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    This also shall they gain by thir delay

    In the wide Wilderness, there they shall found

    Thir gover, and thir great Senate choose [ 225 ]

    Through the twelve Tribes, to rule by Laws ordaind:

    God from the Mount of Sinai, whose gray top

    Shall tremble, he desding, will himself

    In Thunder Lightning and loud Trumpets ?sound

    Ordaihem Lawes; part such as appertaine [ 230 ]

    To civil Justice, part religious Rites

    Of sacrifice, inf them, by types

    And shadowes, of that destio bruise

    The Serpent, by what meanes he shall achieve

    Mankinds deliverance. But the voice of God [ 235 ]

    To mortal eare is dreadful; they beseech

    That Moses might report to them his will,

    And terror cease; he grants what they besaught

    Instructed that to God is no access

    Without Mediator, whose high O<samp></samp>ffiow [ 240 ]

    Moses in figure beares, to introduce

    One greater, of whose day he shall foretell,

    And all the Prophets in thir <bdo>藏书网</bdo>Age the times

    Of great Messiah shall sing. Thus Laws and Rites

    Establisht, such delight hath God in Men [ 245 ]

    Obedient to his will, that he voutsafes

    Among them to set up his Tabernacle,

    The holy Oh mortal Men to dwell:

    By his prescript a Sanctuary is framd

    Of Cedar, overlaid with Gold, therein [ 250 ]

    An Ark, and in the Ark his Testimony,

    The Records of his ant, over these

    A Mercie-seat of Gold between the wings

    Of twht Cherubim, before him burn

    Seaven Lamps as in a Zodiac representing [ 255 ]

    The Heavnly fires; over the Tent a Cloud

    Shall rest by Day, a fiery gleame by Night,

    Save when they journie, and at length they e,

    ducted by his Ao the Land

    Promisd to Abraham and his Seed: the rest [ 260 ]

    Were long to tell, how many Battels fought,

    How many Kings destroyd, and Kingdoms won,

    Or how the Sun shall in mid Heavn stand still

    A day entire,<big>..</big> and Nights due course adjourne,

    Mans voianding, Sun in Gibeon stand, [ 265 ]

    And thou Moon in the vale of Aialon,

    Till Israel overe; so call the third

    From Abraham, Son of Isaad from him

    His whole dest, who thus shall aan win.

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