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This also shall they gain by thir delay In the wide Wilderness, there they shall find Thir government, and thir great Senate choose [ 225 ] Through the twelve Tribes, to rule by Laws ordained: God from the Mount of Sinai, whose gray top Shall tremble, he descending, will himself In Thunder Lightning and loud Trumpets sound Ordaine them Lawes; part such as appertaine [ 230 ] To civil Justice, part religious Rites Of sacrifice, informing them, by types And shadows, of that destined Seed to bruise The Serpent, by what means he shall achieve Mankinds deliverance. But the voice of God [ 235 ]

To mortal eare is dreadful; they beseech That Moses might report to them his will, And terror cease; he grants what they besaught Instructed that to God is no access Without Mediator, whose high Office now [ 240 ] Moses in figure beares, to introduce One greater, of whose day he shall foretell, And all the Prophets in thir Age the times Of great Messiah shall sing. Thus Laws and Rites Establish, such delight hath God in Men [ 245 ] Obedient to his will, that he voutsafes Among them to set up his Tabernacle, The holy One with mortal Men to dwell: By his prescript a Sanctuary is framed

Of Cedar, overlaid with Gold, therein [ 250 ] An Ark, and in the Ark his Testimony, The Records of his Covnant, over these A Mercie-seat of Gold between the wings Of two bright Cherubim, before him burn Seaven Lamps as in a Zodiac representing [ 255 ] The Heavnly fires; over the Tent a Cloud Shall rest by Day, a fiery gleame by Night, Save when they journie, and at length they come, Conducted by his Angel to the Land Promised to Abraham and his Seed: the rest [ 260 ] Were long to tell, how many Battels fought, How many Kings destroyed, and Kingdoms won, Or how the Sun shall in mid Heavn stand still

A day entire, and Nights due course adjourne, Man's voice commanding, Sun in Gibeon stand, [ 265 ] And thou Moon in the vale of Aialon, Till Israel overcome; so call the third From Abraham, Son of Isaac, and from him His whole descent, who thus shall Canaan win.
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