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Volatiles from the history of Adam and Eve containing many unquestioned truths and allowable notions of several natures / by Sir John Pettus ...
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Pettus, John, Sir, 1613-1690.
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VOLATILES FROM THE HISTORY OF Adam and Eve Containing Many unquestioned Truths and allowable Notions of several Natures By Sir John Pettus Knight LONDON Printed for T. Bassett at the George in Fleet-street 1674. To the Right Honourable LEISTER DEVEREVX Lord Viscount Hereford My Lord HAving the Honour of being your Neighbour in Suffolk it London and in our Publick Imployments and your Lordship knowing the occasion of my Writing upon this subject affords me some reasons of Dedicating this to your Lordship to shew you how I spent my time when I had any little leisure from business which I seldom neglected persuant to Antoninus advice that if one should ask me at any time what I was thinking I might be able to give an account of some worthy matter and therefore I made Choice of this Story which hath furnish'd me with above an 100 several Subjects which always fed my Thoughts with such safe Varieties that they fenc'd out the Consideration of other troubles which might have perplex'd them My Method of Writing I borrow'd from Malvezzi his Davido persecutato my Extravagant way from Mountaine who in his Essayes undertakes in one Chapter to write of Thumbs and yet not one word of them in all that Discourse for have observ'd in the Countrey that when I forsook the path which would have guided me to the place I design'd and cross'd the Pastures somtimes I started Hares somtimes sprang Partridges or observ'd some curious Plants which pleasures I had never injoy'd if I had confin'd my self to the path yet I kept my Eye on it least I should stray too far and return'd home by it and inliven'd or inrich't my thoughts with the Contemplations of what happen'd by my digressions Possibly these Excursions might have been more excusable to me in my Youth than in my Age but it is a solace to me that I can be yet youthful in my notions and if your Lordship please to peruse these as a Recreation your Lordship will very much Honour My Lord Your Lordships most humble Servant Jo. Pettus The Stationer to the Courteous Reader THere are some Errata's occasion'd by the Indisposition of the Printer for want of Orthography Comma's Conjunctions Parenthesis expunging of needless Adverbs mistakes of Singulars for Plurals which may be amended by the Ingenuity of the Reader upon the intended sense of the Sentence but the most material are viz. PAG. 14. l. 5. read sixteen and l. 18. r. graines p. 18. l. 1. r. Life p. 30. l. 10. r. Undermines and l. 25. r. humid part and l. 28. r. prae-efficient p. 40. l. 21. r. adjectively p. 79. l. 25. r. feminine p. 96. l. 4. r. tunes p. 110. l. 1. r. of p. 125. l. 30. r. are none p. 163. l. 13. r. Jonathan THE HISTORY OF ADAM and EVE Introduction IN the beginning Whilst all we can apprehend was God in the beginning of his manifestation of himself by Parts In the beginning of those Parts from whence we account the beginning of Time In the beginning when that Time was an Emanation of Eternity In the beginning when God afforded us Visibility out of his Invisibility God Created Heaven and Earth And from that Mass of Creation divers other parts were as we may say in respect of their Comparative Excellency also created as it appears Verse the 3. And God said Let there be Light Secondly And God said Let there be a Firmament Thirdly And God said Let the Earth appear Fourthly And God said Let the Earth bring forth grass Fifthly And God said Let there be Lights Sixthly And God said Let the waters bring forth Fowl Seventhly And God said Let the Earth bring forth Cattle So that there was a Septenary or seven Fiats and no more seven being a perfect number And those being done God begins with Man in another Dialect for instead of Let there be God said Let us make Cap. 1. ver 26. Now whether these words Let us are to be understood as more Majestically spoken or an Invocation of the Trinity imployed in the word Elohim Et dixit Dominus angelis mini strantibuscoram eo qui creati sunt die secundo creationis mundi Targ. Hier. or a summoning of Angels or other spiritual Instruments Or Let us that is let the Creatures which I have Created on the five former days together with such a Soul as I shall infuse into Man Let us make Man that is let man be constituted of Light Air Water and Earth and of the Qualities and Virtues of those and other Creatures and of a Soul peculiar to himself yet derivative in some manner from us his Creator and my other Creatures I shall not here dispute but leave it to other voluminous Writers For not onely the Dialect as I said concerning Mans creation is different but it is clear that Moses gives only a Concise Narrative of the things created before Man not imparting to us any circumstances used in their Creation But as to Man he gives a full and ample discourse from the seventh Verse of the second Chapter to the end of the same Chapter being wholly spent in it and indeed is but a Parenthesis proper to be read between the 26 and 27 Verses of the first Chapter the words Let us make Man in the 26 verse being either the Consultative part of Mans Creation or as Gods declarative Resolution so to do and the words in the 27th verse So God created man shews the compleating that deliberation or resolution And therefore I shall begin with those words of the seventh verse Chapter second And the Lord God made as being the beginning of the active part of his Creation and so descant upon that whole second Chapter and that being finished return to the 27th verse of the first Chapter So God created man and then to the 28 and 29 verses with which I shall conclude the first part of these discourses The second part shall begin with the 30th of the first Chapter because it is an Induction to the offences of the Serpent and thence pass to the whole third Chapter to which shall be added so much of the 4th and 5th Chapters as shall make the History and variety of discourses concerning Adam and Eve intire and pleasurable to the Reader and I hope without the least offence to the sacred Method or dissatisfaction to any The Notions which I have us'd herein are chiefly from my Notes out of Dr. Waltons Laborious and Learned Polyglotta some parts of St. Augustine Pererius Sir Walter Rawleigh Dr. Donne Paulus Lovatius Crook and some others cited on the Margin and if I have hit upon any others veins which I have not cited it is the error of my Memory not of my Gratitude so that till I know them I may be excus'd and if the Style and Method be somewhat above or out of the usual road it may be ascribed to my Education which hath been not like a Pedant but a Gentleman The Text of the first