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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

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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