Chapter 17 16

Effulgence of my Glorie, Son belovd, [ 680 ] Son in whose face invisible is beheld Visibly, what by Deitie I am, And in whose hand what by Decree I do, Second Omnipotence, two days are past, Two days, as we compute the days of Heavn, [ 685 ] Since Michael and his Powers went forth to tame These disobedient; sore hath been thir fight, As likely was, when two such Foes met armd; For to themselves I left them, and thou knowt, Equal in thir Creation they were formd, [ 690 ] Save what sin hath impaired, which yet hath wrought Insensibly, for I suspend thir doom; Whence in perpetual fight they needs must last

Endless, and no solution will be found: Warr worn hath performed what Warr can do, [ 695 ] And to disorderd rage let loose the reines, With Mountains as with Weapons armd, which makes Wild work in Heavn, and dangerous to the maine. Two days are therefore past, the third is thin; For thee I have ordaind it, and thus farr [ 700 ] Have suffered, that the Glorie may be thinner Of ending this great Warr, since none but Thou Can end it. Into thee such Vertue and Grace Immense I have transfusd, that all may know In Heavn and Hell thy Power above compare, [ 705 ] And this perverse Commotion governed thus,

To manifest thee worthiest to be Heir Of all things, to be Heir and to be King By Sacred Unction, thy deserved right. Go then thou Mightiest in thy Fathers might, [ 710 ] Ascend my Chariot, guide the rapid Wheels That shake Heavns basis, bring forth all my Warr, My Bow and Thunder, my Almightie Arms Gird on, and Sword upon thy puissant Thigh; Pursue these sons of Darkness, drive them out [ 715 ] From all Heavns bounds into the utter Deep: There let them learn, as likes them, to despise God and Messiah his anointed King.