...opens the eighth canto of Book II, for example, startles by its difference from what has gone before: And is there care in heaven? And is there love In...That may compassion of their evils move? There is: ebe much more wretched were the case Of men, than beasts. In the same canto we also get the following:...

...from Mammon's cave. The canto begins with two rhetorical questions which the angel's presence answers: "And is there care in heaven? and is there love / In heavenly spirits to these creatures bace. . . ?" (2.8.1). God's love, mentioned twice more in the opening stanzas, receives further emphasis...

...restoring grace as well as life-giving grace. Edmund Spenser, a writer of long ago, exclaimed: But O! the exceeding grace Of highest God that loves His creatures so, And all His works, with mercy, doth embrace. Such grace is unlimited in its resources. God is described as abounding in grace...

...through Mammon's house, incarnates the love that is the subject of the narrator's marveling commentary: 'And is there care in heaven? and is there love / In heavenly spirits to these creatures bace, / That may compassion of their evils move? /There is' (FQnviii 1-4). The heavenly care rendered...

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...Action." Within a quarter of an hour he heard a voice. It came from the study. PART SIX BRIGHT SQUADRONS And is there care in heaven? And is there love In...highest God that loves his creatures so And all his work with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro To serve to wicked men, to serve...