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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33747	The situation of paradise found out being an history of a late pilgrimage unto the Holy Land, with a necessary apparatus prefixt, giving light into the whole design ...	Coleraine, Henry Hare, Baron, 1636-1708.	1683 (1683)	Wing C5064; ESTC R18407	113,799	258

spoken of its wonderful Fertility and Pleasantness mention'd an ancient Tradition credited both by the Learned of the Jews and the Fathers and Doctors of the Christian Church that Adam lived in Judea about Jerusalem was buried in Calvary concludes that where the first Adam sinned there it behoved the second Adam to expiate that sin and that it was fit where sin entered the World there it should be driven out This was the place which was chiefly honoured with his presence trodden with his sacred feet here he lived and died acted his Miracles crushed the Serpent's head opened Paradise where the first had shut it gave admission into a Coelestial and Intellectual Paradise where the first was expelled a Sensual and an Earthly one here stood his Cross here it was planted by evil men where stood the Tree of Life that was a Type of this How fitly were the Waters of this River of Eden sanctified with his holy Body that the vertue thereof might with those Streams diffund it self all over the Earth It was a very ancient Opinion that Paradise was in Palaestine St. Athanasius in his forty seventh Question Ad Antiochum mentions two Opinions hereof one * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it was in Jerusalem perhaps it should be in Judea the other that it was in Heaven Which proves that it was believed of old and though the Father think it unreasonable to believe so because he says Adam was expell●d it and yet was buried there this does not refute but confirm me rather that it was near thereabouts and according to all probability Eastward in Judea Though I might alledge a Tradition as old as the former of his Corpse being carried by Noah into the Ark and afterward by him interred whence it cannot be a Contradiction to affirm that he was expelld Paradise and buried there when it was no longer so Nor is it very unlikely it should be thus But if this were so then must it have reached as far as Jerusalem which whether it did or did not makes not against what I have said If we had but some such Description or Map of Palestine as is mentioned in the 18th of Joshua I fancy it might be possible thereby to unperplex and unfold all the Difficulties and Bussles about this grand Question This Opinion as it has all the advantages of the rest so it has none of the disadvantages it being made Consonant both to the Philosophy of that worthy Person I named a little before and to the accurate Criticisms and Geography of the ablest Studiers in the Art There are besides those whom the industrious Reviver of this Opinion reckons up to prove it to be neither novel nor singular many Modern Authors who though they do not place Paradise in Canaan do yet place Canaan in Paradise taking into it Babylonia Syria Damascus Palestine and all that part of Minor Asia one of them whom I cannot call to mind expresly I think names Jerusalem and almost all the Arguments which are brought to prove it to have lain in Mesopotamia or by Babylon or any of those places will serve as well to prove it to have lain in this place I do suppose that Eden received its name from Paradise being there and that it might be much larger than it is now supposed to be till that part of it receiving new names lost the old name which might be the reason that there came to be two Edens they being onely two small parts of the old Eden yet retaining its name But now I am rambling about this Delicious and Spicy Eden I cannot yet find the way out As to the Easterly situation of this Garden S. Athanasius in the place afore-mentioned has a Fancy thereupon extraordinary Poetical and which I take to be more expressive of its Riches and its Pleasures than those Descriptions the most Fanciful Poets can give of their Elysium viz. That from hence about the Oriental parts of India there are every where such fragrant scents and that the Spices receive their Odours as if blown from that happy place Which is good Poetry enough though too light for him and Milton has it Now gentle Gales Fanning their odoriferous Wings dispense Native Perfumes and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils Thus have I shewed you according to what I promised the goodly and beautiful Ruines of the most beautiful place that ever was led you into this Eastern Eden this illustrious and holy Vale and here I could pluck you many a Flower but that I am in haste and must be gone Onely I adde three things more that I had almost forgot First this was the Promised Land and it is natural to conceive that Faith and Obedience should give just Abraham a Promise to the place whence Disbelief and Disobedience had thrust out his Progenitor Secondly All the Allegories of a future State Canaan Jerusalem Sion City of God Temple holy Mountain Mountain of God Ghe-Hinnom Tophet the Lake are taken from the Holy Land and thence too very likely Paradise Thirdly That which thousands of years after remained the Garden of the World may I think by no unreasonable supposal be thought before the Deluge to have been so too I have thus given as short an account as I well could of the Site of the Terrestrial Paradise with submission to the Learned Now I am of this Opinion hereafter I may either alter or confirm it IV. It is thought that until Esdras his time by Paradise the Jews understood always this place and then began first to signifie by it that of future Blessedness For it being very hard for them to conceive an Intellectual Heaven who were wedded so fast to an Earthly Canaan they were forced to depaint Coelestial Joys by what they counted most Coelestial upon Earth not able to think on the higher and ecstatick Delights of unbodied Spirits and to give them the name of that which was likest to and typically expressive of them All Nations never so barbarous expected beyond the Grave a place free from Storms and Tempests sited above the noise and hurricanes chances and perturbations of this Sublunary World the Refrigerium of their Fathers and Righteous Spirits which they described by delightsome Groves and cool Shades and pleasant Meadows and flowry Walks Thus because they could no otherwise they strove to decipher them by whatsoever they rated highest and estimated dearest by Fields and Gardens and Fountains Feasts and Musick and Merriments But hence too for nothing there is but may be corrupted sprang the brutish and fond Conceits of another State the Turks hellish Paradise and the fancied Loosenesses and Revels that a rude Indian hopes for Yet in making this blessed Paradise of our first Parents the Type and Figure of our Heaven there can be no danger of any such sinful or gross unchristian-like or disparaging thought thereof For how is it possible for any one to fool himself into an expectation of sensual Joys who considers that it