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So Heavnly love shall outdoo Hellish hate, Giving to death, and dying to redeeme, So dearly to redeem what Hellish hate [ 300 ] So easily destroyd, and still destroyes In those who, when they may, accept not grace. Nor shalt thou by descending to assume Mans Nature, lessn or degrade thine owne.

Because thou hast, though Thrond in highest bliss [ 305 ] Equal to God, and equally enjoying God-like fruition, quitted all to save A World from utter loss, and hast been found By Merit more then Birthright Son of God, Found worthiest to be so by being Good, [ 310 ] Farr more then Great or High; because in thee

Love hath abounded more then Glory abounds, Therefore thy Humiliation shall exalt With thee thy Manhood also to this Throne; Here shalt thou sit incarnate, here shalt Reign [ 315 ] Both God and Man, Son both of God and Man, Anointed universal King, all Power I give thee, reign for ever, and assume

Thy Merits; under thee as Head Supream Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Dominions I reduce: [ 320 ] All knees to thee shall bow, of them that bide In Heaven, or Earth, or under Earth in Hell; When thou attended gloriously from Heavn Shalt in the Sky appeer, and from thee send The summoning Arch-Angels to proclaime [ 325 ]

Thy dread Tribunal: forthwith from all Windes The living, and forthwith the cited dead Of all past Ages to the general Doom Shall hastn, such a peal shall rouse thir sleep. Then all thy Saints assembld, thou shalt judge [ 330 ] Bad men and Angels, they arraignd shall sink Beneath thy Sentence; Hell her numbers full,

Thenceforth shall be for ever shut. Mean while The World shall burn, and from her ashes spring New Heavn and Earth, wherein the just shall dwell [ 335 ] And after all thir tribulations long See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With Joy and Love triumphing, and fair Truth.