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And hear the din. Thus was the building left Ridiculous, and the work Confusion named.1

Whereto thus Adam, fatherly displeased O execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren; to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation, but man over men He made not lord; such title to Himself Reserving, human left for human free. But this usurper his encroachment proud Stays not on man; to God his tower intends Siege and defiance! Wretched man! what food Will he convey up thither, to sustain Himself and his rash army, where thin air Above the clouds, will pine his entrails gross, And famish him of breath, if not of bread?

To whom thus Michael: Justly thou abhor'st That son, who on the quiet state of men Such trouble brought, affecting to subdue Rational liberty; yet know withal, Since thy original lapse, true liberty Is lost, which always with right reason dwells, Twinned, and from her hath no dividual being. Reason in man obscured, or not obeyed, Immediately inordinate desires And upstart passions catch the government From reason, and to servitude reduce Man, till then free. Therefore, since he permits, Within himself, unworthy powers to reign Over free reason, God, in judgment just,

The work Confusion named .- "And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in valley of Shipar to an all the make brick, and burn them thoroughly." the valley of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.

And they had brick for And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us make brick, and out to the said they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach more than the scattered abroad upon the face of the whole whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

And they said, Go to, let us build us a determinant of the whole earth.

And they said, Go to, let us build us a determinant of the whole earth.

And they said, Go to, let us build us a determinant of the whole earth. earth. . . . And the Lord came down to see the city and tower," &c., &c. (Gen. xi. 2, et seq.)