Descends, thither with heart, and voice, and eyes
Directed in devotion, to adore
And worship God supreme, who made him chief
Of all his works.”
Here Milton describes Man as being—1. Self-knowing. That is the root. 2. Thence, great souled, and communicating with Heaven. 3. Thence also acknowledges himself as dependent. 4. Still thence grateful for the good. 5. Still thence adoring, praising. 6. From his height of Being—as chief of God’s works here below.
SEWARD.
He knows himself.
That is to say, he knows the God-like and God-allied and God-tending in his nature.
He knows his Nature as exalted—as capable for divine communions and influences, aspirations, joys, desires.
And knowing this, he boldly cherishes these desires and joys—aspires to these communions.