Identifier: antiuniversalist01prie (find matches)
Title: The anti-universalists, or history of the fallen angels of the scriptures..
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Priest, Joseph. (from old catalog)
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s,like the very fibres of life, in joyous assemblage. She also wasformed as man, but more soft and tenderly made, in every limband feature, while in her eyes, there was the heaven of mildness,pouring forth their beams, as the fountains of life, beneath thesapphire throne of bliss. He heard them commune of joys:while each turned on the other looks of sweetness, beyond com-pare ; this moved his malice and hatred, which as a hell ofmoulten iron within his heart, raged a tempest; when Satanresolved their ruin, and straightway put in requisition all hiswiles, as he knew they could not be destroyed, except by beinginduced to disobey that one only law, or prohibition, of the treeand its fruit. Wherefore, it was not long ere he discovered theSerpent, or snake to be the subtilist beast of all the field, or ani-mals of the earth, and having found one of a prodigious size,and withal exceedingly beautiful, being covered with green andgold, striped and spotted with every shade and hue of the rain-
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ANGELS OF THE SCRIPTURES. 31 bow, or that tips the wings of beauteous fowls, and flowers ofearth, so ranged and mingled, that it seemed a creature fit to begazed upon even by angels. Into this serpent, in a moment Satantransfused himself, being a spirit, and took his seat in the brain ;by which he soon gave tone to the organs of the creature, so thatspeech rolled as fluently from his fiery tongue, as from the lipsof Eve herself. But according to this author, the incomparableMilton, the serpent was not then as now, prone on the ground,winding its way over the earth like a contemptible worm, draggingits snakey folds far behind; but was formed in a coil, a tower ofrising folds, like a cable to some stately ship, which the sailorbends in a ring, on the ample deck of a man of war, while itshead, with eyes of carbuncle or diamond, towered aloft, viewingall things far and wide, privileged in this respect also, as in thegift of cunning, above all the other beasts. Its motion, in thisform, was

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