4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
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At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought
All like himself rebellious, by whose aid [ 140 ]
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
This inaccessible high strength, the seat
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, [ 145 ]
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Number sufficient to possess her Realmes
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
But least his heart exalt him in the harme [ 150 ]
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire
That detriment, if such it be to lose
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Self-lost, and in a moment will create
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Another World, out of one man a Race [ 155 ]
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Of men innumerable, there to dwell,
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
They open to themselves at length the way
Up hither, under long obedience trid,
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, [ 160 ]
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee [ 165 ]
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,
Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill
Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, [ 170 ]
And put not forth my goodness, which is free
To act or not, Necessitie and Chance
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake
His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. [ 175 ]
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Then time or motion, but to human ears
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
4,At least our envious Foe hath faild, who thought,All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140 ,This inaccessible high strength, the seat,Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,,He trusted to have seisd, and into fraud,Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;,Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see, 145 ,Thir station, Heavn yet populous retaines,Number sufficient to possess her Realmes,Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent,With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:,But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150 ,Already done, to have dispeopld Heavn,My damage fondly deemd, I can repaire,That detriment, if such it be to lose,Self-lost, and in a moment will create,Another World, out of one man a Race 155 ,Of men innumerable, there to dwell,,Not here, till by degrees of merit raisd,They open to themselves at length the way,Up hither, under long obedience trid,,And Earth be changd to Heavn, & Heavn to Earth, 160 ,One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.,Mean while inhabit laxe, ye Powers of Heavn,,And by my Word, begotten Son, by thee,This I perform, speak thou, and be it don:,My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee 165 ,I send along, ride forth, and bid the Deep,Within appointed bounds be Heavn and Earth,,Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill,Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.,Though I uncircumscribd my self retire, 170 ,And put not forth my goodness, which is free,To act or not, Necessitie and Chance,Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.,So spake th Almightie, and to what he spake,His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect. 175 ,Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift,Then time or motion, but to human ears,Cannot without process of speech be told,,So told as earthly notion can receave.
Cannot without process of speech be told,
So told as earthly notion can receave.