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Show Thefof Bake pibe fipar CuaraS.0 featedas,by Charnan or Heran in Mefopotamnia : alfo by Canwch and Refeph, according tothe opinion ofWatablss, whoin thefe words tranflateth this place: E lantaucrat aye temlEHOVAH Dews bortums in Eden, ab Oriente, The Lord God planted 4 Garden in Eden, Eaftmardsthat is (faith hee in his Annotations) In/érat nafct arbores in Eden, Regione Orientali, infinibus Arabie G Mcfopotamie, He commanded Trees to grow in Eden,an Es- flerneRegion in the borders ofArabia and Mefopotamia. Nd fora moreparticular pointing out ofthis Eden, it feemes by thetwo Epi- : files ofthe Neftorian Chriftians, that inhabit Mefopotamia ; which Epiftles in the yeare 1552.they fent to the Pope about the confirmingof their Patriarch,& Andreas Mafies bath publifhed them,tranflated out ofSyriac into Latine. By thefeE- piftles (I fay) it feemes. wee may haue fomefartherlight forthe proofe of that, which we hauefaid about the Region of Edenin thofe parts. For inthem boththereis mentionofthe Ifland ofEden in the Riuer Tigris,orat leatt , Tigris in both thefe Epiftles is called the Riuer of Eden. This Ifland, as 44efiws,in his Preface to thefe Epiftles faith, 3s commonly called Gozoria (as it were,the Ifland, by an eminency.) It hath (faith hee) ten miles in circuit, and was fometimes walled round about, which name ofthe Ifland , Eden may (doubtleffe) remaineto this day ; thoughin the reft of the Region fo called, this name be {wallowed vp, with the fameof thofe flourithing Kingdomes ofMefopotamiayAflyria,Babylonia,and Chaldza. This Ifland ofEden hath vp the Riuer,and not farrebeyond it, the.City of Hafan-Cepha,otherwife Forts Petra :belowit, it hath Mofal orMofel, from which(as in that which followethit thall appeare outofAza/ins)it isnot aboue twelue miles diftant.. Neitheris itto trouble ys » that Mofal or Mofel, by Adarins Niger is remembred amongthe Cities higher vp Tigris, inthefe words. Juxta autem Tigrim , Ciwitates funt.Dorbeta prope Taurum monica, que nunc Mofel diciturs magna fane, Orc,<thatis) By Tigris are thefe Cities > Dorbeta xeere unto mount Taurus (which ts now called Mofel) which is 4great one » @¢.This opinion of Gime, difplacity Mofel,and making it tobe Dorbeta(I fay) needs not here to trouble 5.40 ys feeingforthis" matter, the teltimony of Mafius,informed by the Chriftians that dwelt there (the Seat ofwhofe Patriachit 1s) oughtto be ofcredit,auowing thatthis Mofal (or Mozal) is in the Confines ofMefopotamia & Aflyria, feated vpon Tigris, & in the neighbour-hood ofNineue; andthat itis the famous Seleucia Parthorum. The Neftorian Chriftians in their former Epiftle, call ic Attur in thefe words : Ex omnibus Ciuitatibas CG pagis que Sant siroum Cinitatem Mofal(hoc th) Attur in vicinia Ninenes3Ofall the Cities and Townes which are about the Citie of Moxal (that is) Attur inthe neighbour-hood ofNixeue. Asal- fo Niger acknowledgeth Ctefiphon,a City thereabout to be called Affur, (whichis the fame.as Attur, after the Dialeét ofthofe Nations, which change ShintoT.) Neither isys it much that he fhould miftake Ctefiphon,(whichi s not far off Seleucia)for Seleucia,to be Affur.By thisthen we may.come fomewhat necre the end ofour purpofe. For the Neof Eden, which lieth inthe breft ofTigris,is afterthe floudcalled Shivar,and then ofthe Tower ofBabel ‘ Babylonias and theNorth patt ofEden is that Tra@t of Mefopotamia, Afpria, and Armenia, which embraceth both the bankes of Tigr# betweene Mount Tauru s, and Seleucia. And ofthis Region ofEdexthatancient «4thic as maketh mention > (not that Gallinicus , otherwifeby Plutarchand Atheneus called latter erhicus., Difciple of fri, wholiuedin Egypt inthe Reigne of Philadelphus, but anotherofa farre highe r and remote time) the fame being nade Latine out of the Greeke by Saint Hierome.An d though by corruption ofthe anci- §. X. Of diners other teflimonies of the Land ofEden ; and that this the Eden ofParadife. Yt fupra. Cuar3.$.10. ofth e Hiftorie of the World. ent Copie it be written in Aethicus , Adoxis for Edenis; yer Adonis being a RiuerofPhewitia, cannot be vnderftood to be the Region named by -4thicus. For Aethicus makes Io it a Countrey, and nota Riuer, and toynethit with Ade/oporamia and Aethiopia calling the land ofChas Aethiopia, after the Vulgar , and Septuagint: And laftly ; the River which watereth the Regions, (faith ethicus ) falleth into the Gulfe ofPerfia : which Riuerhe called Armodias , for Tigris; Tigrés being buta nameimpofe dfor the fwiftneffe thereof. And out of Armenia both Tigrésand Euphra tes haue their originall : for out of Edex cameaRiuer, or Riuers, to waterthe Garde n; both which Riuers (to wit) Tigris and Euphrates , come out of Carmenia , and both ofthem traue rfe Mefoporamia, Regions firft of all knowne by the name ofEden forthe it beautie and fertilitie. And it is very probable, that Eden containedalfo fome part of Armenia; and the excellent fertilitie thereofin diuers places is not vnworthyth e name of otherof(faith Strabo) the leaues ate alway green, &therefore Eden. For in fome part therein a perpetuall Spring, Alfo SrrepHanvsde urbibus, mentioneth the Citie of Adana vpon Euphrates: and the name ofEde was in vfe in Amostime , though he fpeake not of Eden in the Eaft, but of Fdenin Celefyria, Butto the end I may not burdenthe Readers patience with too long 2 Difcourfe,it mayfaffice to know > that Exphrates andTig ris (once ioyned together, andafterwardfeparate) ate two ofthofe foure heads ; into which thefe Riuers which are faid to water the Garden ofParadife, werediuided : whofe courfes being knowne, Eden , ( out of which theyare {aid té come) ‘canno t bevnknowne. Now that Hiddekel and Perath were Ticris and Eupbrates,itis agreed byall : forthe Seuentie andall others conuert Perath by Enphrates : e Hiddekel Tigrim omues expongnt : all men underfand cLbyTigris (faith Vasablus.) And becaufethatwhich I haue {aid ofthe lle ofEall not befubie&to the cenfure offe lfe-inuention, I hauehe ere-vnderfet downe fthe two generall Epiftles ofthe Neflor iassyasM ASIVS (ad verbum) them into Latine. The occafion ofthofe Letters and Supplication s to vere,that the Nefloriaz Chriftians, which inhabiz Mefopo tamis, Affjria, Perfia, 4, 8c haue to this day (at leaft in Queen Maries time they had) fifteene Churches in one Citie called Seleucia Pay thoram, or Mofelvpon the River of Tigris; hauing no:fuf- ficient authoritie to choofe thieinfelires a Patriarch ] f¢ 4 rift 1552. les Casafe | beone -" taae Sana change,that all other Kingdomes ‘beene, e woe oe ep and-cormuption of other Languages , of,tb receiued aeW and differing names. Forthe South Pattof Eden, which ftretcheth ouer Euphrates, ¥? aftet aid) a Petition to obtaine allowance vnto fuch an Ele@ion 1 hree hundred yeare before that vpon the like defeat, rmed; andin this negotiation the y, made knowne vhriftian Church in thofe pafts : for vpon the » of a couctous defire toenrich himfelfe had forborneto * Bifhops , vvhen theplacesfell void ) theyallaffembled themult ofthe Church-gouernment. And becaufeall the Patriarchs shad beene of one Houfé and F mily to the preiudice of the retremained one Bifhop of the fame Stockeand Kindred, vvho vvhich his Predeceffors had held, the reft of thie Profeffors but twelue miles from Mofal, and that ancient City, which Prolomy and Tacitus call Ninus , and the Scriptures. Nineue ; Pdi loftratus, and Simeon Sethi, Mofula, and John Lean,Mofal, others Moffe (thoug hit bee notthe fame with Mofal) is fer buta little higher vpon the fame Riuer of Tigris neere Mofal.: fothatwearelike to find this Ile of Eden hereabout, For the fame Andreas Me fiusswhich placeth itaboue Mofal, makes itto be below Hafan-cepha which is vpof the fame River of Tigris. 2 The onely difficulty is this, rhat fome perhaps may thinke 5 that the words of theg Neftoriansin both their Epiftles, fpeake not ofanyIiein Tigris,calledthe Ie of Edet, bur of an Ilein Tigris, a R iuer.of Eden. But this fenfe oftheirwords in my opinion f{eemeth the more vaprobable. And yetif this were the meaning here, we haue a teftimo hic from the Learned ofthofe parts,that not onely Euphra tes, buralfo Tigris was Riuerof Eden,andthat tl 1 Name of Eden in thofe partsis not yet quite worne out,thoug! - <i (which cannot bee done without teor three Metropolitane Bifhop at leaft') fent tothe Bithop of Rome, in the yeare h occafion, and for the choice ofa Gouernour more Ilthe Churches aflembled them{elues. The vvords:of the sare thele about the middleof the faid Epiftle : Verdmnos tanimas neg, proclamanimus § [am , fed [ubito conuenimus ex omnibus locis OriC% ompivus Ciuitatibus O Pagis quefut circum Ciuitatem Mofel (hoc cH ) bylonia, ex C barra, ex Arbella, ex Infula qua ofie medio Eaten, ex Tauris Perfia, ex Nipbi, oc. whichis: Bat we did neither accept of L but uid lenly we affembled our felues aut of allparts of the J We , Carrha, s which are about Adofel / gr Attiir , neighbouring Ni- Arbells, andows ofthe Mak which Lyeth 14 $0 middle of Ti- ori |