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Show "Tbesfirt Booke of thefirst part Cuaria.§ul bother excellencies this Garden of Patadife had, before God (for mans ingra- STconienanitacic Earthywe canfiot judge; ‘but Tmay nt thinke, that by how:muth (Adam exceeded albliuing mem in perfection;by being the immediate yrorkemarithipof Godby fo much didthat chofeniand particilar Garden exceede all partsof the \Viniuerfall W orld,in which God had planted (that is J mae to prow er Trees ofdaifejof tet proper, and becomming thi@Paradile; and § G: : eava Lord. ; : ; -Sonateaall thisis,That-whereas'the eyes ofmen inthis' Scripture haue beene dimmefighted (fome ofchem finding: Paradife beyond ‘our knowne World: fome abouethemiddle Region of theAAyre: fome, eleuated necre the Moone: others,as 10 farie-Southias the Linejorasfarre North asthe Pole,&c. yl hope that the reader will be fufficiently fatisfied,that thefe were but like Caftles in the Airejandin mens fancies, yainely-imagined. For, it was Eaftward in Eden (faith A40/es) Eaftward,in refpet of Iudzasthat God plantedtthis Garden; which Eden wee find in the Prophets whereit was,and whereofthe maine( in fome part ) remaineth to this day. A riuerwent out of Eden to water this Garden,and from thence dinidedit felfe into foure' branches; and we find that both 7#gr#and Euphrates {wimming through Eden;doe ioynein one, and afterward taking wayes apart,doe water Chas and Hawilah, according to Mofes.thetrue feats of Chus and his Sonnes, then being in the'Valley of Shinar, intwhich Wimred built Babel. That Pifon was Ganges the Scripture, Reafon, and experience teach the?¢ contrary: for that whichwas neuer ioyned,cannot be diuideds Ganges; which inhabi- teth India, cannot be abranchof the riuersof Eden; That Gehon was .Nilws, the fame diftance maketh the fame impoffibilitiesand this riuer is a greater ftrangerto Tigré: and Enphrates, than Ganges is:'for although there are beeweene: Tigris and Ganges aboue fourethoufand miles,yet they both rifein the famequarter of the World; but ilu is begotten inthe Mouhtaines of. the Moonejalmoft as‘ farte off'as the Cape ofgood Aope,and falleth into the Mediterran Sea:and Euphrates diftilléth out ofthe Mountaines of Armenia,and fallethanto the Galfe of Perfia':the one rifethinthe South, and trauaideth North xthie othersifethiinthe Notthjand runneth Souththreefcore and three degrees the ene fronnthis othierIn thisleafetollowings I haue addeda Chorographicall de- 30 icription ofthis terteftriall Paradife,thiat the Reader may thereby the bertet conceiue the precedirig Difcourfeyand this is theteward I looke for, that my labour may but receinean allowance {ufpended,vatil fuch times this defcription ofmine be reproued byjabetter, Cuapr.l III Of the two chiefe Trees in the Garden of Paradife. I That the tree ofLife wat ameaterialltree sand in wha tfenfeit isto betaken, that wanby bis tating theforbiddenfrit, ts madefubieE to death; \ ee Or,eating the forbidden fruit of the trée-of Knowledge.-was ‘Adame driven ay N our of Paradife,iw'exilium vite temporalisinto the bamifbment of temporal lift jaith Beda. That thefe Trees of Lifeand Knowleddge were materjall. Trees ( though Figures of the Law.and-ofthe Gofpell itis not doubted by the mott religious and learned Writers): although the wits of men; whichar e fo: volatile, as nothing can fixc them,andfo flipperie,as nothing canfaften them, hauein this alf0 99 deliuered to the World,an imaginarie doctrine. TheTree ofLife( fay:the Hebrewes\hath-a plurallconftruction, and.is to be-vndet- ftood,Ligwum' vitarum, The of lines, becaufe the fruitt hereof; had a.propertie, to The Tree Tre of preferue bot h the growing, fenfitine,andrationall life of man 3and. not-onely( but fot ; Adams trar greffion hadprolonged his owne dayes,but alfo giuen.a durefull continuance to all poiteritie;and that,fo long.as a body compounded of Elements could laft_»fsnd although it is hard ro thinke, that flefh and bloudcould be immortall, but that at mutt once perifh and rot,bythe vachanged Law of God impofed on his creates Marn |