OCR Text |
Show The.firft Bookeofthefirst part Cuar.z.§.5 Cuari2.§.5. ut illine per precipitium delabantur fluny tanto cum immpetn, quantum verbis exprimere won polsts; cog, impeta impalliprefsig..[ub Oceant vaao rapiuntars vaderurfus profiliant ebulliant, in hoc a nobis culto arbe:which haue this fenfe : Furthermore (faith he') wegive this for an.anfwer that Paradile tsfet in.a Regionfarre raifed aboue this part which we inhabite ; whereby it comes to palfe.that from thence thefe Riners fall downe with fach a headlong vi0- tn rhat'cyther thefe Risers were turned ourof their coiirfes, oF few Ritiérs Chéared by the Floud which'were not,oithat the Flotid (as aforéfaid yby a vidlént motion, When it beganto decreafe,was the caufeofhigitHills or deepe Vallies.\ Bor what defeent of waters could -there be in'a Spherical! andtound bodie!; wherein 'thereis nor high nor low ? feeing that all violent force of waters is eyther bythe ftrength of winde; by de- lence,as words cannot expre([e; and with that forcefo impulfed and preft, they are carried {cent froma highertoa lower,orby the ebbe orfloud of the Sea, But that there was a- under the decpe Ocean, and doc againe rife ard boylevp in this our habitableiverld:and to this he addeth the opinion of Ephram, whichisthis. Ephrans dicit Paradifum ambire ter vam,atg, vilra Occawumita pofitum effe,vt totum terrarum orbe: ab omni circnmedet regione, zon aliter atg, Lue orbis Lunam cingit, (whichis ) That Paradife dath compaffe or embrace the whole Earth, and isfofet beyond the Ocean Sea, as it enuironeth the whele Orbe of the 19 Earth ox cueryfide,as the Orbeofthe Adoone doth embrace the Moone. Tothe endtherefore that thefe ridiculous expofitions and opinions doe not bring queftion ynto Truthit nie winde¢wherebythe'Seas are moft enraged ) it appeareth not, ‘ratherthe contrarie is probable: foritis written, Therefore Goa wade a windetopaffevpon the Earth} andthe Gen: waters ceafed. Soas itappéateth not;that, vntill the waters fanke, there was any winde p2tall,but that Godafterward,outof his goodnefle;caufed the windeto blow;to drye vp the abundantflimeand mudde of the Earth,and'make the Land more firme,andto cleanfethe Ayre ofthicke Vapours,and vawhollonte mifts : and this we knowby ex- perience,thatall downe-rightraines doc euermore difleuer the violence of outragious felfe,or make the fame fubiett to doubtsordifputes, it is neceffarie to difcouerthe true place of Paradife, which God in his wifedome appointed in the very Nauell of this our World,and(as Adelanchton {aies )in parte terre meliore, in the befpart thereof, that from thence,as from a Centre,the Vninerfall mightbe filled with people andplanted. and windes,andbeat downe, and leuell the fivelling and mountainousbillowof the Sea: for anie ebbes and Aoudsthere could be none, when the waters were equall and of one heighthouerall the face ofthe Earth,and whenthere were no Indraughts, Bayes, or Gulfes to receiue a Floud, or any defcent, or violent falling of waters in the round forme of the Earth and Waters,as aforelaid : and therefore it feemeth moft agrecable by knowingthis place,we fhall the better iudge ofthe beginning ofNations, & ofthe worlds inhabitation:forneere vnto this did the Sons ofWozh alfo difperfe themfelues after the floud, intoall other remote regions & countries. And ifit bea generous defire yg if men,to know fromm whence their owne forefathers hauecome, and out ofwhat regions and Nations, it cannot be difpleafing to vnderftand the place ofour fir Ancefter, from whenceall the ftreames and branches ofMankind haue followed & bin deduced, If then it doe appeare by the former, that fuch a place there was as Paradife, and that the knowledge of this place cannot be voprofitable, it followeth in orderto examine {eueral.o pinionsbefore temembred,by the Truthit felfe,8cto fee how they agree with thefenfe ofthe Scripture,and with common reafon, and afterward to proue directly, andto delineate the Region in which God firft planted this delightful Garden. §.V. That eu Floud hath not utterly defaced the markes of Paradife, nor canfed Hils in the Earth, 3° Nd firkt, wheteas it is fuppofed by Auc.Chy/am enfis that the Floud hath altered, deformed, or rather annihilated this place, in fuch fort asno man can - "finde any matke or memorie thereof: Gofwhich opinion there were others alfo,afcribing to the Floud the caufeofthofe high Mountaines, which are found n al the Earthouer , with many other flran ge ‘effects): for mine oy he opinio Thi ? neither the oneno rthe other tobe true. For althoughI canno t deny bat hat' he "fs é of Paradifewas after the Floud withered, and gtowneold, in refped ofth fi ar a 0 tie : ( for both the ages ofmen, and the nature of :all things Time hath hs bed yee" if there had beeneno figne ofanyfuch place, orif the foilevand feate ha here ned,t hen would not Afofes, who. wrote of Parad about 850 sider Sz Fite a Flond haue defcribed it fo particularly, and the Prophife ets longa cet ihpe oa oN : gn, made to often menti on thereof, And theugh the verie Garden it felkewers Not _ to be found,but that the Floud, and otheraccidents oftime madeiton , eons son field and pafture w ith the Land of Eden.yetthe place is ftill the fame bid a ieee ati c maine the fame Rivers. By two ofwhich( acuer doubted of 20 wie Ty, acs parater, weare lure to finde in what a longitude Paradife layi&e learnine ees 3 hefe tuucrs, Which afterward doth diuide it felfe into foure branches sires 2 oe ni Fi $2 partitionis at thevery. borderof the Gardenit went a Muucr to water the Garden, and from: felfe:For itis written thee a AfEden ‘ thence -it was divitled 4 ad Bee eens foure heads : Now Ww hethe r the word in the Latine Tranflation Chad na = oy he re ferred to Eden it felfe,or to Paradife, yer the diuifion & Salicaeeeies os anit a be inthe. North orSouth fide ofthe very Garden Gif the riers veer o a e +f nent ther foretheferivers yetre maining,& Eden maniféftly know, wan der © notuch defacing byth efloud,as is luppofed, Furthermore; thatthe place could befo altered as funuc as there is nolikelihood, ages knew Oot, (0 is thereno probability eM & pBiieil ¢ Seek, Ww La , sait ts shat of the Hiftory ofthe Worlds to reafon,that the waters rather ftood in a quiet calme., than that they moued withta20 nyraging or ouer-bearing violence. And fora more dire& proofe that the Floud made no fuch ‘deftroying alteration, lofephus anoweth that one of thofe pillars erected by thethird from Adam,wasto be feenein his dayes ; which pillars werefet vpaboue ears before the Floud, counting Seth to be an hundredyears old at the erection ; and Jofeph himfelfeto hauelined fomefortie orfiftie yeares after Chrift : of although there be no caufe to beleeue all that hee wrote, yet that which hee a"his.owne timé, cannot( without great derogation ) bee calledin queftion. foreit may be polfible , that fome foundation or ruinethereof might rhen be feene. Nowthat fuchpillars wereraifed by Seth,all Antiquitie hath auowed. Itisalfo written in Bero/ws (to whonralthoughI giuelittle credite, yet I cannot condemnehim ll) that the Citie ofEnoch, built by Caé# about the mountaines of Libamus, was not aced by length of time : yeathe ruines thereof Asgsns( who.commented vpon that gment) faith,wereto be feene in his dayes, wholiuedin the reigne of FerJ/abelle of Caftile.Andif thefe his words be not true,then washe exceeding it : for, fpeaking ofthis citie of Enoch,he concludethinthis fort : Cains maxirna is moltefuwdamenta vifuatur,c> vocatur ab incolts regionis, CinitasCain , vt Aofirt grini referunt ; Thefoundation of which huge Adaffe ts mowto befeene, and y the people ofthat Region,the Citie of Cain, as both our flraxgers and mere chants report, Itisalfo auowed by Pomponius Mcla( to whom giue more credite in hefe things) that thecitie of loppa was built before the Floud, ouer which Cepha was fe name, with his brother P hisews,together with the grounds andprinciples ligion,was found grauen vponcertaine altars of ftone.Andit is notimpolsi- ines of this other citie,called Enoch by d#xins,might be {eene, though irft Age: but it could not be of the firft citieof the world, built by Catz, rthanthetimedenying it, Cet4.17% d to proue directly that the Floud was not the caufe of mountaines, but that there untainesfrom thecrearic yn, it is written,that the waters of the Floud onerflowed ubits the bigheft Mountaines. And Mafiws Damafcenus {peaking of the Floud, th in this manner: Eft [upra Minyadam excel/us mons in Armenia (qui Barts appella2 940 confucientes multos fermo eff dilnmij tempore liberatos. And upon Minyada there ich Adauntaine in Armenia (called Baris) unto which as it isfaid)that manyfledin the lace,andthat they faued themfelues thereon. Now although it is contrari¢e at any more were fauedthan cight perfons which Mafiw doth not imonie , that fuch Mountaines were before the ince,knownebythe fame names; & on which Arke refted : but votruely, as I thall prouc unt Siem (though by another name) was Imudifts report, that many Giants faued yther diuine or humane. ences Laftly, |