ready rifen from Sleep, and with chearful Words fhe thus receiv'd him: I KNOW whither thou went'ft with the Angel, and from whence thou art return'd; for GoD is alfo with us whilft we fleep, and can communicate Knowledge in Dreams, which he hath to me, propitiously prefaging fome great Good, fince I fell asleep, wearied with Sorrow and Diftrefs of Heart; but now I am chear'd; lead on! I fhall not defire to make any Delay; to go with thee, makes it as happy as to stay here; to stay here without thee, as unhappy as to go hence unwillingly: Thou art all Things under Heaven to me, and canft make all Places alike to me; who art banish'd hence, on account of my wilful Tranfgreffion. Yet this farther Confolation I carry with me, that though all is loft by me, fuch Favour is vouchfaf'd me, unworthy as I am! that by me the promis'd Seed fhall restore all. So fpoke our firft Mother Eve, and ADAM heard her, well pleas'd, but made no Answer; for now the Angel was come up to him, and ftood too near; and from the other Hill the Cherubim all defcended in bright Array, to take their fix'd Station, gliding as an Evening Mift does over marfhy Ground. High advanc'd in the Front, blaz'd before them the flaming Sword of Gor, as fierce as a Comet; which with fultry Heat and Vapours began to parch that temperate Climate: At which the Angel, in either Hand, took our lingering Parents, and led them directly to the Eastern Gate; and then, as faft down the Cliff, to the Plain beneath; after which he immediately difappear'd from them. They, looking back, beheld all the Eastern Side of PARADISE, which had been their happy Seat fo lately, and faw the flaming Sword waving over it; the Gate crouded with Angels dread Ff 2 fully fully arm'd with Fire, and forbidding Entrance. They fhed fome natural Tears, but foon wip'd them away: The whole World was before them, where to chufe the Place of their Refidence, PROVIDENCE was their Guide: And they, Hand in Hand, with flow and wandering Steps, took their folitary Way through EDEN. THE END. 265 351 Prohibited the Tree of Know ledge 267 269 271 Account of himself, and the Objects about him, &c. on his Creation 263 Of his first View of the Divine Prefence in Station in Paradife, &c. 265 Speech to God thereon, and on his Solitude there 266 Reply to God's Answer 266 Sleep on the Formation of Eve defcrib'd His first View of her Paffion for her Valediction to Raphael 274 Difcourfe with Eve preceding the Temptation, on Satan's Subtilty and the Means to refift it, &c. 285, 288 Care and Fears for her in her Absence 305 Meets her returning with the forbidden Fruit 305 Soliloquy, lamenting her Tranfgreffion 306 Refolves to die with her 307 Speech to her thereon Reflection on the Immortality of the Soul, &c. Repullory Speech to Eve at tempting to confolate him 354 355 Relents towards her Reply to her, accufing herself as the firft in Tranfgreffion, 356 Anfwer, to her Reply advifing to die by their own Hands, 358 Refolves the contrary, Submiffion to God's Will and Repentance 559 Speech to Eve, on the Effica cy of Prayer, &c. 367 Hails her the Mother of Mankind 368 Speech to her on the Omens preceeding their Expulfion from Paradife 369 On the View of Michael ap proaching 307 Speech to Michael thereon Eats the forbidden Fruit Incites her to carnal Fruition (the first Effects of it) The Place, &c. defcribed 311 After-speech to her on their Fall and Nakedness 312 Another, charging her as the Aggreffor 315 Reply to her Anfwer, recriminates her affected Selffufficiency, &c. 316 Antwer to God (the Son) calling him to Judgment 322 Difcourfe to Michael, difcovering to him in Vision what should happen in the World 'till the Flood from 392 to 406 Difcourfe with him, relating what should happen to the general Refurrection from 410 to 429 General Reply to him, Refolutions of future Obedience, Depen |