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From all heaven's bounds into the utter deep;

There let them learn, as likes them, to despise

God, and Messiah, his anointed King.

He said, and on his Son with rays direct Shone full; He all his Father full expressed, Ineffably into his face received; And thus the filial Godhead answering spake:

O Father, O Supreme of heavenly Thrones, First, Highest, Holiest, Best, thou always seek'st To glorify thy Son; I always Thee, As is most just. This I my glory account, My exaltation, and my whole delight, That thou, in me well pleased, declarest thy will Fulfilled, which to fulfil is all my bliss. Sceptre and power, thy giving, I assume, And gladlier shall resign, when in the end Thou shalt be all in all, and I in Thee For ever, and in me all whom thou lovest: By whom thou hatest, I hate, and can put on Thy terrors, as I put thy mildness on, Image of Thee in all things; and shall soon, Armed with thy might, rid heaven of these rebelled,1 To their prepared ill mansion driven down, To chains of darkness, and the undying worm, That from thy just obedience could revolt, Whom to obey is happiness entire. Then shall thy saints, unmixed, and from the impure Far separate, circling thy holy mount, Unfeigned hallelujahs to Thee sing, Hymns of high praise, and I among them chief.

So said, He, o'er his sceptre bowing, rose

From the right hand of glory where he sat;

And the third sacred morn began to shine,

Dawning through heaven. Forth rushed with whirlwind sound

1 These rebelled.—Who have rebelled.