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Show ete 20 Cuar.3.§4 The firt Booke of thefirst pare Seren ae Red.in Gen. Pet Comeft.bt. EftPr de Mofes Barc, Pay' de1p Pare ----- Ribanes, were bothficke df this Vanitie, with OPigen, ‘and Philo : fo wasSut venerable Beda, ‘andPet, Comestor, and Mofes BarcepbastheSytian, trahflated by! Mafias. But > Hopkins faies.of Philo Indays; that hee wondted; "9xo alogenre afflatus's By what cu Angell: he was blowne up into thes erroay': {6 canTrot but great ‘marusile at the learned men, who fo groflely's-blindly Wandred ; feeingMo/és,and after rim the Prophets,do forplainly deferibe this'place,by theRegion i Whith it was planted, by the kingdomes and prouinces borderirig it, bythé Riners which Watered it, Sind by the'points ‘of the Compaffe vpon-whichit lay, in'refpect of Theda ‘or Caridatt. ae Nouiomagus allo; vpon Beda? Dé watura rerum, Belécueththat all the earth was taken for Paradife, andnot any one placeéy For théwholeeatth aithhe) hathithe fame beau-to ty ad{cribed to Paradife. Headdeth, thatthe Ocean was that fountaine, from whence the foure Riuets,Pifon,Gehon, Tigris,and Buphrates,had their beginning:forhe could not thinke it poflible,that thefe Riuers of Ganges, NilussTigrissand Euphrates, (wherfopotamia and Armenia) couldrife out of one fountaine, were;it not out of the Fountaine of ‘the Ocean. : rs That there was atrue local Paradt{eEalimard, in the Coustrey of Eden: Othe firfttherefore, thatfucha placethere was vpon the earth; the wordes of a the vulgartranflation;called Hieromes tranflation,hath conue rted this placé thus, PlanFaycrat Dominus Deus Paradifim voluptatis a prilacipia s The Lord Godplanted a Paradife of Plesfarefrom the begibnings putting the word(plea/ure)for Edenaind(from the beginning) for Eaitward : itis manifett; thatin this place Edenis the proper nameof.a Region. Forwhat fenfe-haththis tranflation (faith our Hopkins, in his Treat ife of Paradzfe) that hee planted garden in pleafures orthat a Riner.went outofp leaf ure towaterthe garden? Butthe feuenty Interpreters calb it Paradi/um Edenis, theParadife of Bdew, ‘and {o doth the Chaldean Paraphrafttrucly take it forthe prope r nameof a place; and fora? 6 Nouneappellatine ¥ which Région, in refpeét ofthe fertilitieof the foyle,ofthemany beautifull Rivers, and goodly Woods, andthatrhéstree s (asinithe Indies)dole alwaies keepetheir leanes, was called Eden, which fignifieth in the delicacie, as the Spaniards call the Country; oppofiteto Hebrew, pleafantheffé, or the Ifle-of Gaba; Florida: and this is the miftaking, which mayend the difpute, asitouching the double ferfe of the word, thatas Florida'was a Countrey; fo calle d for the was Eden.a Region called pleafure,or delicacie,forits flourifhing beautyithercof, fo pleafurejor delicacyzand as Flo: ridafignifieth flourithing; fo Eden fignifieth pleaf ure: & yet bothare the praper names of Countries ; for Eden being the proper nameofa Region(called. pleafure in the He- 45 brew):and Pardddfe being the choivefeat e ofallthat Region, Paradife was-traely the Garden of Eden; andtruly the Gaiden ofpleafiire. N ows for Eaftward, to tranflateit, from the begin .~ Cf locus Dei manibusix Eden "4 Oritntem. mirabi liter confitus Paradife #5 4 place marusiloufly plantedby the bands of Godin Edi atowardthe Eaft, 4 And " ithefe Fathers, Guilhelmus Parifienfis,a great learn ed man, and SixtusSee 50 f later times, doe both . nderf tandthefe words of Eden, and ofthe Baft; conit tranilation 3 Parifigelis, asindiffer ent to bothsand Sixtus Senenfiss r: of which thefe are their owne word s: After thied will begin veeflrtall, which God planted: fromthet Giani ng, or Eafiward, Os obernefiri,-quims plantalfe Denusabinitis vel ad Oriente, Oreo Anadthen Sewcesis . Mo's nsemimtolarifs ttc proast; Paradifim'2 Deo conpitunein re i citar Htace: Heden antem ¢ Wj¢ proprinm nomen Apparel ex quar~ vbi login CHA o Chapter ofGenefisswberewe veade, that CHAM aivelt onthe Eat border ofHeden. Prrs"Rive enddvotirethto qualifié this ranilaion': for'this particle (faith he) ab initio, is ve V Sfervedito allithe time ofthe Creation; Andorto the very firft day'; alleaging this place twas iieahe but afterthe fixth dayBar fitelyaT dinke (referring myfelfeto betogé: indeemendythe Devil was fron the inant of His AH 2 hy wnflay er' in difpofition, ‘ghough he hic notwhicreonto practife til' is creation, ‘And for conclufi on, S. Hze- a6 pornetifeharpee his tranflation) aduifeth hinilelfe beter ithe end ofthe third Chapsterof Genefissconuerting the word (Eden by (ante not (4 principio) as, God did fet 2 "Gherubin'beforethe Garden of Eden > Collocanir: Dens VaPip 12ifyin) oluptates Chérs { tive fenfe ofthis and Peer himfelfeackhowledgeth; that thisis thé M hatitaffe 44 Orientalemplapaim Heden 3 For Mosts follo weth udior, onely tothe end, to'fihde Paradile vpont heRiuer of AcefZ "tines ; for there he hathvyheardof the Indian Fig*tteein greata blindance, which liee fuppofe to 20 bee the tree of Knowledge of good*and enill, and would therefore draw Paradife to the Fisstree which conceit of hisT will anfwer hereafter, E Now, becaufe Z adife Was feared by Afofes toward the Fatt thenée camethe.cuftome of praying towards the Batt: aid not at dvans": ahd therefore afl ourChurchés are buileF ft,as:to the point where the Siin tifeth in March , which is direétly our dife faith' Dabee/ ‘)athrming, that wee alwaies praytowards th@Ealteas looking towatds Paria fe, whence wee'wetecat out 3 and yet the ‘Temple Of Salomon had their Prietts and Sacrifi ces. which turned themfelues in their {eruiceanddiuine ceremonies. alwaies'towards the Wek, therebyto auoide the fuperftition ofthe Egyptians and Chal rans. Bur becaufe Kat and Web arebut ih re [pet of places : (for although Payadife were Eatt from hadea; yeri¢was Welt from' Perfia) and the feruing of ‘Godis every where ithe world; thematter isnot ereat which way we turne our faces, fo.our hearts ftand aohr, orherchnr 5' that! we who dwell Weft froth Purz ife, and pray turning our ; rthereby tobefeech God, that as by Adams fall dife'on earth ; fo by Chrifts death and paffié n wee may be made akers'of the Paradife'celeftiall,& the Kingd om ofheanén. To éon¢ lude,Tconceiue, yere. was no other iy fteric in adding the word (F.af 2to Eden by Mofes, thanto the Region of Eden , in which Parad ay Orthe Scr iptures alwaies ¢ Eaftward from Iudeaand ons, the Sonnes of ich inhabited Arabia, Mé d Ezyov am, N21 shaldwa.and Perfia : Amongst?' Ardbinasand tHe ; t thréa ; mention ¢ c. C t+} TCNnerne leftruction of Hie Lio Nis C1iS tO;bD -hamed,in reipect of C par of his rmy alem,th . ; * of this ; Whom ¢/wb its firlt faluces'anhis y; -riling YS tu ha fae Vita matutints. -e noted, that the red Nabuchodoxozor, and of V Impound 3no I that Babylonir felf ftood wards the North. giucth beft fatisfaction :. for A ges : ft part of, the Wor ld, tL prijcipio) prijciple t ncth, that 2 principio, and yardis all one,a priny of Mankind was not Al ; ard ntnele y¥Ords Foy our t fight, an 4 200dfor meat, Tey Ka Oricntaiis.ax capite Geer, erft6, ofChriftehat alchough thé'Deuill was fald tobea man-fla yér fromthe beginning, yet lohan 8.44, plantedGarden with pleafite (that i to fay) full of pleafu re: But Reeg titis confir Eaflwardin Eden, and there beepatthe man whom hee hadmade: Andhowfoeuer ning, it isalfo contrary. to the tran{lation of the Scuenty:; to the ancient Gree ke I thers, as Bafid, GhrofofamesFheddoret , Gregarie.and to the Rabines, as Ramban, Rabbi Salomon, R. Abraham,and Chichi; and of the Latines, Sewerts ts; Damafcenus,erc. who plainly takeEden:for-the propernam e of aRegion, andferthe word (Eafward for ebavit io: for Damafcensowne werdes are thele, Paradifus faith key ilbehfew wopcletrel), Phak Paredife was plaptea Of God iz: 2 Region of the Eaft : leaintrie: whith is called Heder 2 bat that Heéden'is aProperHamme, it appearet h by thefourth bathe Eaft-fideof the Girded of Hedee} Cherubin: Bueanvs a meth, that the t word (Be) fienifiech (with) aswell as Git and [6 thé Text beareth this fenfe ;* Mofesmakeitmanifelt, whereit is written} ded the Lord God plant ed agardes Gencap2r, d, r if the PipPovieofbea place, précifel taken, accorditig tothe Hebrew. Pofiit Poarte OFREALWord rie en, Cherub in : | of the one ranne throughIndia, the other through Esypt, andthe other through Me- §,. AM: eg Cw MARY. 2, 1 x pret } S ir erie poy World atl VV OTld at large, voi i hat Le mt bt 4reffeit 4nd ketbe |