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Show Tbefirst Booke ofrebe rst pars) Cu AP.3.Ger Gi WLI. ante ceafing cealt tocreate any more: : and of the canfeethereof,of; becaufe OfGods ife the Vwinerfal ifall l créacrea ted was exceedingtoon. NY N this worke ofMan, Godfinifhed the, Creation ; not that God laboured asa [= and therefore refted : for God commanded, and it wasfinifhed, Ci volu. iffe eftfeci{fexmith whom,to will ito make, faith Beda, Neitherdid God foreft, ‘that hee left the World'tiade, and the creatures therein to themfelues : for my Father worketh tothis day (faith Chrif?) and Tworke-but Godrefted (that is) he created no new Jfpecies ot Kinds of cteatitves, but (as afore-faidgaue Vato man a powergeneratiue, andy {o to the reft of liuing creatures,and to Plants and Flowers their feeds in them{elues 3 and commandéd'man to multiply and - - peed Reece S¢ea'to bring forth creatures according to their feuerall kinds:all which Cusr3$.2.- oftheEiftorie ofthe World, 29 Null wnquam dedit omnia Deus; eM meeeene the knowledge ofallthings to any one, Saint 2 COP 20d, Paul conteft. that Ne Rode hee knew nd eo,a not,CREIe e whether he were e taken vp into thethird heaueninec int ene Men, nor Angels knew of thelatter day ; and therfore, feeing knowledgeisinfinite: itis God(according to S, bude) who is only wiles. Sepiemtia vbijowenitur ? faith T 6 3 ieee byt where is wifedome found? and where is the place of underHanding? man knoweth nor '0b 28.12, the price thereof, for it 4s notfoundin the Land of the lining, And therefore feeingGopn 333 foundfolly in his Angels, mens iudgements (which inhabite in houfes of clap} cinaat 4118 bewithoutthcir miftakings : and {o the Fathers, and other learned ‘en, excites xo particulars,efpecially inthofe whereuponourfaluation dependeth not. §. IL. being finifhed, Godfawthat : ey : his works were goodsnotthat hé fore-knewnot,and comprehended notthé beginning and end before they were;for God made cuery Plant ofthe-field'before®it was in the Earth, but, he gauetoall things which hee had created thename ofgood, thereby to <n é ArecitallofPrange ena touching Paradife, Ne touching Paredi/2, firftitistobec inquired, whether there were a Parad a, ornio? or whether 4do/¢s defcription were altogether myfticall, & allegorical feé& goodjand from -whofe fimple puritieand from{o excellent a caufe,there could proceed.no'impure or imperfed effect.For mai +hauing free will andliberal! choice, pur- names ofthole foure Riuers, Pifon, Gehon, Hidekel, and Perath, the tree of Life, and the tree of Knowledge, there were deliuered vnto'vs other myfterics and fignifications Bass teach megjthat from fo good a. God there was nothing made, but that which was per- chafed by, difobedience his owne: death and :mortalitic, and forthe ‘crueltie of mans jo heart,was the Earth afterward curfed,and all creatures ofthe firt Age deftroyed : but the righteous man Woah and his Family, with thofe creatures which the Arke contayned, referued by Godto replenifh the Earth. : Th Rie Se, CHaP "Ss II 3 Of the place of Paradife, ny halt a ae SAB fsibocobrs Seron A pe ; bs 2 sae . That the feate ofParadife isgreatly mifiaken:and that it is 20 maruell that men‘fhauld errei i Oncerning the firft Habitatiorrofman, we reade, that she Lord Godplan: I eed a Garden Eaftwardin Eden,and there he DHE Phe sais wheiesbe made3: aul] Gen.2.6.Of this featéandplaceof ‘Paradife,all Ages haue held difpute; ; BY and the opinions and iudgements halie beene in effect,as ditiers, among TA4) thofe that haue written vpon this part of Genefis. as Vpon any aie place therein feeming moft obfeure : fomethere are. thit hac ediiceied the beine ofthe tetrefttiall Paradife, withoutorany all regard ofthe Worlds Geogtaphic, ahd without any refpestof Eatt and Welt, confidération of the place where Mplee Varore, and 3 fromwhencehe direéted(by the quarters of thé Heauens )the way how to find out and iudge; in What Regist of the World this Garden Was by God planted. wheeein hee 4 > was exceeding refpectiu e and precife. Others, by being themifelties ignorant in the Hebrew, followed the 'firlt Interpretation, of trufting to their owne iudgements, va- derfts6ulOne place for another: sandone Errdur is fo fruitful! as i beset hon fand' Childten,ifthe licentioufircite thereof bee Hot timely hedge d Andthirdly thofe'Writers whick gauethemfelues to followand imitaré thers wile in ail hinge fo obferuant Seétarouts of thofe Matters , whom they admired sad belesied in oF they thought it fafer to condemne their owne vndérftandins thin ts examine cnet; For faith adjanatih his Epiftle. of Parailife Magnes an a Hic THES runs ancloritate perfua/t tranfmittimus . Wee Palle ower mix voll 8 {5 hy the anthoritie of creat mcm led and perfwaded. And it ic true, tua fe jf Reeetier ifarre wide fF mdemana: ey ra + felfedare; Mina ae e this Place. Tipeake it not, that I my Piednih yet noe tyaiiha s PollByithetado! feces eeSee ee truth fon they were men': "Et himanans eft wat And z i Rt one a fhould proude ofof hihimiclte, fel fe God CG Be diftribut spa on bee© proude tHe fuch end thac AQ ma hath ed vnto women 4 proporti on of Knowledge, as the wifeft may behold in themfelues their owne weakenefle : Noli as Origen, Philo, Fran. Georgius, with others haueaffirmed ; 2nd that ynder the 2othat by the foure Ritiers were meant the foure Cardinall vertues, saflice, Temperance, jeri[ime Fortitude; and Prudence, or(by other) Oyle,Wine, Milke, and Honny. This Allegoricall vnderftanding of Paradife by Origen diuulged} was againe by Francifiws Georgius receiued (faith Sixtus Seenis)whofefriuolous imaginations Sixtus himfelfe doth fully and lcarnedly anfwer, in the 34. Annotationofhis fift Booke.fo/.3 38.the laft Edition. S. Ambrofealfo leaned wholly to the Allegoricall conftru@ion,and ‘et Paradife inthe amb.de Parade third Heauen, and inthe vertues ofthe ininde, & in xoftroprincipali, whichis, as I conceiueit, 2#'mente, orimoutfoules : to the particulars whereof he alludeth in this fort. By the place or garden GfParadife, was meant the foule or minde 3 by Adam, Mens. or Voaderftanding ; byEwe, the Senfe; by the Serpent, Deletation ; by the Tree of g00d gp indent opens 2 by the reft of eis Merete os mee br ivchia minde planted, or iromrthence ipringing. otwithitanding all which.y on the fir; da conshy seicbare inne ak sfusdllecliticats ofa celefialt and Diente:a radife\;, the.one, into which S. Paul was rapt ; the other, into which Adam was put by Gods!):4ag. Chry/amenfis vas of opinion, thata Paradife had beene, but that there was hot now any marke thereofontheearth : the fame being not only defaced, but withall the places now not fomuch asexifting. To which Luther feemeth to adhere, The Manichees alfo vnderftood, that by Paradifé was meant the whole Earth ; to which.opinion,Vadianus inclineth,as I conceiue his words intwo feuerall places. Firft, er ne the carth,G En. 10. Of which he eerie iudgement, Haeipfa cham qo vod dixit, Replete terram, dominamini omerfis animanti us, fubycite terram, clari[sime abcess tobans terram extantem, c- amnigenis(vt twmserat)fruilibus ew & bortum illum Adz, & posteritatis faturefuiffe 5 Thefe words (faith he) confitamn,fed in which Godfaid, Bring ian a and multiply, and fill the earth, and Jabdee itand ms Se ae eiacrelah em, that the Vwiuer/all carth fet or filled with allforts of fraits (as thenit was) was thegardemandfeate of Ad A My and of hisfuture poiteritic. Andafterward heeackn ow- vaiés ledgeth the place, out ofthe Acts,Cap. 17. Apoitolus ex vaofanguine omnegenus humanum adcofacium ddcetvt habitarentfuper vaswerfam faciem herra: tota igitur terra Paradi/us ille erat 5: The Apostle faith he) teacheth, that God hath madeof oneblowdallmankinde, to dwell or, * the face of the earth . and therefore all the earth (faith hee) was that Paradfe. g@ Which coniectures I will anfwer in order. Goropiws Becanws differeth not much from this opinion, bur yet hee acknowledgeth that _4dam was firft planted by God in one saosin place, an ae o- ; which place: Goropius findeth neerethe Riuer of celines, inthe confines of India. Tertullian, Bonawenture, and Daraxdus, make Paradi/e vnder the Equino@iall, and BMt. Peitel/us.quite contrary wnderthe North pole: the Clialdaeans alfo for = moft part, & alktheir Seétators, followed the opinion of Origen,or rather Origewdiniss who either make Paradfeafigure,or Sacrament only, orelfe would haueitfeated out ofwould this fenfibleivord, orraifed into fome high and remote Region of the Aire. 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