..,1.11e1IRS 138 PARADISE LOST. BooK V. To intelleaual ; give both life and fenfe, 485 Fancy and underfianding ; whence the foul Reafon receives; and reafon is her being, Difcourtive, or intuitive ; difcourfe Is ofteft yours, the latter molt is ours ; Diff'ring but in degree, of kind the tame. 490 Wonder not then, what God for you law good If I refufe not, but convert, as you, To proper fubflance. Time may come, when men With Angels may participate, and find No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare r 495 And from thefe corporal nutriments, perhaps, Your bodies may at hit turn all to fpirit, Improv'd by tray of time ; and wing'd afcend Ethereal, as we; or may at choice, Here, or in heav'nly Paradifes dwell ; Soo If ye be found obedient, and retain Unalterably firm his love intire, Whole progeny you are. Mean while, enjoy Your fill what happinefs this happy Rate Can comprehend, incapable of more. 505 To whom the patriarch of mankind reply'd: O favorable fpirit, propitious gueft ! Well haft thou taught the way that might direa Our knowledge, and the fcale of nature let From center to circumterence ; whereon, In contemplation of created things, By Reps we may afcend to God. But fay, What meant that caution join'd, if ye be found Obedient ? Can we want obedience then To Him, or poflibly His love defert 515 Who form'd us from the dull, and plac'd us here, Full to the utmoft meafure of what bills Human defires can leek, or apprehend ?
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