And be thyfelf Man among men on earth,

Made flesh, when time fhall be, of virgin feed,
By wondrous birth: be thou in Adam's room 285
The head of all mankind, though Adam's fon.
As in him perish all men, fo in thee,

As from a fecond root, fhall be reftor'd

As many as are reftor'd, without thee none.
His crime makes guilty all his fons; thy merit 290
Imputed shall abfolve them who renounce
Their own both righteous and unrighteous deeds,
And live in thee transplanted, and from thee
Receive new life. So Man, as is most juft,
Shall fatisfy for Man, be judg'd and die,
And dying rife, and rifing with him raise
His brethren, ranfom'd with his own dear life.

295

So heav'nly love fhall outdo hellish hate,
Giving to death, and dying to redeem,
So dearly to redeem what hellish hate
So easily destroy'd, and ftill destroys

300

In those who, when they may, accept not grace.
Nor fhalt thou, by defcending to affume
Man's nature, leffen or degrade thine own.
Because thou haft, though thron'd in highest bliss
Equal to God, and equally enjoying

God-like fruition, quitted all to fave

A world from utter lofs, and haft been found
By merit more than birthright Son of God,
Found worthiest to be fo by being good,

306

310 Far

Far more than great or high; because in thee
Love hath abounded more than glory' abounds,
Therefore thy humiliation shall exalt

With thee thy manhood alfo to this throne;
Here shalt thou fit incarnate, here shalt reign 315
Both God and Man, Son both of God and Man,
Anointed univerfal king; all power

I give thee; reign for ever, and affume
Thy merits; under thee as head fupreme

Thrones, Princedoms, Pow'rs, Dominions I reduce :
All knees to thee fhall bow, of them that bide 321
In Heav'n, or Earth, or under Earth in Hell.
When thou attended gloriously from Heaven

Shalt

notice as an inftance of Milton's orthodoxy with relation to the divinity of God the Son.

All

317.

all power I give thee;] Mat. XXVIII. 18. power is given unto me. 318. and affume Thy merits;] Imitated from Horace's Sume fuperbiam quæfitam meritis, Od. III. XXX. 14. but adapted to the divine Perfon to whom it is fpoken.

321. All knees to thee fhall bow, &c.] That at the name of Jefus every knee fhould bor, of things in Heaven, and things in Earth, and things under the Earth, Philip. II. 10.

334.

Tie

Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
The fummoning Arch-Angels to proclame
Thy dread tribunal; forthwith from all winds
The living, and forthwith the cited dead
Of all past ages, to the general doom

325

Shall haften, fuch a peal shall roufe their fleep. Then all thy faints affembled, thou shalt judge 330 Bad men and Angels; they arraign'd shall fink Beneath thy sentence; Hell, her numbers full, Thenceforth fhall be for ever shut. Mean while The world fhall burn, and from her afhes fpring New

334 The world fall burn, &c.] The Heavens being on fire fhall be diffolved, and the elements fhall melt avith fervent heat; nevertheless we, according to his promife, look for new Heavens, and a new Earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness, 2 Pet. III.

12, 13.

335. New Heav'n and Earth,] Dr. Bentley reads Heav'ns; for (he fays) Heav'n is the feat of God, Heav'ns are the vifible ones, all not beyond the fixed ftars: but I find Milton almost always ufing the known Jewish phrafe of Heav'n and Earth to exprefs the whole creation by. See Inftances in VII. 62, 167, 232, 256, 617. VIII. 15, ;o. X. 638, 647. XI. 66, gọi.

Pearce. The laft verfe cited by Dr. Peace is almoft the fame as this we are here confidering.

New Heav'n and Earth, wherein

the juft fhall dwell.

Both Heav'n and Earth, wherein
the juft fhall dwell.

We add too, that tho' St. Pe-
may
ter fays new Heavens and a nevo
Earth, yet St. John, Rev. XXI. 1.
makes ufe of the phrafe of Heaven
and Earth. And I saw a new Hea-
ven and a new Earth, for the first
Heaven and the first Earth were
passed away.

337. See golden days, fruitful of
golden deeds,]

Toto furget, gens aurea mundo. Virg. Ecl. IV. g. 9. Hume. 341. God fhall be all in all.] According to 1 Cor. XV 28. And when all things shall be fubdued unto him, then shall the Son alfo himfelf be fubject unto him, that put all.

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 scepter fhalt lay by,

For regal scepter 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 Son, and honor him as me.

No fooner had th' Almighty ceas'd, but all
The multitude of Angels, with a shout