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.