PARADISE LOS T. The Perfons. Mofes pohoy, recounting how he affum'd his true body; that it corrupts not, because of his [abode] with God in the mount; declares the like of Enoch and Eliah; befides the purity of the place, that certain pure winds, dews, and clouds, preferve it from corruption; whence exhorts to the fight of God; tells they cannot fee Adam in the state of innocence by reafon of their fin. Juftice Mercy Wisdom debating what should become of Man, if he fall. Chorus of Angels fing a hymn of the creation. Heavenly Love. A& II. Evening Star. Chorus fing the marriage fong, and describe Paradise. A& III. Lucifer contriving Adam's ruin. Chorus fears for Adam, and relates Lucifer's rebel Confcience cites them to God's examination. Chorus bewails, and tells the good Adam hath loft. A& V. Adam and Eve driven out of Paradife : Labor, Grief, Hatred, Envy, War, Famin, Peftilence, Sicknefs, Difcontent, Ignorance, Fear, Death enter'd into the world, Mutes, to whom he gives their names: likewife Winter, Heat, Tempeft, &c. Faith Charity } Hope Chorus briefly concludes. The Deluge. Sodom. Dinah. Vide Eufeb. Præparat. Evang. L. 9. C. 22. Thamar Cuophorufa; where Juda is found to have been the author of that crime, which he condemn'd in Thamar. Thamar excused in what the attempted. The Golden Calf, or the Maffacre in Horeb. The Quails, Num. 11. The Murmurers, Num. 14. |