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    And therefore shall not Moses, though of God

    Highly belovd, being but the Minister

    Of Law, his people into aan lead;

    But Joshua whom the Gentiles Jesus call, [ 310 ]

    ..s Name and Office bearing, who shall quell

    The adversarie Serpent, and bring back

    Through the worlds wilderness long wanderd man

    Safe to eternal Paradise of rest.

    Meanwhile they in thir earthly aan plact [ 315 ]

    Long time shall dwell and prosper, but when sins

    National interrupt thir public peace,

    Provoking God to raise them enemies:

    From whom as oft he saves them pe

    By Judges first, then under Kings; of whom [ 320 ]

    The sed, both for pietie renownd

    And puissant deeds, a promise shall receive

    Irrevocable, that his Regal Throne

    For ever shall ehe like shall s<u>?９９lｉｂ.</u>ing

    All Prophecie, That of the Royal Stock [ 325 ]

    Of David (so I his King) shall rise

    A Son, the Womao thee foretold,

    Foretold to Abra></a>ham, as in whom shall trust

    All Nations, and to Kings foretold, of Kings

    The last, for of his Reign shall b<u></u>e no end. [ 330 ]

    But <samp></samp>first a long succession must ensue,

    And his  Son for Wealth and Wisdom famd,

    The clouded Ark of God till then is

    Wandring, shall in a glorious Temple enshrine.

    Such follow him, as shall be registerd [ 335 ]

    Part good, part bad, of bad the longer scrowle,

    Whose foul Idolatries, and other faults

    Heapt to the popular summe, will so inse

    God, as to leave them, and expose thir Land,

    Thir Citie, his Temple, and his holy Ark [ 340 ]

    With all his sacred things, a s and prey

    To that proud Citie, whose high Walls thou sawst

    Left in fusion, Babylon thence calld.

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