Over free Reason, God in Judgement just

Yet somtimes Nations will decline so low

His holy Eyes; resolving from thenceforth

All Nations shall be blest; he straight obeys

Man till then free. Therefore since hee permits [ 90 ]

Not knowing to what Land, yet firm believes:

Of Herds and Flocks, and numerous servitude;

And one peculiar Nation to select

From vertue, which is reason, that no wrong,

He leaves hhttps://read.99csw.comis Gods, his Friends, and native Soile

That Son, who on the quiet state of men [ 80 ]

Him on this side Euphrates yet residing,

Servant of Servants, on his vitious Race.

To Haran, after a cumbrous Train

Still tend from bad to worse, till God at last

And upstart Passions catch the Government

Bred up in Idol-worship; O that men [ 115 ]

Ur of Chaldæa, passing now the Ford [ 130 ]

Immhttps://read.99csw.comediately inordinate desires

Of him who built the Ark, who for the shame

Twinnd, and from her hath no dividual being: [ 85 ]

From all the rest, of whom to be invokd,

To leave them to thir own polluted wayes; [ 110 ]

Deprives them of thir outward libertie, [ 100 ]

Is lost, which alwayes with right Reason dwells

(Canst thou believe?) should be so stupid grown,

His kindred and false Gods, into 九*九*藏*書a Land

I see him, but thou canst not, with what Faith

Wearied with their iniquities, withdraw

Though to the Tyrant thereby no excuse.

His presence from among them, and avert

A Nation from one faithful man to spring:

His outward freedom: Tyrannie must be, [ 95 ]

Don to his Father, heard this heavie curse,

Thir inward lost: Witness th irreverent Son

As to forsake the living God, and fall

Such trouble brought九-九-藏-書, affecting to subdue

Within himself unworthie Powers to reign

With God, who calld him, in a land unknown.

While yet the Patriark livd, who scapd the Flood,

To call by Vision from his Fathers house,

Rational Libertie; yet know withall,

Which he will shew him, and from him will raise

A mightie Nation, and upon him showre

To worship thir own work in Wood and Stone

Subjects him from without to violent Lords;

Reason 九*九*藏*書in man obscurd, or not obeyd,

For Gods! yet him God the most High voutsafes [ 120 ]

Since thy original lapse, true Libertie

From Reason, and to servitude reduce

Who oft as undeservedly enthrall

Not wandring poor, but trusting all his wealth

To whom thus Michael. Justly thou abhorrst

Thus will this latter, as the former World, [ 105 ]

But Justice, and some fatal curse annext

His benediction so, that in his Seed [ 125 ]