Raise him to be the second in that realm Of Pharaoh: there he dies, and leaves his race Growing into a nation, and now grown Sufpected to a fequent king, who seeks
To stop their overgrowth, as inmate guests Too numerous; whence,of guests, he makes them flaves, Inhofpitably, and kills their infant males:
Till by two brethren (those two brethren call Mofes and Aaron) sent from God to clame His people from inthralment, they return, With glory and spoil back to their promis'd land. But first the lawless tyrant, who denies
To know their God, or message to regard, Must be compell'd by signs and judgments dire; 175 To blood unfhed the rivers must be turn'd; Frogs, lice, and flies must all his palace fill With loath'd intrusion, and fill all the land; His cattel muft of rot and murren die; Botches and blains must all his flesh imboss, And all his people; thunder mix'd with hail, Hail mix'd with fire,muft rend th' Egyptian sky, And wheel on th'earth, devouring where it rolls; What it devours not, herb, or fruit, or grain, A darksome cloud of locufts fwarming down Muft eat, and on the ground leave nothing green; Darkness muft overfhadow all his bounds,
Palpable darkness, and blot out three days; Last,with one midnight stroke, all the first-born
With God, who call'd him, in with ten wounds 190
Canaan he now attains; Ingth fubmits
Pitch'd about Sechem, a Of Moreh; there by Gift to his proge From Hamath
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heart, but ftill as ice er thaw, till in his rage he late difmifs'd, the fea
with his hoft; but them lets pass,
dland between two crystal walls, This rescued gain their shore: And by the rod of Moses so to stand
rous pow'r God to his faint will lend, 200
Ta prefent in his Angel, who fhall Bere them in a cloud, and pillar of fire, Sa cloud, by night a pillar of fire, Teide them in their journey, and remove ind them, while th'obdurate king pursues: 205 All night he will pursue, but his approach Darkness defends between till morning watch; Then, through the fiery pillar and the cloud, God looking forth,will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels, when, by command, Mofes once more his potent rod extends Over the fea; the fea his rod obeys; On their imbattel'd ranks the waves return, And overwhelm their war: the race elect Safe towards Canaan from the shore advance Through the wild defert; not the readiest way, Left,entring on the Canaanite alarm'd,
m inexpert, and fear.
to Egypt, choosing rather rvitude; for life
ere rashness leads not on.
gain by their delay
iderness, there they shall found rnment, and their great fenate choose, 225
gh the twelve tribes, to rule by laws ordain'd: od from the mount of Sinai, whose gray top Shall tremble, he descending, will himself
In thunder, lightning, and loud trumpets found, Ordain them laws; part fuch as appertain
To civil juftice, part religious rites Of facrifice, informing them, by types
And fhadows, of that deftin'd Seed to bruise The Serpent, by what means he shall achieve Mankind's deliverance. But the voice of God
To mortal ear is dreadful; they befeéch That Mofes might report to them his will, And terror ceafe; he grants what they befought, Infructed that to God is no accefs
Without mediator; whofe high office now
Moses in figure bears, to introduce
One greater, of whofe day he shall foretel,
And all the prophets in their age the times Of great Messi ah fhall fing. Thus laws and rites Establish'd, such delight hath God in men
Of Egypt must lie dead. Thus with ten wounds 190 The river-dragon tam'd, at length submits
To let his fojourners depart, and oft
Humbles his stubborn heart, but still as ice More harden'd after thaw, till in his rage Pursuing whom he late dismiss'd, the sea Swallows him with his host; but them lets pass, As on dry land, between two crystal walls, Aw'd by the rod of Moses so to stand
Divided, till his rescued gain their shore:
Such wondrous pow'r God to his faint will lend, 200 Though present in his Angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud, and pillar of fire,
By day a cloud, by night a pillar of fire, To guide them in their journey, and remove Behind them, while th'obdurate king pursues: 205 All night he will pursue, but his approach Darkness defends between till morning watch; Then, through the fiery pillar and the cloud, God, looking forth,will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels, when, by command, Mofes once more his potent rod extends Over the fea; the fea his rod obeys; On their imbattel'd ranks the waves return, And overwhelm their war: the race elect Safe towards Canaan from the shore advance Through the wild defert; not the readiest way, Left entring on the Canaanite alarm'd,
War terrify them inexpert, and fear.
Return them back to Egypt, choosing rather Inglorious life with fervitude; for life
To noble and ignoble is more sweet Untrain'd in arms, where rafhnefs leads not on. This also shall they gain by their delay
In the wide wilderness, there they shall found Their government, and their great fenate choose, 225 Through the twelve tribes, to rule by laws ordain'd: God from the mount of Sinai, whose gray top Shall tremble, he descending, will himself
In thunder, lightning, and loud trumpets found, Ordain them laws; part fuch as appertain
To civil juftice, part religious rites Of facrifice, informing them, by types
And fhadows, of that deftin'd Seed to bruise The Serpent, by what means he shall achieve Mankind's deliverance. But the voice of God To mortal ear is dreadful; they befeéch That Mofes might report to them his will, And terror cease; he grants what they befought, Inftructed that to God is no accefs
Without mediator; whose high office now
Moses in figure bears, to introduce
One greater, of whofe day he shall foretel,
And all the prophets in their age the times Of great Meffi ah fhall fing. Thus laws and rites Establish'd, such delight hath God in men
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