LXIV. The Law is given from Mount Sinai in O Sinai next, the Mount of God, they came, Fehova calls, and bids the Camp prepare, Archangels now th amazing Trumpets found, Which from th' Arabian Deep, and Western Shores rebound: Heark how th' unfufferable Thunders tear Both Earth and Heav'n! while forky Lightnings glare, And with blue Flames transfix the ambient Air: Trembled the Camp, the folid Mountain shakes, And Earth beneath it, to the Centre quakes: Red Volcans from its mould'ring Top expire, Extinguish Day, and damp the Lightnings Fire. The Lord defcends, the Thund'rers Voice is known, The Holy Myriads guarding round his Throne: The Ten dread Words from Sinai he recites, Which his own Hand in Marble Tables writes Great Natures Tranfcript, and Eternal Law, Whence future Sages fhall their Models draw, Wife Greece and haughty Rome are here furpafs'd, Each Word, each Tittle here fhall Earth and Heav'n out-laft. LXIV. EXODUS, Chap. XIX. and Chap. XX. 115 Chap. xix. V. 18. Mount Sinai was altogether on afmoke, because the Lord defcended upon it in fire: and the fmoke thereof afcended as the fmoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 20. And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Mofes up to the top of the mount, and Mofes went up. 21. And the people ftood afar off, and Mofes drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. то LXV. The Altar and Tabernacle. O Mofes God the facred Model fhows, Figure of heavenly Things in Shades conceal'd, Next fee the Court whofe fpacious Curtains joyn, With Feet unhallow'd to invade the Room: But what the Veil conceals we can't furvey, } Here Faith muft ftop,forHeav'n can give no more! Here Modeft Seraphs veil their Faces, and adore. LXV. EXODUS, Chap. XXV. Ver. 8, 9, 10. 17, 18. 22. Chap. XXVII. to the End. 117, Chap. xxv. V. 8. Let them make me a fanctuary; that I may dwell amongst them. 9. According to all that I fhew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the inftruments thereof, even fo fhall ye make it. 10. And they fhall make an ark of Shittim-wood: 11. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, &c. Chap. xxvii. V. 1. And thou shalt make an altar of Shittim-wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar fhall be four-fquare, and the height thereof fhall be three cubits. 2. And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns fhall be of the fame: and thou WH LXVI. The Golden Calf. Hile Mofes in the Mount with God remain'd, Shameful Idolatry the People ftain'd: Their Leader abfent, who fhou'd them protect? Rejecting him they God himself reject: A Golden Calf the Crowd in Horeb frame, And for their Idol fteal Jehova's Name, Then thus the gaudy Nothing's Praise proclaim. "Hail, facred Heifer! thus we bow to thee, "Who Ifrael didft from Egypts Bondage free: "Oide us thro' this barren World of Sand, "And bring us fafe to Canaans blissful Land! From him not hid, who ev'n our Thoughts can fee, Their Black Ingratitude, and Blafphemy: "Hence to the Camp descend, nor longer here remain! "Thy People, (mine no more, they my Commands difdain,) "Whom thou from Egypt brought'ft, fo foon corrupted grown, "New Golden Gods adore, their Fathers God disown: cr Confirm'd and steel'd in Sin, of harden'd Heart and Face, "My Vengeance I'll unrein on all their murm'ring Race, Low |