A juft Chaftifement for his Infolence. He is called Abafuerus, Eft. 1.

(n) Sufa; Heb. i. e. A Lilly becaufe many Lillies grow thereabout. So Jericho is called the City of Palm Trees, Deut. 3. 3. And Florence, in Italy, from Abundance of Flowers there. It is called Shukan; and there Abafuerus held his Court, Efiber 1. 2. And hence the whole Country was clied

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