In yonder nether world where shall I seek His bright appearances, or foot-step trace?

This most afflicts me, that, departing hence, as from his face I shall be hid, deprived of his blessed countenance: here I could frequent with worship place by place where he vouchsafed Presence Divine. When the Pair hear of their expusion from Eden, Adam says this: here let us live, though in fallen state, content.' Acknowledging her part in the Fall, Eve pledges to Adam, 'I never from thy side henceforth to stray, where'er our day's work lies, though now enjoined laborious. The Archangel Michael is chosen to carry out the mission of driving Adam and Eve from the Garden, and to 'guard all passage to the tree of life.'Īdam expresses to Eve his fundamental faith in God's goodness: 'Eve, easily may faith admit, that all the good which we enjoy from Heaven descends. But the Father declares that the Pair must leave Eden, for 'longer in that Paradise to dwell the law I gave to Nature him forbids,' and to keep man from eating of the tree of life which would serve, 'but to eternize woe,' for God's mercy 'provided death' as a 'final remedy' for a life of sin. Thus the breaking of relationship accomplished in sin and Fall is restored in the Son. to better life shall yield him where with me all my redeemed may dwell in joy and bliss made one with me, as I with thee am one. As book ten ended, Adam and Eve were bowing in worship and sincere repentance to God for their failures, so book eleven opens with heaven's response, God's grace in His Son, offering Himself as 'advocate and propitiation,' so that:

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