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Canaan he now attains, I see his Tents [ 135 ] Pitcht about Sechem, and the neighbouring Plaine Of Moreh; there by promise he receaves Gift to his Progenie of all that Land; From Hamath Northward to the Desert South (Things by thir names I call, though yet unnamd) [ 140 ] From Hermon East to the great Western Sea,

Mount Hermon, yonder Sea, each place behold In prospect, as I point them; on the shoare Mount Carmel; here the double-founted stream Jordan, true limit Eastward; but his Sons [ 145 ] Shall dwell to Senir, that long ridge of Hills. This ponder, that all Nations of the Earth Shall in his Seed be blessed; by that Seed

Is meant thy great deliverer, who shall bruise The Serpents head; whereof to thee anon [ 150 ] Plainlier shall be reveald. This Patriarch blest, Whom faithful Abraham due time shall call, A Son, and of his Son a Grand-childe leaves, Like him in faith, in wisdom, and renown; The Grandchilde with twelve Sons increast, departs [ 155 ]

From Canaan, to a land hereafter calld Egypt, divided by the River Nile; See where it flows, disgorging at seaven mouthes Into the Sea: to sojourn in that Land He comes invited by a yonger Son [ 160 ] In time of dearth, a Son whose worthy deeds Raise him to be the second in that Realme

Of Pharao: there he dies, and leaves his Race Growing into a Nation, and now grown Suspected to a sequent King, who seeks [ 165 ] To stop thir overgrowth, as inmate guests Too numerous; whence of guests he makes them slaves Inhospitably, and kills thir infant Males: Till by two brethren (those two brethren call

Moses and Aaron) sent from God to claime [ 170 ] His people from enthralment, they return With glory and spoile back to thir promisd Land.