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already rifen from Sleep, and with chearful Words the thus received him :

I KNOW whither thou wenteft with the Angel, and from whence thou art returned; for God is alfo with us while we fleep, and can communicate Knowledge in Dreams, which he hath to me, propitiously prefaging fome great Good, fince I fell asleep, wearied with Sorrow and Distress of Heart; but now I am chear'd; lead on! I shall not desire to make any Delay; to go with thee, makes it as happy as to stay here; to ftay here without thee, as unhappy as to go hence unwillingly: Thou art all Things under Heaven to me, and canft make all Places alike to me; who art banished hence, on Account of my wilful Tranf greffion. Yet this farther Confolation I carry with me, that though all is loft by me, fuch Favour is vouchfafed me, unworthy as I am! that by me the promised Seed shall restore all.

So fpoke our first Mother Eve, and ADAM heard her, well pleased, but made no Answer; for now the Angel was come up to him, and stood too near; and from the other Hill the Cherubim all defcended in bright Array, to take their fixed Station, gliding as an Evening Mist does over marfhy Ground. High advanced in the Front, blazed before them the flaming Sword of GOD, as fierce as a Comet; which with fultry Heat and Vapours began to parch that tempe. rate Climate: At which the Angel, in either Hand, took our lingring Parents, and led them directly to the Eastern Gate; and then, as faft down the Cliff, to the Plain beneath; after which he immediately difappeared from them. They, looking back, beheld all the Eaftern Side of PARADISE, which had been their happy Seat fo lately, and faw the flaming Sword waving over it; the Gate crouded with Angels dread

fully

fully armed with Fire, and forbidding Entrance.
They shed fome natural Tears, but foon wiped them
away: The whole World was before them, where to
chufe the Place of their Refidence, PROVIDENCE
was their Guide: And they, Hand in Hand, with
flow and wandering fteps, took their folitary Way
through EDEN.

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INDEX.

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277,

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On Satan's premeditated At-
tempt

139

Angels, fallen, their After-ftate Author's Reflection on Eve's

Numbers

Names

6, 21

21, 197

25

79

Various Purfuits, &c.
Lofs fupplied by Man's Crea
tion

134

Imba telled against the Angels

cæ eftial

Engagement

Detear

206

210

parting with Adam preceed-

ing it

286

On their Nakedness after the

309

Fall
On his own Blindness, &c. 107
Azazel, a fallen Angel, Satan's
Standard-bearer.

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44

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&c.

221

215

Difpofition to re-ingage 219
Their Artillery, Cannon,

Babel, the City and Tower bule
by Nimrod, &c.

Iii

405

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