O argument blasphemous, false and proud!
ords wo hear in heavn [ 810 ]
Expected, least of all from te
In place thy Peeres.
Canst th impious obloquie condemne
t Decree of God, pronounct and sworn,
t to endud [ 815 ]
iter, every Soule in heavn
S honour due
Confess ful King? unjust t
Flatly unjust, to binde he free,
And equal over equals to let Reigne, [ 820 ]
One over all h unsucceeded power.
S to God, s te
its of libertie, who made
t t, and formd the Powrs of heavn
Suchir being? [ 825 ]
Yet by experience taught we know how good,
And of our good, and of our dignitie
to make us less, bent rato exalt
Our ate under one head more neer [ 830 ]
United. But to grant it t,
t equal over equals Monarch Reigne:
t and glorious dost t,
Or all Angelic Nature joind in one,
Equal to ten Son, by whom [ 835 ]
As by y Father made
All ts of heavn
By ed in t degrees,
Croo thir Glory namd
tions, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers, [ 840 ]
Essential Powers, nor by his Reign obscurd,
But more illustrious made, since he head
One of our number t becomes,
o him done
Returns our ohis impious rage, [ 845 ]
And tempt not t n to appease
th incensed Son,
ime besought.