Boole V. PARADISE LOST. Our minds, and teach us to call off this yoke ? Will ye fubmit your necks, and chute to bend The fupple knee ? Ye will not, if I truft To know ye right ; or if ye know your (elves Natives and Ions of heav'n, poffefl before By none. and if not equal all, yet free, Equally free : for orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well confift. Who can in reafon then, or right, affume Monarchy over fuch as live by right His equals, if in pow'r and fplendor lets, In freedom equal ? or can introduce Law and edid on us, who without law Err not, much leis for This to he our Lord, And look for adoration, to th' abufe Of thole Imperial Titles, which affect Our being ordain'd to govern, not to ferve ? '47 790 795 800 Thus far his bold difcourfe without controul Had audience ; when among the Seraphim,. Abdiel, (than whom none with more zeal ador'd The Deity, and divine commands obey'd) 8o5 Stood up, and in a flame of zeal levere, The current of his fury thus oppos'd. 0 argument blafphemous, falfe and proud Words which no ear ever to hear in heav'n 810 Expeded, leaft of all from Thee, in,,rate In place thy 'elf fo high above thy peers.. Gantt thou with impious obloquy condemn The juft decree of God, pronounc'd and ;Worn ; That to His only Son, by right indu'd With regal feeptre, every foul in heav'n Shall bend the knee, and in that honor due. Could's him rightful King ? Unjult, thou iay'ft, Flatly
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