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Show cn Lhe put Bookeof thefirStpart Cuar.3.$.14 54 fraclinessthatNilushad beeneaRiuer of Paiadife they mightiuftly haue thought, that C2303, C.2,u-18, Gf the fiiforie ofthe Worlds ee 5 a he Hackderid ed them: for they: haddiued thereall dayesof their liues,and found no fuch which the:Chw/ises {hould or mightin future time conquer, peoplé,:and dhhabite feeing in after-ages they became Lords,of many Nations, and, they might ¢:péxchance') dife oFHelperdesileesel(aici>esien) siteteras: nicthing found #n'his time,burwilde Oliues im ftead ofgolden A plesBut Nilusiis twice called Sichor,once in E/ay,& orice the fonne ofChws,confified,at the frit but of fouré Cities, (toiwit:) Babel Brech: wae Paradifeaallsibt naynseniory,0r fpeech thereof, except weefhall belceue the Para Piia.l.s.c.t. Cearg.Sip. inthe Prophet feremiey and 'yet'in thofe places it is not faid to be a River of Athiopia, but of Egypu-Forina word,the Iftaelites had neuer any communion or affaires with the Athiopiansnorany intelligence,or viade,beyorid Egypt,to the South ; but the E- rietlies which they had on the South,and Eaft parts, were thefe Nations of the Chufires,PhiliftinespTfnraclites, Amalekites and Madianites': who being often gouerhed 7» byawany littleKings;or® Regals,were diftinguifhed in names}! accorditig ‘to the Fatheis and heads ofthofe Nations; butin one general] name were all Arabiaws.On'the North fide of Canaan,they were affticted with the Coelefyriatis,with the Magogians, Tubalines,and others theif adherenits,andthirdly within them/feluies,the Nations,whichre- mained ofthe ancient Canaanites, held*the ftrongeft Cities vpon the'Sea-coaft (2s) Tyre,Sidon,Acon;Gaza,and mary others: yea; Terufalent it felfe was with-heldtrom Lfrael (from thedayes of4¢efesjeuen vntothe time of Dawid)by the Tebufites. Tharwhichnowstemaineth oftmott difficultie, istharit ‘doth not-appeare, that any partiofGehow watereththat part-ofArabia the ftony,which the Ghofites inhabitedin thetimesofthe Kings ofIftaellsand in this De/artit was that Matt: Berealdus loft him-10 felfein fecking ou Paradife: for he was-driuen(to my -vnderftanding)to create twoRi uers, and call' theny Gehon, and Pifon;totheend that the one might: water Chis, andthe: other Hauilahsfor'I find none fach én rerum patdra,as hohath decribed : by which Risiersyhe alfo includeth within Paradife,cuen Atabia the Defart. Atidas he well prosied'that Pifon was not Ganges;nor Gehon,Nilts;fo whereto find theme!fe-where itfeemethhe knewnot-Certainely this River ofGehon,which he makethto fall intothe Meditenan at Gaza,and whofe Springs he findeth farre Eat in Arabia;is but imaginary :forthe Current by Gazais but a'{mall ftreame,rifing betweene jtand the Red Sea;whofe head from Gazait felfe is little more than twentie Englith miles,as fhalkappeare hercafter.But queftionleffc, hence it comes that many were mif-,, takén. They aliconfidered ofthe habitations:of the Chufites,as they were planted when? thé ftateofIfrael food and when it flourifhed,being thentheir néere Neighbours,and neuer looked backeto the firft feates and plantation'of Chu. For afterthe Floud. cha and his Children neuer reftedjtill they found the Valley ofShinar,in which and neere which-himfel fe,withhis fonnes;firtt inhabited. Hanilab tooke the Riuer-fide of‘Tigris chiefly'on the Eaft;whichuatterhis owne name he called Hawilah, (now Safiana ?) Ras mah, and Sheba farther downe the Riuerjin the entrance of Arabia foslix, NIMROD feated himfclfe in che beftiofthe Valley, where he built Babel, whereofthat Region had afterwards thenaine ofBaby lonia.chud himfelfand his brother Mizraim firft kept vpon Gehon which falleth into the Lakes of ‘Chaldiea, ‘andin proceffe of time, ‘and as 40 their people increafed,they drew themfelnes more Weltefly towards the Redor'Ara- bian Sea: from whence Adicraim paft ouerinto Egypt, in which Tra@ the chafites remained formanyyeeres after.Now becaufethere could beno fuch River found in Avabia the ftonie, whichthey mightentitle Gebow;: they tranflated Chus:eethiopia, and Gehon,NilusAndif wee doe examine this miftaking by example; wee thall the bettenpercemuicitasitwas. ‘Bor let vs fuppofe, that'Brareer'whofoeuer elfe that firt peopled this. Iland,hadarriued vpon the River of Thames, dndealled the Iandaf tenbiis Rane Brétennis, itmight bee faidethat Thames or Temis was a Riuer that watered.4ritenmia sand when afterwards in proceffe of time, the faiie Byte had alfo dif coucre dand conquered Scotland, whichhe alfo intituled by thefanié nameof Brite$9 mie, atter ages might concludethat Scotland,was no partthereof, becaufe the Riuer o! Fesiisisnoptounditherein. Orlet vs fuppofe that Europa, the Daughter ofthe King Heredltcrie OF kGTyre in: Phewrcia; nameto Europe. according t 0 ‘Herodotus, atid that the : gaueethe thename firth difcouerers thereof arriued inthe*mouth of the Rit Cr itt Thrace, which chen : watgned.as: muchiof Europe,as, hefirt difcouered, ‘ thallw ee ath Hike ‘fort refolue Huagiee, Spairicj and Italie, &c. are no parts of Europe, "becadfe ‘that Rix Ravfound inchem, orany-of datetc them ¢ in like manne "was it faid by azofes in his depan daription of Gaberchat it-watered the whole Land ofche s; buthor>t thethe whole Las¢ 7 > VW A haue beeme Matters in time,(as the Saracens,whichi¢ame ofthem, were) ofa great art ofthe world.For, though the Babylonian Empiré,which tooke beginningiin Selleont ced,and Chalne,yet we fad.that his Succeffours within aifew ydares after; commanded all the whole World in effect: & the fame of Babel confumedthé memoria of Chufed For ofthis Fewer of Coufafioe did all that, Land-take the'nameidfBabylonia: atidthe exeatnefie ofphat Kmpixe;founded by Wimnedia yanger fonne,cobfeiirell theameand 10 nation ofhis father Caf>.inthofe parts, vntill they ctept facthet- off} aiidiin pldtes not yerentituled,and farther fromthe Babylonian Empire, where thé Chnfites retained theirmames, which alforthey faftned:co the Soileand Territoti¢é by- themfelues afer wards inhabited and held, And we mayinot thinke,that Chus or anyof hiss: could in hatte creepe throtigh'thofedefart Regions, whichthe lengthiofir30. yeatesiafter the Floud had(esiit wete)fostified with Thickets; :and:permitred:euery Buh and Bryar,' Reede-and Trée,to ioynethemlelies(asinwerd) into' one maine body and Forrent| For if wedooke withiudgemenc andreafon into the: Worlds plancation,-weihall find! chat euctysFamily feated themfelues, as nearetogether as paffible they could, and though necelfise enforced them,aftérthey. grewfull ofipeople,to fpread thenifelues 2 andcreepeout:ofShinarof Babylonia; yet'didtheyitowith this aduice, as that they night arallitimes, efort-and fuccourcone anocher by: Riuet ithe fields being then (without alldonbr)impaffable.So:.Niwxed,whoout of witsand. firength vfurped ‘dos ininion overthe reft;fatedowneiinthe very confluence ofallithofe Riuerswhich wate: red Paradife): for thitheriewas to which thegrearefttroupes:of Noahs children repay~ ved andfronithe fameplace whence Mankind: had ‘his beginning, fromthence' had they againe their incteafe. The firt Father of Met Adam, hadithercin ‘his former habitation. The fecond Fatherof Mankind Nosh;bezan from thence his difperfion. Now, as Nimrod: theiyoutigeft, yet ftrongclt, made his «choice of Babel (as afore faid)which both Tigrisiand Euphrates:cleanted and. enrichéd:, ‘fo idid' Hesilab place 3% himfelfe ypon Pife-Tigit:, Raamahandhis fonne Shebarfarther downeivpon thefare River,on the Sea-coaftiof Arabia : Chas hhimfelfe »vpon. Gébow; the faizeft-branch of Enpbrates. Aind when they beganto {pread themfelues fartheroff, yet they alwayes faftenedthemfelues tothe Riuiers fides: for Niaiue,' Charran, Refiph, Cannch, Vr in Chaldea, andtheother firft-peopled Cities,were all founded vpon thefe navigable Ri. rtheir branches, by which the one might giuefuccour andaffiftanceto the other; idyoften remembred. §. XV. A conclufion by way of repetition offomething poken ofbefore. Vt nowto conclude this difpute, it appeareth to me bytheteftimonies ofthe Scriptures, that. Paradife. was a place, created. by. God, anda. past.of this our Earthandhabitable World, feated in the lower partof the Region) of Eden, afterward called Aram fluuiorum, or Mefopotamia, which taketh into it alfo a portion Of Shinarand Armenia: this Region ftandingin the moft excellent temper Fall over, (towin) gydegrees from thee Zguinoctialand's5 from the. North-pole: in which cli- nate the moft excellent Wines, Fruits; Oyle} Graine ofall forts areto this day found idance. And thereis nothing that better proueththe excellency of this {aid foile nd tem per.than theabundant growing ‘of the Palme-trees, without the care andIaour ofan. For rE arthy Nature, andthe Sunne ‘can' moft vaynt, Plant bethe greateft Wonder of all their workes* atfoeuer his life begeéth/at Natures-hand. And ett sre found both ‘in the Eat and Welt Indies, ith a'perperall Spring'and Summer,yet,lay dow fu fislhand dar lafigerous rerous' Thunder aiteales |