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 Who, who can know the Creatures Number vaſt.

From the firſt made, to Woman who was laſt

Of all the Creatures that we read of made;

Which done, the World then was finiſhed.

When God unto the Univerſe gave Birth,

And did create the Heavens and the Earth,

He in this Work did with himſelf begin.

That lofty Place to make he dwelleth in;

Altho' he be God preſent every where,

His glorious Preſence it is only there;

It is in Heaven the third and higheſt Story,

Which Scripture calls the Place of Bliſs and Glory.

But this Imperial Seat of Majesty,

Who here below its Glory can deſcry?

We find recorded are in ſacred Writ,

Many and various Metaphors of it.

This glorious City, as in Scripture ſaid.

His twelve Foundations, which Jehovah laid;

An equal Number alſo has of Gates,

At each of which a glorious Angel waits:

The Wall of it, ſays the Apoſtle John,

Is garniſhed with every precious Stone:

That City must be ſplendid to behold,

That is compar'd to pure and precious Gold;

Its very Streets are ſaid to be no leſs

Than Gold ſo pure, that's like tranſparent Glaſs.

Of Sun or Moon this City hath no need,

Which doth for Light the glorious Sun exceed.

'Tis doubted much if this third Heaven was

At all compris'd in the confuſed Chaos.

But ſince that its Created Glory lies.

Quite out of Sight from all below the Skies,