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Father of Mercie and Grace, thou didst not doome So strictly, but much more to pitie encline: No sooner did thy dear and onely Son Perceive thee purpos'd not to doom frail Man So strictly, but much more to pitie enclin'd,

Mitchell, J. Allan. "Reading God Reading “Man”: Hereditary Sin And The Narrativization Of Deity In Paradise Lost, Book 3." Milton Quarterly 35.2 (2001): 72. Academic Search Complete. Web. 22 Oct. 2014.


"In other words, the narrative texture and mimic quality of the poem
consistently confound and not infrequently disqualify
the ideological structure which subtends it."

paraphrase: The structure of the poem seems to surprise the audience when referencing to God's behavior, yet the actions are not untrue to the beliefs of the time.
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