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A35114	A discourse of the terrestrial paradise aiming at a more probable discovery of the true situation of that happy place of our first parents habitation / by Marmaduke Carver ...	Carver, Marmaduke.	1666 (1666)	Wing C718; ESTC R22054	77,097	198

their Verdict whether it was Shivaz or Estacher or that there were no such Colonies of the Romans here in England as Lindum Cambodunum and many more because our Antiquaries are at variance in describing the places where they stood some placing them in one place some in another As for thy part Christian Reader for such I here suppose thee to be believing the infallible Veracity of the Holy Scriptures it will be no point of wisedome in thee to smite thy Friends to gratifie thy Adversaries Our Contentions are no more but a farther advance in clearing and vindicating the Holy Text in which thou and the whole Christian yea and Jewish Church are equally ingaged as well as we nor had this Discourse of mine ever with my consent seen the light had I not lately been provoked thereunto upon this very Question by the unsufferable Insolence and Insultation of some Antiscripturists a Generation of men lately sprung up amongst us and growing very numerous and exceeding bold owing their extraction to the most virulent poison of the leven of the Pharisees and Sadducees the perpetual Pests of true Religion now complying together in a mystical mixture and much improved by the effectual working of the spirit of Antichrist in a multitude of confused Sects both Fanaticks and Pro-fanaticks freely dominearing in these late years and however disagreeing among themselves yet agreeing all together in this to subvert the Foundation of Faith the Power of Godliness such as are our Familists Antinomians Libertines Hobbians Ranters Quakers and Seekers beside a great number of many others who though not so directly and immediately have by their pernicious and seditious Doctrines contributed not a little to promote this Mystery of Iniquity and to make way for the birth of this Monster that now begins to appear upon the stage a Monster more prodigious then Africk ever bred to wit a Christian Atheist acting all the parts of an avowed Infidel under an Hypocritical and therefore more odious outside of a baptized Believer professing Religion for no other end but to jear it and reading the Bible for no other end but to blaspheme it whom to discover and oppose I doubt not but every good Christian whose heart is touched with any zeal for the Honour of God and his Holy Truth will take himself equally concerned to engage with me to the utmost of his power As for those whose custom it is as Sir Thomas More hath observed long agoe to make themselves merry upon their Ale-bench with the Writings of others and think themselves extremely witty if they can break a scurrilous jest the Evaporation of Drink and a profane spirit either upon the Argument or the Author as we are willing to take notice of them among the former company so for their Censure we referr them to the Judgment of him who will take an account of every idle word that men shall speak in the mean time wishing them more sobriety And now good Reader I shall keep thee no longer from the perusal of this Discourse lately mine but now made thine onely desiring that we may all double our Praiers to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that he would inspire continually the Universal Church with the spirit of Truth Unity and Concord and grant that all they that do confess his Holy Name may agree in the truth of his Holy Word and live in Unity and godly Love And especially those whom he hath appointed to watch over the Souls of his people that they may attend faithfully to the Ministry which they have received of the Lord to fulfill it by contending earnestly for the Faith that was once delivered to the Saints and opposing vigorously with united hearts and hands those overflowings of Atheism and Ungodliness that are breaking in upon us like a mighty Torrent and by asserting the Truth of God and his Holy Word in the evidence and demonstration of the Spirit and power confirming such as stand and supporting those that are ready to fall by removing stumbling-blocks out of the way of the weak stopping the mouth of the Adversary and plucking up the Tares which the Enemy hath sown endeavouring as much as in us lieth to present every man blameless at the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ whose Fan is in his hand and he will throughly purge his floor and gather his Wheat into his garner but the Chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire AMEN Errata Pag. Lin. 14. 25. Hededis r. Hedenis 16. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A DISCOURSE OF The Terrestrial Paradise CHAP. I. The Opinion of Junius concerning the place of Paradise proposed THE Opinion of Junius concerning the place of Paradise which is almost generally followed by all Interpreters since his time not Protestants only both Lutherans and Calvinists but even the most ingenuous and learned Papists is that it was situated in Chaldaea in the Region which Ptolemy calleth Auranitis which he supposeth by the change of a letter to have been corrupted from Audanitis or Edenitis The River watering it he takes to be the main stream of Euphrates which toward the end of his course divideth it self into four branches The first towards the West which divideth betwixt Chaldaea and Arabia the desert which Mose's calleth the land of Cush or as we with others Aethiopia is that which Ptolemy calleth Baar-sares Strabo Maar-sares Ammianus more corruptly Marsias Abydenus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because it emptieth it self into certain Fens abounding with Frogs which the Chaldaeans call Akrukan and this he supposeth to be that which Moses calleth Gihon the signification of their names so well agreeing which in both is as much as Alveus foss atúmve deductum atque distractum The second branch is that which runneth through Babylon and Otris and is by Ammianus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 called Euphrates and therefore without straining supposed to be Moses's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The third is that which Pliny saith the Assyrians commonly called Armalchar Ammianus more truely Nahar-malca Abydenus by a Metathesis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is the very same put into Greek which Ptolemy calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This he conceiveth to be Pishon which breaking from the main stream at a Town taking name therefrom called by Ammianus Macepracta or as he would have it read Maja-prakta by Pliny Massice and running into the River Tigris at Apamea not onely mingleth his water but his name with it which from thenceforth is called Pasitigris or Pisotigris and entring the Persian Gulph at Teredon watereth by the way the whole Region of Havila where there is Gold Bdellium and the Onyx-stone that is as he expoundeth it the Country of Susiana where all those precious things are to be found The fourth and last branch called by Moses Hiddekel he supposeth to be that Rivolet mentioned but without name by Ammianus which being drawn out of Nahar-malca emptieth it self into Tigris at Seleucia

Imprimatur Doctissimus hic De Paradiso Terrestri Tractatus Jo. Hall Rev. in Christo Patri Humphredo D. Episc Lond. à Sac. Domest Apr. 3. 1666. A DISCOURSE OF THE Terrestrial Paradise AIMING At a more probable DISCOVERY OF The true SITUATION of that happy place of our First Parents Habitation By MARMADUKE CARVER Rector of Harthill in the County of York Nescio quâ natale solum dulcedine cunctos Ducit immemores non sinit esse sui Ovid. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orac. Magic LONDON Printed by James Flesher and are to be sold by Samuel Thomson at the Bishop's head in St. Paul's Church-yard 1666. TO The most Reverend Father in God GILBERT Lord Arch-bishop of CANTERBURY his Grace Primate of all England and Metropolitan and one of His MAJESTIES most Honourable Privy Council MAY it please Your Grace to vouchsafe the Patrociny of Your great and worthy Name to this mean and unpolished Discourse framed many years agoe upon a private occasion and for private satisfaction onely but passing into the hands of divers eminently famous for their Piety Learning and Station in this Church was by them adjudged not unuseful to communicate to the Publick as relating though more remotely to a Concern of the whole Catholick Church I adde the Jewish Synagogue also in vindicating the truth of Moses's Description of the Terrestrial Paradise from the Blasphemies of Heathenish Infidels Celsus Porphyry Julian the Apostate c. and the more Heathenish Christians of these later times the Antiscripturists who springing as the Spartae from the teeth of the Serpent so these from a prodigious mixture of Pharisaism and Sadducism epidemically raging in these last years under various disguises have arrived at length to that height of superlative Insolence as among other their Blasphemies to propound the History of Paradise to scorn and derision as a mere Utopia or Fiction of a place that never was to the manifest and designed undermining of the Authority and Veracity of the Holy Text the conservation of which next under his Sacred Majesty the great Defender of the Faith being by the Divine Providence intrusted to Your Grace whom he hath extraordinarily furnished with all excellent Gifts for the Government of so eminent a portion of his Catholick Church as this is of which he hath made Your Grace Overseer I was encouraged and soon after emboldned by the experience of Your generally-known and unparallel'd Clemency Candor and Condescension not to have been expected by one so inconsiderable and a stranger to advance to this presumption to crave Your Grace's Patronage for what may herein be observed conducing to the Vindication thereof Not altogether doubting considering the Cause wherein I am ingaged but that he who out of the mouths of Babes and Sucklings perfecteth strength to still the enemy and avenger may so level this pebble taken out of the bag of a poor Shepherd as if not to pierce the brow yet to stop the mouth of that Goliah that blasphemeth the Hoast of the living God For the many mistakes errours and imperfections which every-where will betray the weakness of the Author as I humbly crave Your Grace's and the Churche's pardon and pity as being not onely easie for me to fall into but considering the great disadvantages I labour under morally impossible for me to avoid so for the blame of them I am content after much reluctance to the publishing of them to charge my self with it being not unwilling to sacrifice my own credit to save though but in this one particular the Credit of the Holy Scriptures Our Lord Jesus Christ the Great Shepherd of the Sheep and Arch-bishop of our Souls long preserve Your Grace to the great good of his Church and having served Your Generation by the will of God vouchsafe You that Crown of Glory that fadeth not away reserved at his appearing for all that faithfully serve him Which is the daily Praier of Your Grace's humbly and affectionately devoted Servant M. C. To the Judicious and Ingenuous Reader especially the professed Divine HOW many Pens have been imploied in this Enquiry concerning the Place of the Terrestial Paradise and how much rubbish hath been digged up and dust raised to the great hindrance of discovering that which was so eagerly sought for by a multitude of contradictory Opinions and some of them hardly reconcileable to Sense or Reason is sufficiently known to all and is too manifest by the Consequents For while some have evacuated the Letter to plant a Cabalistical or Allegorical Paradise of their won others sought for Paradise under the Orb of the Moon or far above the tops of the highest Mountains without the vierge of this habitable world and others taking it for the whole compass of the Earth and others for this part others for that some under the Equinoctial line and some under the Arctick Pole or Antarctick Circle some in the East-Indies some in the West some in Syria some in Judaea and some of late in France and indeed where not where a wanton fancy or an ignorant impudence is pleased to place it and with no less absurdities vexing the four Rivers with incredible down-falls and uprisings in so occult passages and strange distances that to undertake in good earnest to confute them were to be mad for company It is come to pass that the faith of very many hath been stumbled and in some turned to so professed a despair of finding that place that they count it not onely an impossibility but an impiety to attempt a discovery of it Impie locum quaeris quem Deus occultum velit saith Pererius Though it cannot be denied that Moses did on purpose enlarge himself in so full and exact a Topography the like not to be found in the Scriptures or scarce any Secular Author to acquaint the men of his Age whereto his Description is fitted and all succeeding Generations with the true Situation of that Place But which is worst of all beside the mischief hereby occasioned to Believers it hath opened the mouths of Atheists and Infidels to impeach the Holy Scriptures of falshood who both in former and latter daies have hereby taken advantage to propound the History of Moses to be considered at no higher a rate then a mere Romance The first that I meet withall after the Dotages of the School-men upon this Question were found so far unable to occur as rather to foment this Scandal was Augustinus Steuchus Bishop of Eugubium who by the advantage of the Vatican Library whereof he was Keeper did first as himself saies in his learned Cosmopoeia upon Genesis undertake to assert the Description of Paradise to a Consonance of Historicall and Geographicall verity And herein he was followed by divers Learned men and in Anno 1581. the Divines of Lovain set out a Topographicall Description and Map of Paradise accordingly as he had hinted about the Confluence of Tigris and Euphrates in Babylonia But the Learned Franciscus Junius pursuing the