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: His gifts rejected, and His wrath defied; r4 Yet was the judgment without wrath pronounc’d, And mercy promis’d when the sentence pass’d. On woman sorrow and dependance fell,4 Her heavy lot, but for her weaker frame, Which, more than man’s, with greater strength endued, Requir’d support, the words of comfort came, so And on the Man, who still maintain’d his rule O'er the creation which all fell with him, Fell sorrow, toil, and care, and, for his sake, The curse of barrenness upon the Earth, And death to both, with loss of Paradise.5 95 4 Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shall bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.?Gen. iii. 16. 5 And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, andthou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.?Gen. iii. 17, 18, 19. But on the Serpent, as the cause of ill, (The evil power in a shape assum’d, ) Fell, with a fearful curse, the wrath Divine, Which leaves no hope, but dooms eternal wo.
Because thou hast done this thou art ac- curs’d ?e 90 And in that curse the promise was declar’d That woman’s seed should bruise the serpent’s head;r The hope of triumph over death to Man, Death without hope to disappointed sin. 0 And the Lord God said unto the Serpent, ?Because thou hast done this, t…