Whom faithful Abraham due time fhall call From Canaan, to a land hereafter call'd 155 Seere where it flows, disgorging at feven mouths Into the fea! To fojourn in that land deeds 160 Raife him to be the fecond in that realm race Growing into a nation: and now grown, Sufpected to a fequent king, who seeks 165 To ftop their overgrowth, as inmade guests Too numerous; whence of guests he makes them flaves . Inhofpitably; and kills their infant males: Till by two brethren, thofe two brethren call Mofes and Aaron, fent from God fo claim 170. His people from inthralment, they return With glory and fpoil back to their promis'd land. But first the lawlefs tyrant, who denies G Must be compell'd by fings and judgment dire: 175 To blood unfhed the rivers must be turn'd; Botches and blains muft all his flesh im- bofs, And all his people! thunder mix'd with hail, Hail mix'd with fire, must rend th' Egyptian fky, And wheel on th' earth, devouring where it What it devours not, herb, or fruit, or grain, down 185 Muft eat, and on the ground leave nothing green: Darkness muft overfhadow all his bounds, Of Egypt must lie dead. Thus with ten wounds The river dragon tam'd at length submits igo To let his fojourners depart; and oft Swallows him with his hoft; but them lets . pals As on dry land between two chryftal walls; Aw'd by the rod of Mofes so to stand Divided, till his rescu'd gain their shore: Such wondrous pow'r God to his faint will Through present in his Angel, who fhall go All night he will purfue, put his approach Darkness defends between till morning watch: Then through the fiery pillar and the cloud God looking forth will trouble all his hoft, And craze their chariot - wheels: when by command 210 Mofes once more his potent rod extends vance 215 Through the wild defert'; not the readieft way, Left entring on the Canaanite alarm'd 1310110 Passau Staat! G 2 War terrify them inexpert, and fear 220 To noble and ignoble is more sweet Untrain'd in arms, where rafhness leads not on. This alfo fhall they gain by their delay In the wide wilderness: there they fhall found Their government, and their great fenate choofe 215 Thro' the twelve tribes, to rule by laws.or dain'd. God from the mount of Sinai, whofe gray top Ordain them laws: part fuch as appertain 230 And fhadows, of that deftin'd feed to bruise To mortal ear is dreadful! They befeech, That Moles might report to them his will, And terror ceafe; He grants, what they be fought Inftructed that to God is no access 1 Without mediator, whofe high office now 240 One greater, of whofe day he shall foretell, 250 Established, such delight had God in men 245 Shall reft by day, a fiery glam by night, Save when they journey: and a length they come, Conducted by his Angel to the land Promis'd to Abraham and his feed reft The 260 Were long to tell, how many battles fought, How many Kings deftroy'd, and kingdoms won, Or how the Sun fhall in mid Heav'n ftand |