213 When the angels met Jacob in Mahanaim,

Jacob called the place Mahanaim, where he saw armies of holy angels, protecting him from the anger of Esau and Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him; and when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place, Mahanaim. Gen. xxxii. 1, 2. A city was built there, in memory of this glorious vision, in the tribe of Gad, in the land of Gilead, beyond Jordan, for the priests near Ramath: David fled to it, as a sacred place of refuge, in his exile under Abraham's usurpation: it is forty-one miles east of Jerusalem.

216 Nor that which on the flaming mount appear'd In Dothan cover'd with a camp of fire,

Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying; In such and such a place shall be my camp. And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying; Beware that thou pass not such a place; for hither the Syrians are come down. Therefore, the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?

And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bed-chamber. And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying; Behold he is

in Dothan. Therefore sent he thither horses and chariots, and a great host; and they came by night and compassed the city about. And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold an host compassed the city; and his servant said, my master, how shall we do?

And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee open the eyes of the young man; and he saw the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. 2 Kings, vi. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

235 As Raphael

An arch-angel, to whom Milton gives the title of the sociable and friendly.

242 Livelier than Maliboean,

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A city of Thessaly, on the sea coast, famous for the art of dying the finest purple, by means of a shell fish called Perpuna and Osheem, which they caught in the sea near. This beautiful colour was found by accident at Tyre: an hungry dog, it is said, broke a shell by the sea side and eat the fish, which left the colour on his mouth. Hence they became masters of that art, and the colour became valuable as gold, and it was the distinguishing mark of emperors, &c. or the grain

Of Sarra,

A town of Phænicia, the same as Tyre, famous for their dying purple. Hence came the name of sarranus, often applied to Tyrian colours. 243 Iris had dipt the woof;

Iris, the rainbow, a natural meteor in the clouds, caused by the reflection of the rays of

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the sun upon them; therefore it appears only in rainy weather. The Almighty made it a sign of his covenant with Noah, that the earth should never again be drowned.

and ev'ry kind that lives,

Fomented by his virtual pow'r and warm'd :

In him we live, and move, and have our being. His power created all, and by his goodness all are supported. Acts, xvii. 28. Let us consider ourselves as his offspring, honouring him and loving him as the great Father of our spirits ; and since we have so necessary and uninterrupted a dependance upon him; since in him we live, move and exist continually, let all the affections of our hearts, and all the actions of our lives, be consecrated to his service.

supernal grace contending

With sinfulness of men;

The Lord hath said, by his prophet, and ye shall seek me and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their Psalms, ii. 11, 12.

trust in him.

So both ascend

In the visions of God:

And he put forth the form of an hand, and took

me by a lock of mine head, and the spirit lift me

between the earth and heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem. Ezek. viii. 3. 383 Our second Adam in the wilderness,

The first man Adam, when God had breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, was made a living soul, so that even in the original state of rectitude and felicity in which man was created, he was made capable of, and fitted to, an animal life here upon earth,; whereas the Lord Jesus by virtue of the influence he has upon all his seed, as their spiritual Head and great federal Representative, may well be called the second or latter Adam, he came originally from the heavenly world, to which he is returned; and whatever of earth there was in the composition of the body he condescended to wear, it is now completely purified and refined into the most glorious form. 388 Of Cambalu, seat of Cathaian Can

The principal city of Cathay, a province of Tartary, the ancient seat of the Chams.

389 And Samarch and

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A river that rises in Tartary, and falls into the Caspian sea.

Temir's throne,

The birth place and royal residence of Tamerlane. Like Alexander the Great, he subdued more kingdoms in thirty-five years than the Romans did in eight hundred, and boasted he had three parts of the world under his power, he died in 1405.

390 To Paquin, of Sinæan kings,

Paquin, or Pekin, the royal city of China, Since, an ancient part of China, mentioned by Ptolemy.

391 To Agra,

391.

The capital city of the province of Agra, or Hindostan, in India, where the Mogul frequently resides.

and Lahor of great Mogul

The capital of the province of Lahor; it was once the seat of the Mogul empire, but since its removal, has gradually fallen to decay. Mogul or white, because they are descended from Moghul Tartars, or some white men who invaded India, and erected a kingdom in Bengal, about A. D. 1187. The present Mogul is of the race of Tamerlane.

392 Down to the golden Chersonese

The Chersonese, so called by the ancients, is the Peninsula of Malacca.

393 The Persian in Ectaban sat,

The emperor of Persia whose royal seat was at Ectaban, formerly the capital of Persia, at present Ispahan.

In Moscow,

or where the Russian Ksar

Ksar, Czar, or Tzar, the Czar of Muscovy, in Moscow, the metropolis of all Russia.

395 Or the Sultan in Bizance

The grand signior in Constantinople, so called from Constantine the Great, who rebuilt, enlarged, and beautified it, and made it the royal