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A27207 Considerations on a book, entituled The theory of the earth, publisht some years since by the Dr. Burnet Beaumont, John, d. 1731. 1693 (1693) Wing B1620; ESTC R170484 132,774 195

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were Cattle in it but Dwarfish no Gold nor Silver in it and therefore despis'd by all Men whereas it 's now as pleasant a Counrry almost in all respects as France Spain or Italy Indeed in refetence to the Civil or Moral World it might be said that by the Golden Age is meant the Ancient simplicity which the Poets or others would represent in our Forefathers as leading a quiet and calm Life free from all Treachery Voluptuousness and other burthensome circumstances to humane Nature as we find some of the Ancients formerly had so great a hatred and detestation of Pleasures Superfluities and Voluptuousness that in the Temple of the Town of Thebes there was a famous square Pillar erected on which were engraven Curses and Execrations against King Menis who was the first that withdrew the Egyptians from a simple and sober Life without Mony and Riches But it cannot be thought that ever this Humour was general in the World though it might happen sometimes in one place and sometimes in another according to the vicissitude of humane Affairs Or we may say with Natalis Comes what is the Golden Age but a common liberty of all Men in a City well govern'd by Laws where wild Beasts live freely with domestick Animals Dogs with Hares Lambs with Wolves and the like For in a time of Peace good Men live safe under the protection of the Laws among Cut-throats and Thieves Some by the Golden Age understand the time when Men were govern'd by the Law of Nature written in their Hearts before the written Law was in being And others by the four Ages will have four sorts of Men to be signified But to pass from the Moral World to the Natural though as to the place which God appointed for Paradise it must be allow'd to have been adorn'd with all advantages and delights from the Beginning yet as to the rest of the Earth I know not what warrant we have from the Scriptures or other History Or what may be suggested from Reason for any advantagious furniture it had for supplying Men with Necessaries or Pleasures Indeed the Scriptures tell us of the Longaevity of the Antediluvian Patriarchs and we have suggested Conjectures already of what it may be imputed too but as to the great Fertility ascrib'd to the Primigenial Soil that of necessity must have added to the inconvenience of Habitation by an overgrowth without Persons to cultivate it and it seems likely to me that Adam as soon as he was turn'd out of Paradise was hardly put to his shifts Plutarch also sufficiently tells us what Conveniencies for the support of humane Life a recent World could afford so that a Golden Age in any such respect seems to me to have been represented rather for gratifying the Fancy than the Judgment And all I can bring it to is this that as the Ancients by the Golden Age in the moral World would represent an Ideal state of pure Nature and of Innocency so by all their Flourishes on the then Course of external Nature they would personate an Idaeal state of it correspondent to the other Having thus far shewn how little the Author's Hypothesis is backt by the Sentiments of the Ancients concerning Paradise I shall now briefly set forth what as far as my Reading has gone seems to me most probable in this matter The Learned Mr. Gregory on that passage of Zach. C. 6.12 Behold the man whose name is East whom he makes out to be Christ lays down this as a Ground That the special Presence of God as he superintends this World ever was and is in that part of the Heav'n or Heav'ns which answers to the Aequinoctial East of the holy Land To make this good he says the Ancients always attributed to the Gods the Eastern parts as Porphyry says and those parts are called by Varro and Festus the Seats of the Gods c. He proves it also from Reason according to Aristotle thus The first Mover viz. God must of necessity be present either to the Center or Circumference of his Orb and since Motions are most rapid in the nearest distance to the Impression and since that part of the Sphere is most rapidly mov'd which is most remote from the Poles therefore the movers Place is about the middle Line and this he thinks is the reason why the Aequinoxes are believ'd to be of so sacred an Import and signification in Astrology for by them as Ptolomy says it 's judg'd concerning things Divine and the Service belonging to the House of God Now the Philosophers meaning is not as if the Mover presented himself alike unto the whole Circumference but assisting especially to that part from whence the motion does begin viz. the East whence Averrhoes rightly says some Religious worship God that way Since therefore the Aequinoctial East passes through the whole Circle of necessity 't is to be meant of some certain Position nor is it possible to mean it but of the horizontal Segment of the then habitable World the uttermost bounds whereof from Sun to Sun they absolutely term'd East and West In the Philosophers time the Circle of this Horizon past through the Pillars of Hercules in the West Calpe and Abyla and the Altars of Alexander in the East And at the Pillars of Hercules the Arabians fixt their Great Meridian Now this Meridian passes through the tenth degree of Longitude from that of Ptolomy and the River Hyphasis on the furthest banks of which Alexanders Altars were rais'd as being the place where his Journeys ended is plac'd by Ptolomy in 131.35 the difference of Longitude is about 120 degrees the second part of which is 60. and because the Meridian of Jerusalem is 70 degrees from that of Ptolomy that is 60 from the Arabian the Holy City was as it was anciently term'd Vmbilicus Terrae being precisely plac'd betwixt the East and West of the habitable World Therefore the Aequinoctial East of Jerusalem is the Aequinoctial East of the whole and answering to the first movers Receipt which therefore was said to be in Oriente aequinoctiali Now the Notion of Paradise in the Christian acceptation was that part of the Heaven where the Throne of God and the Lamb is it being as Zoroaster terms it in the Chaldean Oracles the all enlightned recess of Souls And Irenaeus says as he heard from Disciples of the Apostles the Receipt of just and perfect Men is a certain Paradise in the Eastern part of the third Heaven and many others of the Fathers agree with him herein And Pa● 68.32.33 David says according to the Arabick Translation Sing unto God ye Kingdoms of the Earth O sing praises to the Lord Selah to him that rides upon the heaven of heavens in the Eastern part Gen. 2.8 It 's said And the Lord planted a Garden Eastward or toward the East In the Apostolical Constitutions it 's said And turning toward the East let them pray unto God who sits upon