The Messiah
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE MESSIAH. BOOK. IX. THE ARGUMENT. Eloa returns from the throne of God, and relates what he ',has seen. The behaviour of Peter, who joins Samma and a stranger, and afterwards successively meets Leb- . bens, his brother Andrew, Joseph, and Nicodemus, and then returns to Golgotha, where he sees John, and the female friends of Jesus. A conversation between Abraham and Moses. They are joined by Isaac. Abraham and Isaac address the Messiah. A cherub conducts the souls of some pious heathens to the cross. Christ speaks to John and Mary. Abaddona, assuming the appearance of an angel of light, comes to the cross ; but being known by Abdiel, flks. Obaddon conducts the soul of Judas to the cross, then gives him a distant, view of heaven, and at length conveys him to hell. ELOA now filled with deep contemplation, s
...lowly hovered over the pinnacles of the temple, and then came to the assembly of the progenitors f the human race : whom he thus addressed : Before I communicate my thoughts, oh join in prayer with me. Ere I speak, I will offer my derations. All then, with humble prostration, m silence adored the Infinite and Eternal, and silent roie. Eloa still continued rapt in thought; but at last said: To the First of beings, to him whom no name Cn express, no thought conceive, I have just soared, desiring to see him face to face, in all his tremendous glory. I reached the suns that gild the radient path to heaven, and they were dimmed. 1 then ascended to the celestial throne, where darkness progressive deepened beyond darkness ; but no words can express the deepness of the sable cloud, in which the Eternal was involved, nor the awful terrors with which he was environed. I steod amidst the profound silence of the fair creation : I sunk prostrate, adoring the great Omnipot...
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