BooK XII. PARADISE LOST. As to forfake the living God, and fall To worthip their own work in wood, and flone, For Gods ! Yet him God the Mott High vouchfafes To call by vifion, from his father's houfe, 121 His kindred, and fal(e Gods ; into a 13nd Which he will thew hum : and from him will raife A mighty nation ; and upon him thow'r His benedidion fo, that in his feed 125 All nations (hall be blefi he (bait obeys ; Not knowing to what land, yet firm believes. I fee him, (but thou canft not) with what faith He leaves his Gods, his friends, and native foil Ur of Chaldxa, palling now the ford 130 To Haran after him a cumbrous train Of herds, and flocks, and numerous fervitude : Not wandring poor, but trusting all his wealth With God, who cared him, in a land unknown. Canaan he now attains ; 1 fee his tents 135 Pitch'd about Sechem, and the neighb'ring plain Of Moreh. There, by promife he receives Gift to his progeny of all that land ; From Hamath northward, to the Defert fouth ; (Things by their names I call, tho' yet unnam'd) From Hermon eaft, to the great weftern lea ; 141 Mount Hermon ! yonder lea ! (each place behold In profpe6t, ss I point them) on the (bore Mount Carmel ; here the double-bunted ftream, Jordan, true limit eaftward : but his Ions 145 Shall dwell to Seir, that long ridge of hills ! This ponder, that all nations of the earth Shall in his feed be blared by that feed Is meant thy Great Deliverer, who (ball bruife The ferpenes,head ; wh( reof to thee anon iso Plainlier thall be reward. This Patriarch bleft. (Whom faithful Abraham due time (ball call) 335 A
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