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Confess him rightful King? unjust thou saist
The just Decree of God, pronounct and sworn,
Our happie state under one Head more neer [ 830 ]
How provident he is, how farr from thought
That equal over equals Monarch Reigne:
Flatly unjust, to binde with Laws the free,
United. But to grant it theｈｔｔｐ://ｗwｗ.９9ｌiｂ.nete unjust,
All things, evn thee, and all the Spirits of Heavn
One over all with unsucceeded power.
In place thy self so high above thy Peeres.
His Laws our Laws, all honour to him done
Canst thou with impious obloquie condemne
Such as he pleasd, and circumscribd thir being九九藏书? [ 825 ]
Returns our own. Cease then this impious rage, [ 845 ]
And tempt not these; but hastn to appease
Yet by experience taught we know how good,
O argument blasphemous, false and proud!
While Pardon may be found in time besought.
Thy self though great and glorious dost thou count,
And 藏书网of our good, and of our dignitie
Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers, [ 840 ]
Thee what thou art, and formd the Powrs of Heavn
One of our number thus reduct becomes,
Shalt thou give Law to God, shalt thou dispute
Th incensed Father, and th incensed Son,
As by his Word the mighty Fat99lib•nether made
Shall bend the knee, and in that honour due
To make us less, bent rather to exalt
Crownd them with Glory, and to thir Glory namd
That to his only Son by right endud [ 815 ]
But more illustrious made, since he the Head
With Regal Scepter, every Soule in Heavn
With him the points of libertie,
九-九-藏-书-网who made
By him created in thir bright degrees,
Words which no eare ever to hear in Heavn [ 810 ]
Expected, least of all from thee, ingrate
And equal over equals to let Reigne, [ 820 ]
Essential Powers, nor by his Reign obscurd,
Or all Angelic Nature joind in one,
Equal to him begotten Son, by whom [ 835 ]