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So spake the fervent Angel, but his zeale
None seconded, as out of season judgd, [ 850 ]
Or singular and rash, whereat rejoicd
Th Apostat, and more haughty thus replid.
That we were formd then saist thou? and the work
Of secondarie hands, by task transferd
From Father to his Son? strange point and new! [ 855 ]
Doctrin which we would know whence learnt: who saw
When this creation was? rememberst thou
Thy making, while the Maker gave thee being?
We know no time when we were not as now;
Know none before us, self-begot, self-raisd [ 860 ]
By our own quickning power, when fatal course
Had circld his full Orbe, the birth mature