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" With pitying" eye $ umy * d wl ^ outstretched band the sceptre r&isM Of love , and spake to the created tribes . " We can only give some of the concluding lines on account of room :
" Now , by myself ! I swear , not in the death Of him that dieth do I deligh * , or love To execute my Father's wrath , or doom His world to woe , hut Justice cries aloud For vengeance , and th' Almighty hears her voice . "
( Whose claims , let it be remembered , are declared to have been satisfied . ) ic Oh ! from what agonizing * Tworld arose That sound of anguish , as Messiah spake The high decree ! from earth , from earth it came . ** " The test sad Prayer of ruined Man" concludes thus :
" lordofHeev ' n ! Our unrepented crimes weigh on our souls , And cry to thee for pardon 5 oh ! forgive I Who can exist in everlasting flames Fir horn thy presence ! Mercy ! Mercy ! lord !" " No voice that pray * r shall answer ! nought
remains But fearful judgment , and the burning fire Relentless to devour the enemies Of God for ever . " The final sentence upon the guilty is thus pronounced :
cc Thrice upon Messiah ' s lipfc The thunder of his -vengeance died away In mercy's wonted accents : thrice he reared Hit arm in vain , till to his Father's word Obedient , the dread sentence he pronounc ed ;
From God , from angels , and the light of heav ' n , Condemn ed to endless woe , with fiends of _ hell ,
Down , down , ye cursed ! eternally der part . ' c < Why from yon cloud © f glory rise those notes Of anguish . ? Frienda and sons and parents
weep Their sad farewell ; and louder than the rest The patriarch Father of mankind wee heard **
We can give but a part of Adam ' * supplication , which is finely conceived * It begins , -Before thin * awful throne , Almighty ' - ' ¦ ¦ King ! " * gv * f of ton * a roppliwrt i » ow » ,
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That , safely harbourM from the wreck of earth Amid the ruin of his helpless sons , Entreats thy grace . " " By me they fetl , the father of their sin ! On me thy fury pour , but spare my sons V u Oh ! hide me from myself ! again , again , Their shrieks of torment burst upon my ear !
Nor beav ' n nor all its pleasures shall erasp The deep remembrance of that bitter cry : Redeem them from destruction ! Stay thine arm , Avenging Justice ! spare , oh ! spare my sons . " Justice now , who , though satisfied , is yet insatiate , rises to enforce not her own claims .
" So prayM our great forefather ; but the word Of God is fate ! Messiah veiTd his face ; The angel-hosts , and ev ' ry sinless notld Bent from their seats of bliss as from tht throne
Eternal Justice rear'd her awful form , In all the majesty of terror enlarg ed , Girt with the shadow of death , gloomy as hell , Fierce as the wrath of God ; her stature
fiird The vale of judgment , and the stormy realms Of Armageddon : shook beneath her tread , As on the enemies of God she rush'd , Scattering her burning round , with fire And tempest on their heads . " * * # # * * # #
" Sternly from remoter heav a Jehovah , the Most Highest , gave the voice Of Omnipresence ,, and appror'd the wrath Of Justice , and his Son : forth from the throne Of God's Messiah shone the living beams Of Glory on th encircling clouds that veil'd
The joyous fiends , and edgM the sombre shade With light that threw a faint and parting ray Upon the plain , and they were seen no more , Save by th' AH-piesent eye . *'
u They disappear For ever , and for ever , down the gulph Of Hell and unimaginable nig * ht . " In the second Book , Adam it $ thua consoled by an angelic power " And tliou , great Parent « f Mfonkiad
no more Bewail thy race condemnM , btrt turn with j ° y To yonder sons of eir ' ry rolling stw , And Death ' s last victim of thy earth ; th « pledge That Justice * claims are satisfied , that ttont
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 651, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/51/
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