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Virtuous and the Wicked, reserved
for another State.......

The Unreasonableness of denying a
Future State...........

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God declares the dreadful Consequence of Adam's Sin to him and his Posterity, unless Satisfaction is made to his Justice, which the Son of God undertakes.........

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Incidental Miseries attendant on Poverty..........

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Glynn ..... 297

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298 THE

BEAUTIES

OF THE

POETS.

ON

CREATION.

MILTON.

THE SOn

On His great expedition now appear'd,
Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crown'd
Of majesty divine; sapience and love
Immense, and all The Father in Him shone.
About His chariot numberless were pour'd
Cherub and Seraph, Potentates and Thrones,
And Virtues, winged Spirits, and chariots wing'd
From th' armoury of GOD, where stood of old
Myriads between two brazen mountains lodg'd
Against a solemn day, harness'd at hand,

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