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Show The firft Bookesof the first part Cuar3.§.6, ofthe Hiftory oftheWorld, Cuar.3:§.7. Laftly, icappeareth thatthe Flond did not, fo turne vpfidedowne the face of the Gen.811, Earth, as therebyit,was made paft knowledge,after the waters were decreafed, by this §. VII. that when no AH fent out the Doue-theSecond time,Jbe returne d with an Oline. leafe ix hey Of their opinion which make Paradife as high asthe Moone: and of others, which make i higher than the middle Region ofthe Ayre. mouth, svhich thee had pluckt, and: which (vntill.the ‘Trees were difcoue not :, for otherwife fhe-:might haue found them-Actin g onthe water; a red) thee found manifet proofe, that the Trees werenottorne vp by the rootes, nor {wartime vpon the Waters, for itis written; folium Oline;raptum or decerptum,a leafeplackt,(wh ichis)to take froma Tree, ot toteare off. By this it is apparant; (there being nothing written to the contrary) that the Floud.madeno fuch alteration, as was fuppofed, but.that,the place of Paradife might be feene tofucceeding Ages,efpecially vnto Mofes, by whom it pleafed God to 1 teach the truth ofthe Worlds Creation, and ynto the Prophet s whichfucceeded him: both whichI take for my warrant,and to guideme in this Difcouery. §.° VI. That Paradife was wot the whole Earth, as[ome hane thought : making the Ocean to bee the Sountaine of thofefoure Rivers. His conceit of Aug. Chy/amenfis being anfwe red, who onely giueth' his opinion for reafon, L will in a few word Gen.1.28. Affs 17.26, s examineth Vadianus , Gorepiws, Becanus, and all thofe at of the Manichees, ofNoniomags, meajit the whole Earth.' But in this I fhall not that vnderftood,that by Paradifewas trouble the Reader with many wordes,¥ becaufe bythofe'places of Scripture formerly remembred, this Vniuerfalitie wil] appeare altogether improper. The Places 7 . whic h Padia; nus alleageth, Bring forthfrat and multiply, fillthe Earth and[ubdue it, rule ener 1 -* 5 proue fuch a generalitie : for theWorld Gen.2.8, doe no way was made forman, ofwhich hee vvas and Gouernor,andall things therein Lord were ordained of God for his vfe. Now although all men yvere ofone and the fame fount inhabited in proceffe oftimeoverall theaine ofbloud originally ; and Adams pofteritie face ofthe earth yerit difprouethin nothi the particular Garden, affigned to ng Adam, to dreffe and cultiuie, in whic hheelived in fo blefled an eftate before his tranfereff ion. Forif there had beene no other choyce, but 3° ean had bin leftto the Vniue rfall ; atofes vvould not then hanef aid, Estward tn E eek the World hath nor Eat} nor Weft, but refpectiuely And to what end hadUb the ee AngellplROh of :Godb eM ecne fet tohe, Cei 4d keepe thee Eatt-f -fide. f de,andentr aft-fi ntra nce Dae ife icainto Parad ance ife » af. afafSaashred Mt Sy te ¥ hiueriall had beene Paradife ¢ foy then muft Adav haue deen¢ ha s 2 fo out 0 the W orld. For if All the earth wvere Paradife, receiue no better contru@ion than this, place can That Adam vvas driuen out ofththat e World into the World, andout of Paradifeinto Parad ife, excep t wvee fhould beleeue vith Metres dorus, that there wereinfinite Worlds. Whichto hab th 7 fo laree afi late the Pas JO Le ficla, as the Vninerfall, denys35 ,he thinkes al! one s to 2affirme' oneya Vpon some icemeth to bee led bythi there foouldgrow bat one Thistle, N ovioMAGYS s, that itvyas vapoffible for thofe three Riuers, ee ron Euphrates; whic difproue it, is foridiculo WS, {pecially P/ato:though Socrates in the end fuffered death, for acknowledging one onely 2 o Powerfull God ; andtherefore did the Deuil! hitnfelfe doe him that right, asby an O> racle, to pronounce himthe wifeft man. Jfine Martyr affitmeth) that Plato had read Iufin.Mare? ftiall Paradife,and notthis of Eden. Solinas, I grant, reporteth, that there isa place ex- ceeding delightfull and healthful, vpon the top of Mount Atho(called Acrothones) which being aboueall Clouds of Raine, orother inconuenience, the people(b yreafonoftheif fo manyyeeres) arecalled Atacrobici (that is) Long-lived. A further Argument is vfed, for proofe ofthe heighth ofthis place, becaufe therein was Enoch pre{erued from the Violence of the Floud: approued by Jfdore, and Peter Lombard; in wllian conceited , thatthe bleffed Soules werepreferued till the nt; which Jrenens and Iufline Martyr alfo beleened. But this opinion was Catholique Dinines reproued, and in the Florentine Councell damned 3 of which t Auguftine more modeftly gatiethis iudgement: Stent certum cf,ENo CHE Evtam we Vinere :ita Ubi mune funt: an in Paradifo an alibi,incertum ef; (that is) ds it bertaine thatENocu andEt tras doemowline ‘fo where they line, in Paradife or elfewhere, it is un- certaine. But Barcephas giucs athird caufe, though of all other the weakeft. E or (faith he) t was neceflary that Paradifeth yuld be fet at fucha diftance and heighth , becaufe the QD ire Aue ts (had theynot fallen fo precipitate) couldnot haue had fufficient forceto felues vnderthe great Oce in; and afterward haue forced their paflage sand hauerifen againe inthe farre diftant Regtons of India,Egypt,and ¢ h wvater three portions of theWorld fofardiftant) to: rite out‘ of one Fountaine, except the Ocean bee taken taken f fyI he / r for the Garden. 1 Warl r N Dictie geet =ane the World _ Anditistrue, that thofe foure Riuers, being fo v nderftoo d, there could bee no cottectu Sta regs more proba mee able. ESbut it i ly appea-are.t ee ] I plain Ff was falfly re,thhzat Pifon c ; Gantaken for 6¢s,2nd Gehon falfly for Ni us,al though Ganges be aRiner by Hanil lus run through Ethiopia, The Sewen ahi n India ,& Nity vvrite Chus for Ethiopia and ofth Pe e Mani chee s.anWic d theucs miftaeae te aa kings °oof Neyj ae fe cir gat eeS cs SC 0pin p e s, ate & Vadianusvith others ee, Macc manitelt. Yet was their coniedure farre more prob ble.thz Cyrile s, and and Abia Athana Gus *« That ies, E Ephrem ; $2 ife yvas That Parad Pare f vas leated d farfar k beyo Noh nddne the Ocean Adam vvaded through it, on ee Sea and ha that e and ar laft came toward the Country in ted,and wvas buried at Mount ryin Hierufalem. And certai Which tras "Fea: of the firft Age were of greatCalue nely, tho . hall thole ftar ure, andfo continued Pe nt Vet Adams fhi. n-bones muf¢ a ee. ma n nt oid, Y yeere s after the Flou¢ had foorded the Ocean 5 tbuthaue contained a thoufand fadom ¢, and much more,if hee this opinion Trueitis , that thefe Philofophers durft notforfeare ofthe Areopagites (in this andPiaz.Laertin G ( i manyother diuineapprehenfions) ' fet downe whattheybeleeuedin plaine termes, e€- Sco, things changed) hee might be counted a Chriftian. Andit feemeth tomee, that both "S Tertullian and Evfebius c nceiue, that Secrates, by that place aforefaid, meant the cele- eneTy Creature, Ge. with this of the Ads, nde, to dwellon all theface ofth e Earth, place, altogether remoued from the knowledge of men (locus @ cogwitione han minum remotifsimus) and Barcephas conceived , that Peradi/é was farre inthe Eaft, but mounted aboue the Ocean , and all the Earth , and neere the Orbe of the 10 Moone (which opinion , though the Schoolemen charge Beda withalt , yet Pereri= #s layes it off from Beda vpon Strabus, andhis Mafter Rabanus : and whereas Rupertus, in his GeographieofParadife, doth not muchdiffer from the reft , but findes it feated next or neereft heauen ; It may feeme, that all thefe borrowed this doétrine out 6f Plato, and Plato out ofSecrates : but neither of them(as I conceine) wellvnderftood ; who(vndoubtedly) tooke this place for Heauenit felfe, into which the Soules of the bleffed werecarriedafter death. the Scriptures ; and St Augustine gauc this iudgement of hiin,as his Opinion, that (few«#™,edGear: = and hath madeof one blond al Manki Hirdly , whereas Beda faith, and as the Schoolemen affirme , Paradifeto bee x » - fancies and dreames haue beenc anfwered byditers learned mett long ims, > and Pererius vponthis fubiect areuey writing : SV} y E -of whofe hick : . peatethefe few : forto vfe long difcourfeagainft thofe things, which are 5 ptureand Reafon, might rightly bee iudgeda vaniry in the Anfwerer; ? Ee r ro e riieed 9 Y¥va rut eh arer to that of the Inuenter. My glows refore alleadged, that fucha place cannot be commodious to liucin : for rethe Moone it had beene the Sunne , and otherheauenly too ne it muft haue beene tox vein that Region is hi hat} it ‘a Neighbour to the Element foviolently moued, and carried 2nconfift or t ae abiding, Fourth1¢ (according to. Ptolom#eand . aj it ncedes no argument 10 uth, which makes in a grofle acHereyponit muftfollow, that mopaffe of the wholeearth for a could hardly be hidden fromthe know f the Sunnic¢ lighr., all the fore-part s, VII. ' of |