they were incapable of division into lesser Particles of whose blind and fortuitous Concourse Epicurus and Democritus fancied the Glorious Universe to have been made a Whimsy so ill agreeing with our Author's Philosophy that he has allowed their Atoms a very different Place from any in Nature esteeming them aright the Offspring and Subjects of blind Ignorance and black Confusion V. 901. In their several Clans In their several Tribes in their divers Companies Clan is a Word among the Highland Scots signifying a Tribe perhaps of the British Llann Area to denote those that live on the same Spot or on Lands belonging to one of their great Leading Chiefs V. 902. Light Arm'd or heavy Having engaged these contesting Atoms as before Amongst the Noise of endless Wars at V. 286. he continues the Warlike Metaphor some of them are light Arm'd or heavy Levis or Gravis Armaturae according to their Inclinations to the Qualities Dry or Moist and thence Swifter or Slower c. V. 904. Of Barca or Cyrene ' s torrid Soil As numberless as the Sands in the fiery Region of Barca or Cyrene Barca the Chief City of the sandy Libya of which Silius Ital. AEternumque arida Barce Lib. 2. Of this Country and its Inhabitants Hinc deserta siti regio lutéque furentes Barcaei AEn 4. Barce sitientibus arida venis Sil. Ital. lib. 3. Cyrene a Province of the thirsty Libya full of Sand and deficient in Water it had five Cities in it of which Cyrene was the Chief and gave Name to the whole Country it was built by Battus one of their Kings Nec non Cyrene Pelopei stirpe nepotis Battiadas parves fidei stimulavit in arma Sil. Ital. l. 3. Soil of Solum Lat. Earth Ground the comparison of these flying Clouds of Sands does not only suit well with Atoms as to their Infinitude but as to their Motion also according to the Epicurean and Democritic Hypothesis of the Atomical Structure of the Vniverse V. 905. Levy'd to side with Warring Winds Raised for the Service of conflicting Winds of Lever Fr. to raise Warring Winds fighting Winds not engaging one against another but making War with whatsoever stands in their way Regna videt pauper Nasamon errantia vento Discussasque domos Volitantque a culmine raptae Detecto Garamante casae Non altius ignis Rapta vehit Quantumque licet consurgere fumo Et violare diem tantum tenet aera Pulvis Luc. l. 9. The Roman Soldiers that marched through Libya with the Noble Cato had a terrible Encounter with one of these Storms of Sand and Wind intermix'd Tum quoque Romanum solito violentior agmen Aggreditur nullusque potest consistere miles Instabilis raptis etiam quas calcat arenis Sic orbem torquente noto Romana juventus Prâ—â—ubuit metuensque rapi c. Ibid. Ibid. To poise their lighter Wings To give weight to their airy Blasts and thereby encrease their mighty force Cambyses infamous for his Impiety against the Gods of his Times as well as for his Cruelty to Men sent an Army to overturn the Temple of Jupiter Ammon which when Alexander visited he saw in four days time neither Man Beast Bird Tree nor River seated in the most Southern part of Cyrene but the Prince of the Air encountered his Forces with such a dreadful Tempest of flying Sand that it overbore them and buried most of them in the Libyan Desert Alligat stantes affusae magnus arenae Agger immoti terrâ surgente tenentur Luc. l. 9. To Poise Peser Fr. the Winds are said to ballance themselves with Sand to add the more Weight to their Fury This seems an imitation of Virgil concerning Bees Adventantibus Euris Saepe lapillos Ut cymbae instabiles fluctu jactante suburram Tollunt his sese per inania nubila librant Geor. 4. Balance Poise themselves V. 906. To whom these most adhere He of these four Champions to whom most of these aiding Atoms joyn themselves is for one moment Master of Misrule This place is mistaken by Mr. Hog the Latin Translator of our Author who has thus expressed it Cui se miscuerant vento magis ille parumper Imperat. Adhere of Adhaerere to stick to to side with V. 907. Chaos Umpire sit Confusion sits Judge of the Contest and by his Judgment does encrease the Quarrel thereby supporting his own Power An Umpire is a Person to whose Judgment and Equity the Determination of any Controversie is referred Decision of Decisio Lat. for determining deciding of Decidere to determine or judge V. 908. Imbroils the Fray Makes the Contest more intricate and endless Imbroils of Embrouiller Fr. to intangle to confound Fray a Quarrel a Scuffle of the Fr. Effrayer to affright V. 910. High Arbiter Chance governs all Chance or Fortune most commonly so called may well be the chief Substitute of Chaos a fit Deputy to Confusion of which many have as great an Esteem now adays as the Heathens had formerly Sors omnia versat Ecl. 10. Fo rs incerta vagatur Fertque refertque vices habent mortalia casum Luc. 2. Fortuna omnipotens ineluctabile fatum Fortune and Fate seeming Contradictions AEn 8. Arbiter Lat. for an Elective Judge between Man and Man and seems the same with Umpire Chance of the Fr. Chance of Cheance what may happen of Cheoir Fr. to fall out to chance Ibid. Into this wild Abyss c. Into this wide gawping Gulf the Womb of all Things and perhaps their Tomb into this empty Chasma this vast Hollow that contains nor Sea nor Land nor Air nor Fire but all this mix'd together in their powerful Causes big with them strugling and contending and which must always do so unless it shall please GOD Almighty the Maker of all Things to use them as the hidden Materials of more Worlds and by his powerful Word to distinguish and bring them into Being Abyss 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. is here to be understood of a bottomless Deep a vast Emptiness immeasurable and immense styled by him before The Hoarie Deep V. 891. and there described of the Privative 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bottom used Revel 9. v. 1 and 2. The bottomless Pit understood there and in other places of that dark Book of Hell V. 916. His dark Materials His secret Materials how the World and all Things it contains was made of Nothing by the Almighty Architect is so obscure to our finite Understandings that the Materials may well be called Dark Materials of Materialis belonging to the Matter Materia Lat. V. 919. For no narrow Frith he had to cross For he had no small Streight to pass Frith of Fretum a narrow Sea streighten'd between the Land V. 921. To compare c. Sic parvis componere magna solebam Virg. Ecl. 1. Compare Comparare Lat. to liken to V. 922. Then when Bellona storms c. Nor was his Ear assaulted with Noises less roaring and destructive than
shalt thou sit in thy Flesh Incarnate in carne of Caro Lat. Flesh. V. 316. Son both of God and Man Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee Psal. 2. 7. For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy-Ghost Matth. 1. 20. Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God Luc. 1. 35. Which was the Son of Adam which was the Son of God Luke 3. 38. V. 317. Anointed Universal King Who is the blessed and only Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords 1 Tim. 6. 16. Kings in Scripture are styled God's Anointed Saul the first King of the Israelites was anointed by Samuel 1 Sam. 10. 1. and his Successor David by the same hand 1 Sam. 16. 13. Then Samuel took the Horn of Oyl and anointed him a Ceremony still in use among most Nations Therefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the Oyl of Gladness above thy fellows Heb. 1. 9. Acts 10. 38. V. 321. That bide in Heaven c. That have their Abode in Heaven according to Phil. 2. 10. That at the Name of Jesus every Knee should â—ow of things in Heaven and things in Earth and things under the Earth Bide and abbreviation of Abide to stay in a place V. 324. Shalt in the Skie They shall see the Son of Man coming in the Clouds of Heaven with Power and great Glory Matth. 24. 30. V. 325. The summoning Archangels The Chief of thy Angels that shall summon and call all that are or ever were living Michael is named one of the Archangels Epist. Jude v. 9. Summoning of Summonere Lat. to warn and Summonitio in our Law is a giving notice to appear in Court 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chief Angel For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God 1 Thes. 4. 16. V. 326. Thy dread Tribunal Thy dreadful Judgment Seat For we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord 2 Cor. 5. v. 10 11. Tribunal Lat. Ibid. From all Winds From all Parts and Quarters of the World from whence the Winds blow and take their Names Eurus ad auroram Nabathaeque regna recessit Persidaque radiis juga subdita matutinis Met. l. 1. They shall gather together his Elect from the four Winds Matth. 24. 31. V. 327. The cited Dead The Dead called to appear at the General Day of Doom And I saw the Dead small and great stand before God Rev. 20. 11 Citare and Citatio Lat. are Terms of the Civil Law signifying a calling one to answer an Accusation or Crime brought against him V. 329. Such a Peal Such a Sound shall awaken 'em from their long and lazy Lethargy He shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet Matth. 24. 31. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 With a Trumpet and loud Voice as the Original V. 331. They Arraigned shall sink They as soon as brought to that bright Bar self-accused and condemned shall sink down into Hell beneath thy Sovereign Sentence To Arraign is to bring a Prisoner to the Bar to hear the Accusation laid to his Charge of Arranger Fr. to set and digest Things into order by way of Proof in Tryals V. 334. The World shall burn The Heaven and the Earth which are now by the same Word are kept in store reserved unto Fire against the Day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly Men. But the Day of the Lord will come as a Thief in the Night in which the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat the Earth also and the Works that are therein shall be burnt up 2 Pet. 3. v. 7 and 10. Lucretius tells us the World shall be destroyed by a downfal Principio mare ac terras caelumque tuêre Horum naturam triplicem tria corpora Memmi Tres species tam dissimiles tria talia texta Una dies dabit exitio multosque per annos Sustentata ruet moles machina Mundi Lib. 5. Ovid affirms its Destruction shall be by Fire Esse quoque infatis reminiscitur affore tempus Quo mare quo tellus correptaque Regia Caeli Ardeat mundi moles operosa laboret Met. l. 1. Lucan agrees with him Hos Caesar populos si nunc non usserit ignis Uret cum terris uret cum gurgite tonti Communis mundo superest rogus ossibus astra Misturus Phar. l. 7. How this lower World and all therein may probably enough be liable to a General Conflagration is easie to imagine but how the Heavens the Celestial Bodies the Sun Moon and Stars those bright burning Beings which many of the Fathers as well as Philosophers believed to consist and be made of Fire shall be obnoxious to it is not so familiar to our Understandings Certain it is the World shall have an end Generation and Corruption shall cease Motion give place to Rest and Time to Eternity and then both the Elementary and Celestial Bodies having performed and finified their Function and all their Vicissitudes and manifold Mutations being determined shall be done away The Heavens the work of thy hands they shall perish but thou shalt endure yea all of them shall wax old like a Garment as a Vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed Psal. 102. 26. And with this agrees the Vision of St. John And I saw a great white Throne and him that sate on it from whose Face the Earth and the Heavens fled away and there was found no place for them Rev. 20. 11. V. 335. New Heaven and Earth Of which Isaiah Prophesied Behold I create new Heavens and a new Earth and the former shall not be remembred ch 65. v. 17. Confirmed by St. Peter Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new Heavens and a new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness 2 Pet. 3. 13. Foreseen by St. John And I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away Rev. 21. 1. The number of Beings subject to Generation and Corruption to encrease and decay will one day be compleat and fulfilled then the Heavenly Orbs the Elements the Earth and Sea the Causes and the Receptacles and Subjects of those many Mutations of Matter through the Vicissitudes of Time and Motion shall be no more And God will make another World more beautiful and much more glorious than this void of all Alteration incapable of Decay the House of Eternity V. 336. After Tribulations long After all the Afflictions of this Life Tribulatio Lat. Anguish Pain Suffering V. 337. See Golden Days As the Poets express'd the first happy Simplicity of the World by the Golden Age before that mischievous Metal was discovered to disturb it Aurea prima sata est aetas Ov. Met. 1. Toto surget gens aurea mundo Virg. Ecl. 4. V.
low and bending Sceptrumqut Sacerque Tiaras AEn 7. V. 627. Illustrious Fledge with Wings His shining Shoulders furnish'd with Wings Illustrious of Illustris Lat. bright Fledge of the Belg. Flederen to fly Young Birds are said to be Fledg'd when their Wings and Feathers are so well grown as to be able to waft their weight V. 628. Lay waving round Curling like the Circling Waves of the Sax. Warrian to move to and fro to wave or waver V. 634. But first he casts to change But first he casts and considers in his mind how he may so disguise himself as not to be discover'd by this sharp-sighted Angel seated in the Sun Proper Proprius Lat. particular peculiar V. 636. A Stripling Cherub A Youthful Angel not arrived at full Perfection yet such as Youth smiled Heavenly in his Face Stripling young not grown big slim and gaunt Not in his prime of Primus Lat. first chief Humane Membra aspetto human si finse Mà di Celeste Maestà il compose Tra giovine e fanciullo à confine Prose orno de raggi il biondo crine Tasso Cant. 1. St. 13. Description of Gabriel V. 639. So well he feigned Counterfeited disguised himself of Feindre Fr. to dissemble V. 640. Under a Coronet A little Crown Coronetta Ital. a Garland a Diminitive of Corona Lat. a Crown V. 642. Of many a Colour'd Plume Of divers Colour'd Feathers Pluma Lat. Feathers V. 643. His Habit fit for speed succinct His Garment girt about him Succinctus Lat. tuckt up Nigrâ succinctam vadere pallà Hor. Sat. 8. V. 644. Before his Decent Steps Before his Comely Feet Decens Lat. becoming Poetry is a speaking Picture and our Author has here described an Angel as they are commonly painted Ali bianchi vesti c'han d'or le cime Infaticabilmente agili epieste c. Read Torq Tasso of the Angel Gabriel Cant. 1. Stan. 13 14. V. 647. Admonish'd by his Ear Having notice given him of his approaching by his Ear. Admonere Lat. to inform V. 648. Th'Arch-Angel Uriel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Light or Fire thence called Gods Eye V. 660. Or his Name is deducibe of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Watchman as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one of Gods Watchmen which in this sense may well be named Gods Eyes V. 650. 2 Esd. 4. Vers. 1. and Chap. 5. Vers. 20. and 10. Vers. 28. V. 650. And are his Eyes c. According to the Golden Candlestick and his seven Lamps Zach. 4. Vers. 3. interpreted by the Angel Those seven they are the Eyes of the Lord which run to and fro through the whole Earth Vers. 10. agreeing with Chap. 3. Vers. 9. to which St. John's Vision refers Revel 4. Vers. 5. And there were seven Lamps of Fire burning before the Throne which are the seven Spirits of God And Chap. 5. Vers. 6. Having seven Horns and seven Eyes which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the Earth The Monarchy of Persia had seven Noblemen of great Dignity about their King and of extraordinary Trust called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Kings Eyes as Hesychius Suidas and Xenop in Paed. relate V. 653. Thus accosts Thus bespeaks of the old Fr. word Accoster to come near to as Men approach to converse together V. 656. His great Authentick Will His high and absolute Commands his uncontroulable Decree Authentick of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Powerful of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dominus qui pro Arbitrio Autoritate suâ quidvis agendi potestatem habet Well suiting the God of all Power and Might Interpreter Interpres Lat. one that expounds and makes known something delivered in a Language not commonly understood V. 658. His Sons The Angels styled Gods Sons for the Excellency of their holy Obedience to all his Commands And all the Sons of God shouted for joy Job 38. Vers. 7. V. 667. Brightest Seraph tell Inform me most Illustrious Angel Seraph the singular of Seraphim of which before Book 1. V. 129. V. 681. The False Dissembler unperceiv'd So spake this Fawning Hypocrite undiscover'd Unperceiv'd Imperceptus Lat. undiscern'd Dissembler of dissimulare Lat. to differ from what we seem to be to conceal and hide ones self in order to impose on others V. 683. Hypocrisie the only Evil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Dissimulation a Counterfeiting Virtue Religion and Piety the better to gain an Opinion of Sanctity and under that disguise covertly to commit all manner of Villany and Impiety A Wickedness kept often so secret and so well varnisht over that it may well be said to walk invisible to all but God himself Nay the Hypocrite supposes God himself does not discover the holy Cheat otherwise he would not persevere therein speaking Lyes in Hypocrisie having their Conscience seared with a hot Iron 1 Tim. 4. Vers. 2. Well therefore might our Saviour alone charge the Scribes and Pharisees with this dark and hidden Iniquity comparing them to whited Sepulchres which indeed appear beautiful outwards but within are full of dead Mens Bones and all Uncleanness Matth. 23. Vers. 27. In which Chapter he lays this Charge home to 'em by Name no less than seven times with a woful Denunciation of God's Wrath against 'em Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites Vers. 13 14 15 22 25 27 and 29. V. 686. Suspicion sleeps at Wisdoms Gate And oft though Men are wise yet if heedful Wariness stand not a Wakeful Sentinel at Wisdoms Gate if at any time she fall asleep and trust her Guard to easie Plainness and Simplicity who mistrusts no evil where none appears these fly Hypocrites will get in Suspicio Lat. mistrust and therefore Heedfulness Simplicitas a plain openness of Mind sine plicis that does not hide and involve it self Resigns of resignare Lat. to give up to surrender V. 692. To the Fraudulent Impostor To the deceiving Fiend to the sly Deceiver Fraudulentus Lat. deceitful Impostor a common Cheat a Jugler Ab imponendo Lat. from Cheating an admirable Epithet for Satan Sin being the most absolute Imposture imaginable V. 705. What Created Mind What Created Mind Spirit or Angel can conceive or understand the Number of Gods Works or the Infinite Wisdom in which he made 'em all and set 'em forth to view but concealed their Causes He hath made every thing beautiful in his time and given up the World to their Disputations so that no Man can find out the Work that God maketh from the beginning to the end Eccles. 3. Vers. 11. Foelix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas Comprehend of the Lat. Comprehendere V. 708. I saw when at his word c. I was by and beheld says Uriel how at his Almighty Word the shapeless Lump the slimy muddy Matter of this beauteous World rose from the Womb of Waters to a heap and came to fix into Firmness and Consistency Massa Lat.
Laxe Laxus Lat. wide large V. 163. My Word begotten Son By his Son by whom also he made the world Heb. 1. 2. Who created all things by Jesus Christ Eph. 3. 9. His name was called the Word of God Rev. 19. 13. In the beginning was the Word c. John 1. 1 14. The Platonists styled the Efflux and Emanation of the First Being or Eternal Mind 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Architect and Artificer of the World V. 165. My overshadowing Spirit and Might So is God's Holy Spirit styled The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the Power of the Highest shall overshadow thee Luke 1. 35. V. 166. The Deep That unconceivable state of Nonentity before the Creation The dark Abyss of Moses Darkness and the shadow of Death Job 12. 22. Privation of Being and Vacuity the Ancestors and Abominations of Nature Well express'd by an Immeasurable Unfathomable Deep described before by an Illimitable Ocean without Bounds Without Dimension where length breadth and height And Time and Place are lost Bo. II. V. 892. Void of all the modifications of Matter the limits and circumscriptions of Time and Place The unsearchable Judgments of God are compared to a great Deep Psal. 36. 7. nothing being more unaccountable except this dark Original of Nature this Emptiness Deformity and undiscoverable Deep this unaccountable Nothing out of which all things were framed unfathomable by Human Reasons finite Line but by our Author dived into as far as earthly Notions are capable of reaching V. 179. V. 168. Bâ—uâ—dless the Deep nor vacuous the Space For neither is the immeasurable Deep without its Bounds nor any space so vast as to be void and empty for I alone am Infiaite comprehend all my self incomprehensible beyond all bounds fill every place and am every where There is but One Infinitt Non potest esse virtus Infinita nisi unica eaque prima summa neque enim in Infinitis est majus Vacuous Vacuus Lat. empty Vacuity is the Enemy of Being and the Reluctancy of Nature Vacuum â—orret Natura fugitque bona Mundi partium dispositio omniumque câ—rpâ—â—um continuata series atque connexio Per. cap. 1. in Gen. Infinitude Infinitas Lat. Infinite Being belonging only to God infinite in all Perfection V. 170. Thô I uncircumscribed c. Thô uncontroâ—led I do my self conceal And shew not forth my Goodness at my choice How to create and when for force and chance Reach not to me unalterable I decree What e'er I please and what I will is fix'd My self retire God is supposed before the exerting of his Omuipotent Emanation in the Creation of the World and the manifestation of his Goodness by his wondrous Works to have concealed himself and retired into himself Monas ante mundi exordium sibi ipsi non aliis reluxit says Hermes Piman 12. wherein our Author gives the best Answer imaginable to the bold Question at Vers. 92. That the Sovereign Being retired into it self till of his own free Will he was pleased to make discoveries of his infinite Power and Goodness by creating the Universe Uncircumscrib'd unlimited of Circumscribere Lat. to bound and appoint V. 167. Immediate are the Acts of God The Works of God are performed all at once too swift and suddain to be measured by Time or Motion from which Time proceeds but yet canâ—oâ— be related to Human Ears but by degrees and orderly Succession 'T is a famous Question Whether the World were not created in an instant according to Eccles. 18. 1. Qui vivit in aeternum creavit omnia simul He who liveth for ever created all things together thô our Translation puts it out of doubt by rendring it In general Althô this Opinion seems agreeable to the Almighty Fiat to which our Author seems to incline thô he allows the Creation not easily to be conceivable by Human Understanding without a distinct Narration yet nothing can be objected why the World that was to have its beginning in time should not have a distinct and gradual Creation for it argues no weakness in the Almighty that he has been pleased to order all things in measure number and weight Wisd. 11. 20. who has revealed to us by his Prophet Moses Thus the Heaven and the Earth were finish'd and all the Host of them and on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made Gen. 2. 1 2. Neque verò hoc ullam arguit primae causae debilitatem non enim eam causam naturalem ponimus quaeque faciat semper quantum potest sed liberam sapientissimam quae facit ut maximè expedit atque omnia Pulcherrima Concinna in numero pondere mensurâ Vall. Phil. c. 1. Immediate Immediatus Lat. that hath nothing coming between suddain V. 179. As Earthly Notion As Human Understanding is capable of receiving Notio Lat. knowledge of Noscere Lat. to understand V. 182. Good will to future Men c. To Men yet unborn that were to come Luke 2. 14. V. 190. Into their vacant Room Into their empty Places dispeopled by their Rebellion Vacans of Vacare Lat. to be empty Longè saltus latéque vacantos Geo. 3. For a deferted Country V. 193. On his great Expedition Expeditio Lat. any warlike or great Undertaking Journey or Voyage Radiance Radiatio Lat. brightness Sapience Sapientia Lat. Wisdom V. 201. Between two brazen Mountains And behold there came four Chariots out from between two Mountains and the Mountains were Mountains of Brass Zech. 6. 1. V. 203. Celestial Equipage Heavenly Furniture ready at hand Equipage Fr. of the Lat. Equus a Horse Harnest made ready Of Harnois Fr. the Trappings of a Horse V. 204. Spontaneous Of themselves Of Spontaneus as this of Sponte Lat. freely V. 206. Her ever-during Gates Her everlasting Doors Lift up your heads oh ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors and the King of Glory shall come in Psal. 24. 7. Ever-during Eternal of Durare Lat. to last to be durable V. 212. Outrageous as a Sea dark wasteful wild The confusion of Chaos well set forth by a tempestuous dark wild Sea turn'd from the bottom up by raging Winds and roaring Waves that running Mountain high seemed to assault the stedfast Empyrean A description of the boiling Birth of Nature such at least as Earthly Notion can conceive Chaos rudis indigestaque moles Nec quicquam nisi pondus iners congestaque eodem Non bene junctarum discordia semina rerum Met. l. 1. Fills not our Conceptions with half so much confusion Into this wild Abyss The Womb of Nature and perhaps her Grave Of neither Sea nor Shore nor Air nor Fire But all these in their pregnant Causes mixt Confusedly c. Bo. II. V. 910. V. 215. And with the Center mix the Pole A perfect Idea of the fiercest Confusion taken from the Figure of a Sphere which must be broken all to pieces cramp'd and confounded into flatness before the Pole the extreme Point of