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Rh ''accepts him, ordains his incarnation, pronounces his exaltation above all Names in Heaven and Earth; commands all the Angels to adore him; they obey, and hymning to thir Harps in full Luire, celebrate the Father and the Son. Mean while Satan alights upon the bare convex of this Worlds outermot Orb; where wandring he firt finds a place ince call'd The Lymbo of Vanity; what perons and things fly up thither; thence comes to the Gate of Heaven, decrib'd acending by tairs, and the waters above the Firmament that flow about it: His paage thence to the Orb of the Sun; he finds there Uriel the Regent of that Orb, but firt changes himelf into the hape of a meaner Angel and pretending a zealous deire to behold the new Creation and Man whom God had plac't here, inquires of him the place of his habitation, and is directed; alights firt on Mount'' Niphates.

Atan now in propect of Eden, ''and nigh the place where he mut now attempt the bold enterprize which he undertook alone againt God and Man falls into many doubts with himelf, and many paions, fear, envy, and depare; but at length confirms himelf in evil journeys on to Paradie, whoe outward propect and cituation is decribed, overleaps the bounds, its in the hape of a Cormorant on the Tree of life, as highet in the Garden to look about him. The Garden decrib'd; Satans firt'' Rh