![]() ![]() Thou therefore give due audience, and attend. Must needs impaire and wearie human sense: Much thou hast yet to see, but I perceave ![]() Thus thou hast seen one World begin and end Then with transition sweet new Speech resumes. Though bent on speed, so heer the Archangel paus’dīetwixt the world destroy’d and world restor’d, Michael in either hand leads them out of Paradise, the fiery Sword waving behind them, and the Cherubim taking thir Stations to guard the Place.Īs one who in his journey bates at Noone, Adam greatly satisfied and recomforted by these Relations and Promises descends the Hill with Michael wakens Eve, who all this while had slept, but with gentle dreams compos’d to quietness of mind and submission. The Angel Michael continues from the Flood to relate what shall succeed then, in the mention of Abraham, comes by degrees to explain, who that Seed of the Woman shall be, which was promised Adam and Eve in the Fall his Incarnation, Death, Resurrection, and Ascention the state of the Church till his second Coming. ![]()
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