Of our omnipotence, and with what arms We mean to hold what anciently we clame Is rifing, who intends to erect his throne 725 Equal to ours, throughout the spacious north; Nor fo content, hath in his thought to try In battel, what our pow'r is, or our right. 739 In 716. Among the fons of morn, and evil. There are feveral inThe Angels are here call'd fons of ftances of the like manner of speakthe morning, as Lucifer is in Ifa. ing in the prophets. But this is XIV. 12. probably upon account particularly grounded upon Pfal. of their early creation; or to ex- II. 1. &c. Why do the Heathen rage, prefs the angelic beauty and glad- and the people imagin a vain thing? nefs, the morning being the moft against the Lord and against his delightful feafon of the day. Job. Anointed He that fitteth in the XI. 17. Thine age fhall be clearer Heavens fhall laugh, the Lord fhall than the noon-day; thou shalt shine have them in derifion. It appears forth, thou shalt be as the morning. that our author had this paffage in XXXVIII. 7. When the morning view, by his making the Son alftars fang together, and the fons of lude fo plainly to it in his answer. God fhouted for joy. See alfo Cant. VI. 10. Ifa. LVIII. 8. Richardfon. -Mighty Father, thou thy foes Juftly haft in derifion, and fecure Laugh'ft at their vain defigns and tumults vain. 719. — in whom my glory 1 behold In full refplendence, Heir of all my 718. And fmiling] Let not the pious reader be offended, because the fupreme Being is reprefented as fmiling and fpeaking ironically of his foes; for fuch figures of speech are not unusual in the Scripture it- might,] For he is the brightfelf. Immediately after the fall of nefs of his Father's glory, and apMan we read, Gen. III. 22. And pointed heir of all things, Heb. I. the Lord God faid, Behold the Man 2, 3. is become as one of us, to know good Mm 2 734. Lightning In our defense, left unawares we lose This our high place, our fanctuary, our hill. Made anfwer. Mighty Father, thou thy foes 735 Laugh'ft at their vain designs and tumults vain, Or stars of morning, dew-drops, which the fun 734. Lightning divine,] If lightning is a participle, the adjective divine is to be taken adverbially, as if he had faid Lightning divinely: but it is rather a fubftantive, and in Scripture the Angel's countenance is faid to have been like lightning, Dan. X. 6. Mat. XXVIII. 3. 746. Or fars of morning, dewdrops,] Innumerable as the ftars is an old fimile, but this of 740 745 Im the ftars of morning, dew-drops, feems as new as it is beautiful: And the fun impearls them, turns them by his reflected beams to feeming pearls; as the morn was faid before to fow the earth with orient pearl, ver. 2. 750. In their triple degrees;] This notion of triples in all the oeconomy of Angels is started by Taffo, Cant. 18. St. 96. flower. Impearls on every leaf and every High on a hill, far blazing, as a mount 750 755 Rais'd on a mount, with pyramids and towers The palace of great Lucifer, (fo call In battel round of fquadrons three and by Spenfer, Fairy Queen, B. 1. Like as it had been many an Singing before th' eternal Majefty, 760 Affecting The fancy was borrow'd from the There they in their trinal tripli cities About him wait, and on his will depend. 761.in the dialect of men] The learned reader cannot but be Mm 3 pleafed In our defense, left unawares we lofe This our high place, our fanctuary, our hill. Made answer. Mighty Father, thou thy foes 735 Laugh'ft at their vain defigns and tumults vain, 734. Lightning divine,] If lightning is a participle, the adjective divine is to be taken adverbially, as if he had faid Lightning divinely: but it is rather a fubftantive, and in Scripture the Angel's countenance is faid to have been like lightning, Dan. X. 6. Mat. XXVIII. 3. 746. Or flars of morning, dewdrops,] Innumerable as the ftars is an old fimile, but this of 740 745 Im the stars of morning, dew-drops, feems as new as it is beautiful: And the fun impearls them, turns them by his reflected beams to feeming pearls; as the morn was faid before to fow the earth with orient pearl, ver. 2. 750. In their triple degrees;] This notion of triples in all the oeconomy of Angels is started by Taffo, Cant. 18. St. 96. Impearls on every leaf and every flower. Rais'd on a mount, with pyramids and towers 750 755 760 Affecting |