Abstract
Despite all attention that has been accorded of Paternal in book 6 of Paradise Lost, no one has sufficiently addressed Reformation underpinnings of Miltonic chariot.' Considering extent to which Milton both as poet and as polemicist was heir to spirit of Reformation, such an oversight is unfortunate. As Milton's crowning achievement, Paradise Lost is veritable embodiment of Reformation sensibility.2 Emerging at very midpoint of his great epic, Chariot of Paternal Deitie assumes both a narrative significance and a structural significance that distinguish it as an image of crucial importance to Paradise Lost. 3 As it rushes forth with whirlwind sound on the third sacred Morn of War in Heaven, chariot is described as Flashing thick flames, Wheel within Wheel undrawn, / It
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