bower of Adam and Eve there, iv. 690. the parade, watches, &c. of the guardian angels in Paradise, iv. 778, 782, 861, 977. the hill there, from whence Michael discovers to Adam in vision what should happen to the time of the flood, xi. 377. Adam and Eve's expulsion from Paradise de- scribed, xii. 625. the flaming sword, &c. guarding the east gate of it, 632. the seat of it destroyed by Noah's flood, xi. 829. (Vide Similies.) Passions inordinate, an effect of Adam's fall, ix. 1120. Patriarchal government, from the flood to Nimrod's tyranny, xii. 13. Patriarchs, (Abraham's, &c.) their story related, xii. 113. Peace, the corruptions of it equal
to the wastes of war, xi. 783. Peor or Chemos, (a fallen angel,) i. 412.
Persecution in matters spiritual,
the rise of it, xii. 508-533. its effects, 533. Phlegethon, (a river of hell,) ii.
Plagues of Egypt described, xii. 173.
Planets and moon, their noxious
motions, aspects, &c. an effect of Adam's fall, x. 656. Pleasures sensual censured, xi. 603.
Poles, north and south, perpetual day under both, but for Adam's fall, x. 668, 680.
Prayer, the efficacy of its spirit,
xi. 5, 14, 146. unavailable against God's absolute decrees, 311.
Predestination defined, iii. 111. Priests occasion the first dissen-
sion in the Jewish church and state, xii. 353.
Prosopopæia, on Eve's cating
the forbidden fruit, ix. 782. on Adam's, 1000.
Rainbow, its first appearance after Noah's flood, xi. 865. sign of God's covenant to destroy the world no more by water, 895.
Ramiel, Ariel, and Arioc, (fallen angels,) vanquished, vi. 369. Raphael (the Archangel), his descent to Paradise to warn Adam against his fall, v. 247. his person described, 276. an- swer to Adam's invitation to his bower, and entertainment there, 371, 404. salutation of Eve, 388. discourse with Adam on various subjects, v. 468. to viii. 651. on the perfection, va- riety, and gradual economy of the creation, v. 468–543. on obedience, as a duty of choice, not necessity, 520-543. on the revolt and defeat of the fallen angels,577-897. thence warns him against Satan's tempta- tions, vi. 893. vanquishes As- madai, and puts him to flight, 363. on the creation, &c. vii. 111-640. on the motion, ap- pearances, and influences of the celestial and terrestrial bodies, viii. 15-178. reply to Adam's account of himself on his creation, &c. 560. re- ply to his question concerning love, and the expression of it in spirits celestial, 620. advice to Adam at parting, and re- ascent to heaven, 630. (Vide Similies.)
Reason, and free-will, the same, iv. 95, 108. ix. 350. the chief faculty of the soul, v. 100. the being of the soul, discursive of men, intuitive of angels,
486. in animal creatures, viii. 369. the law of nature, ix. 653. correlative with liberty, xii. 83. with virtue, 97. Redemption of man, proposed by God the Father, iii. 203. undertaken by God the Son, 227.
Repentance, the grace of God, iii.
185. sincere endeavours to- wards it acceptable, 191. an act of it, x. 1086. its efficacy, xi. 22. Reprobation, the state of it, iii. 198.
Reptiles, part of the sixth day's
creation, described, vii. 475. Revolt, and defeat of the fallen angels, v. 577. to vi. 892. Rimmon, (a fallen angel,) i. 467.
Sabbath, its institution, the seventh, after the six days' creation, vii. 581.the solemnity of it described, 594. Salvation, not only to the sons of Abraham's loins, but his faith, xii. 449.
Satan, (the prince of the fallen angels,) his fall from heaven, i. 34. why so called, i. 81. v. 657. speech to Beelzebub, after their fall, i. 84. reply to Beelze- bub's answer, 157. ascent from hell, 192. his stature, looks, &c. described, 193. iv. 985. v. 706. speech to Beelzebub thereon, i. 242. his shield described, 284. his spear, 292. speech to the other fallen angels, 315. his standard described, 531. speech to the fallen angels reimbattled, 622. calls a council, 752. speech to them in council, ii. 11. un- dertakes an attempt on the world, (the result of it,) 430, 465. ascent to the gates of hell,
629. speech to Death there,681. the father of Sin, and Death, 727. answer to Sin's speech, 737. to her reply, 817. flight into Chaos, 917. arrival at the court of Chaos, 951. speech there, 968. brought in and Death first into the world, 1024. ascent to light, &c. 1034. alights on the convex of the world's outermost orb, iii. 418. view of the world from the first step to heaven gate, 540. de- scent to it described, 561. stops at the sun,588. discovers Uriel, the angel of it, there, 621. transforms himself to a cherub, 634. speech to Uriel, 654. deceives him, 681. is directed by him to the world, 724. and Paradise, 733. alights on mount Niphates, 739. solilo- quy, contemplating the sun, iv. 32. the first hypocrite, 121. arrives at Paradise, 131. sits on the tree of life, 194. solilo- quy on view of Adam and Eve in Paradise, 358. descends from the tree of life, and as- sumes several animal shapes, 395. listens to Adam's dis- course with Eve, on God's prohibition of the tree of knowledge, 408. soliloquy on the subject of it, 505. resolves thence to tempt them to dis- obedience, 512. first attempt in the assumed shape of a toad, on Eve asleep, 799. answer to Ithuriel and Zephon, repre- hending him thereon, 827. reply to their answer, 854. answer to Gabriel, 886. reply to his answer, 925. to another, 968. the inauguration of God the Son, the occasion of his revolt, v. 657. speech to the next subordinate angel of his party thereon, 673. the seat of his hierarchy before his fall,
described, 756. speech to the angels of his hierarchy thereon, 772. reply to Abdiel's answer, on his speech to the hierarchs of his party, 853. his army de- scribed, vi. 79. his port, and post there, 99. answer to Ab- diel's reply, 150. battle be- tween his and the celestial army, described, 205-385. his prowess in the battle, 246. encounters Michael, 253. an- swer to Michael's speech there- on, 281. the combat described, 296. wounded by him, 320. carried off, 335. his army de- feated, 386. retreats, and calls a council, 414. speech in council, 418. reply to Nisroch there, 469. gives the word for renewing the battle, 458. re- newed by his army, and the second battle described, 569, 670. speech on the celestial army's retreat, 608. his army's entire defeat and expulsion from heaven described, 831- 877. returns from compassing the earth to Paradise by night, in a mist, in order to his tempt- ation, ix. 53. his circuit, &c. described, 62. soliloquy there- on, 99. enters the serpent, 182. view (in that shape) of Eve, 424. soliloquy thereon, 473. behaviour to her, 523. speech to her, 532. reply to her answer, 567. the discourse (his temptation of Eve to eat the forbidden fruit) continued,732. leaves her after eating it, 784. his sentence thereon (virtually) pronounced by God the Son, x. 171. returns to hell to avoid his presence in Paradise, 337. meets Sin and Death upon their journey to the world on Adam's, &c. fall, 345. answer to Sin's speech, 383. parts with them, 410. ascends his throne
at Pandemonium, 443. speech to the fallen angels assembled there, 459. applauded with a hiss, 504. he and they trans- formed to serpents, 510. far- ther punished with an illusion of the forbidden fruit, 549. both annually continued, 575. him- self (the serpent) dragged in chains at the ascension of the Messiah, xii. 453. dissolution (with the world) at his coming to judgment, 545. (Vide Si- milies.)
Saturn, (a fallen angel,) i. 512. Scriptures how to be understood, xii. 511.
Seasons, their changes, respect- ing each clime, an effect of Adam's fall, x. 677. Serpent described, ix. 182. after entered by Satan, 495. his sentence(formally) pronounced by God the Son, as the as- sumed tempter of Eve, x. 163, 175. (Vide Similies.) Sidereal blasts, &c. an effect of Adam's fall, x. 692.
Adam and Eve, after their fall— to the Americans, at first seen by Columbus, ix. 1115. their repentance-to Deucalion and Pyrrha's address to restore human race after their flood, xi. 8.
Adam caressing Eve-to Jupiter
with Juno (May-showers,) iv. 499. his address to her sleep- ing-to Zephyrus breathing on Flora, v. 15. bower-to Po- mona's arbour, 377. desires to know the story of the creation, prior to his own to thirst unallayed, increasing, vii. 66. awaked after carnal fruition, the first effect of his fall-to Samson shorn by Dalilah, ix.
1059. sorrow on the vision of Noah's flood-to a father's mourning his children all de- stroyed in his view at once, xi. 760. Angels celestial, the spears (of the guardians of Paradise)—to ears of corn ripe for reaping, iv. 980. their march against Satan's army-to that of the birds in Paradise to receive their names from Adam, vi. 72. their hallelujahs-to the sound of seas, x. 642. (ap- pointed to expel Adam, &c. from Paradise)-their faces to a double Janus (four,) xi. 128. their eyes—to those of Argus, 129. their appearance there- to the angels appearing to Jacob in Mahanaim, 213. to those in Dothan against the king of Assyria, 216. their motion to an evening mist, xii. 628. Angels fallen (or infernal)—to
autumnal leaves, i. 802. to floating sea-sedge after a storm, 304. rousing at Satan's com- mand-to centinels waking from sleep on duty, 331. im- battling against the angels ce- lestial to the Egyptian plague of locusts, 338. to the irrup- tions of the northern bar- barians, 351. their disposition to engage to that of the heroes of antiquity, 549. with them the greatest armies in all ages since the creation- pigmies, 573. themselves-to oaks or pines blasted, 612. their searching, &c. for the materials of Pandemonium-to pioneers intrenching, &c. 675. their manner of raising it-to the wind of an organ, 705. as- sembling thereat--to bees,768. to pigmies, 780. to fairies,
781. their applause of Mam- mon's speech in council-to the hollow wind after a storm, ii. 285. their rising from coun- cil-to thunder afar off, 476. their pleasure on the result- to the evening sun after a foul day, 488. their after various pursuits, passions, &c.—to the Olympic, or Pythian games, 530. to the phænomena of armies in the clouds, 533. to Hercules on Eta, 543. their numbers composing Satan's army against the celestials-to the stars, v. 745. to the dew drops, 746. their applause of Satan's reply to Abdiel—to the sound of deep waters, 872. thronged together after their entire defeat by God the Son- to a herd of goats, vi. 856. their retreat to Pandemonium from the frontiers of hell, during Satan's expedition to the world -to the Tartars' flight before the Russ-and the Persian from the Turk-wasting the intermediate country, x. 431. transformation to serpents-to those sprung from the gorgon's blood, &c. 526. their appear- ance on the tree illusive of the forbidden fruit-to the snaky hair of Megara (one of the furies,) 558. the fruit-to the apples of Sodom, 561. Chaos. Atoms, their motion-to the Libyan quicksands, ii. 900. confusion there-to storming a town, 920. to heaven and earth (supposed) falling, &c. 924.
Death, and Sin, their making a
bridge over Chaos to the world -to polar winds, driving the ice together in the (supposed) north-east passage, x. 289. the work-to Neptune's fixing the
isle of Delos, 293. to Xerxes making a bridge over the Hellespont, 306.
Death's instinct of Adam's fall-
to the flight of birds of prey to a field of battle, x. 273. his and Satan's frowns on each other -to two thunder clouds meet- ing, ii. 714.
Eve her hair-to the vine's tendrils, iv. 305. her looks-to the first blush of morning, v. 122. herself to Pandora, iv. 713. to a wood-nymph, or Venus, v. 379. to a Dryad, or Delia (Diana,) ix. 387. to Pales or Pomona, 393. to Ceres, 395. her temptation by Satan -alluded to by the story of Ophion and Eurynome, x. 578. Flaming sword in Paradise, on Adam's and Eve's expulsion thence to a comet, xii. 632. its heat, &c.-to the Libyan air, 634. Hell-to mount Etna (in Sicily,)
i. 230. to the bog or lake Serbonis (in Palestine,) ii. 592. Knowledge, the desires of it-to
a thirst unallayed, increasing, vii. 66.
Michael, his combat with Satan -to two planets (the frame of nature, supposed, dissolved) rushing in opposition to each other, vi. 310. appearance to expel Adam, &c. from Paradise
to a man in a military vest, &c. xi. 239. Pandemonium (or the court of hell) its sudden rise to an exhalation, i. 710 Paradise, the air of it-to the
effluvia from Arabia Felix, at sea, iv. 159. itself to the field of Enna (in Sicily,) 268. to the grove of Daphne, &c. (in Thessaly,) 272. to the isle of Nysa, (where Bacchus was
brought up,) 275. to mount Amara (in Ethiopia), 280. to the gardens of Adonis, ix. 439. of Alcinous, 440. of Solomon, 442. Raphael, his view of the world in his descent from heaven to Paradise-to that of the moon through an optic glass, v. 261. of Delos or Samos from the Cyclades (isles), v. 264. himself --to a phoenix, 271. to Mer- cury, 285. Satan-to Briareus, Typhon, and the Leviathan, i. 199, 201. to the sun rising in a mist, 594. in eclipse, 596. to the longest train of a comet, ii. 707. to mount Teneriff or Atlas, iv. 985. his shield-to the moon, i. 284. his spear-to a mast, 292. his standard-to a meteor, 337. the phænomenon of his ascent to hell-gates-to a fleet in the offing, ii. 636. his, and Death's frowns on each other -to two thunder-clouds meet- ing, 714. flight to the court of Chaos to a griffin's in the wilderness, 943. towards hea- ven-to (the ship) Argo through the Thracian Bos- phorus, i. 1016. to Ulysses's voyage between Scylla and Charybdis, ii. 1019. arrival at light, &c.-to a weather- beaten vessel towards port, 1043. on the convex of the world's outermost orb-to a vulture seeking his prey, iii. 431. first view of the world— to a scout's casual prospect (after a dangerous journey) of a new country or city, 543. of the stars' orbs-to the Hesperian gardens, &c. 568. appearance in the sun's orb -to a spot in it differing from all astronomical observ-
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