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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 doe,

Second Omnipotence, two dayes are past,

Two dayes, as we compute the dayes of Heavn, [ 685 ]

Since Michael and his Powers went forth to tame

These disobedient; sore hath been thir fight,

As likeliest was, when two such Foes met armd;

For to themselves I left them, and thou knowst,

Equal in thir Creation they were formd, [ 690 ]

Save what sin hath impaird, 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 wearied hath performd 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 dayes are therefore past, the third is thine;

For thee I have ordaind it, and thus farr [ 700 ]

Have sufferd, that the Glorie may be thine

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 governd 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 Wheeles

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.