describ'd: Satan and his Powers retire under Night: he calls a
Councel, invents devilish Engines, which in the second dayes
Fight put Michael and his Angels to some disorder; But they at
length pulling up Mountains overwhelm'd both the force and
Machins of Satan: Yet the Tumult not so ending, God on the
third day sends Messiah his Son, for whom he had reserv'd the
glory of that Victory. Hee in the Power of his Father coming to
the place, and causing all his Legions to stand still on either
side, with his Chariot and Thunder driving into the midst of his
Enemies, pursues them unable to resist towards the wall of
Heaven; which opening, they leap down with horror and
confusion into the place of punishment prepar'd for them in the
Deep: Messiah returns with triumph to his Father.

All night the dreadless Angel unpursu'd
Through Heav'ns wide Champain held his way, till Morn,
Wak't by the circling Hours, with rosie hand
Unbarr'd the gates of Light. There is a Cave
Within the Mount of God, fast by his Throne,
Where light and darkness in perpetual round
Lodge and dislodge by turns, which makes through Heav'n
Grateful vicissitude, like Day and Night;
Light issues forth, and at the other dore
Obsequious darkness enters, till her houre 10
To veile the Heav'n, though darkness there might well
Seem twilight here; and now went forth the Morn
Such as in highest Heav'n, arrayd in Gold
Empyreal, from before her vanisht Night,
Shot through with orient Beams: when all the Plain
Coverd with thick embatteld Squadrons bright,