...considered himself 'church-outed by the prelates': his own visionary poetry, he hoped, would serve 'to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship'.3 Given that such intimate links existed between poets and the civic and ecclesiastical worlds,...

...Martyrs and Saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious Nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ, to deplore the general relapses of Kingdoms and States from justice and Gods true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in vertu amiable, or grave,...

...martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general...whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable0 or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiranon ' in all the changes of that which is called...

...fulfill the critical aim of the prophetic poet, announced in his Reason of ChurchGovernment (1642). "to deplore the general relapses of Kingdoms and States from justice and Gods true worship" (YP 1:81 7). Moreover, through a series of challenging historical lessons, Adam...

...is worthy to stand before the sanctuary of Truth, and to be the priestess of her oracles. "Whatever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable...without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thought from within:"* whatever is pitiful in the weakness, sublime in the strength, or terrible in...