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Sect. XI. Of fate; and that the stars have great influence and

that their operations may diversly be prevented or furthered. 27

Sect. XII. Of Prescience.

Sect. XIII. Of Providence.

Sect. XIV. Of Predestination.

Sect. XV. Of fortune and of the reason of some things that

seem to be by fortune, and against reason and providence. 37

Of man's estate in his first creation, and of God's rest.

Sect. I. Of the image of God, according to which man was first

Sect. II. Of the intellectual mind of man, in which there is much

of the image of God; and that this image is much deformed

Sect. III. Of our base and frail bodies: and that the care thereof

should yield to the immortal soul.
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Sect. IV. Of the spirit of life which God breathed into man in

Sect. V. That man is, as it were, a little world: with a digres-

sion touching our mortality.
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Sect. VI. Of the free power which man had in his first creation

to dispose of himself.

Sect. VII. Of God's ceasing to create any more: and of the cause

thereof, because the universal created was exceeding good. 63

Of the place of paradise.

Sect. I. That the seat of paradise is greatly mistaken; and that

it is no marvel that men should err.

Sect. II. A recital of strange opinions touching paradise.

Sect. III. That there was a true local paradise eastward in the

country of Eden.

Sect. IV. Why it should be needful to intreat diligently of the

place of paradise.

Sect. V. That the flood hath not utterly defaced the marks of

paradise, nor caused hills in the earth.
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Sect. VI. That paradise was not the whole earth, as some have

thought: making the ocean to be the fountain of those four

Sect. VII. Of their opinion which make paradise as high as the

moon and of others which make it higher than the middle

region of the air.

Sect. VIII. Of their opinion that seat paradise under the equi-

noctial and of the pleasant habitation under those climates. 88

Sect. IX. Of the change of the names of places: and that be-

sides that Eden in Coelesyria, there is a country in Babylon,

once of this name, as is proved out of Isaiah xxxvii. and Ezek.

xxvii.

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Sect. X. Of divers other testimonies of the land of Eden; and

that this is the Eden of paradise.

Sect. XI. Of the difficulty in the text, which seemeth to make

the four rivers to rise from one stream.

Sect. XII. Of the strange fertility and happiness of the Babylo-

nian soil, as it is certain that Eden was such.

Sect. XIII. Of the river Pison, and the land of Havilah.

Sect. XIV. Of the river Gehon and the land of Cush and of

the ill translating of Ethiopia for Cush, 2 Chron. xxi. 16. 117

Sect. XV. A conclusion by way of repetition of some things

spoken of before.

Of the two chief trees in the garden of paradise.

Sect. I. That the tree of life was a material tree; and in what

sense it is to be taken, that man by his eating the forbidden

fruit is made subject to death.

Sect. II. Of Becanus's opinion, that the tree of knowledge was

Sect. III. Of Becanus's not unwitty allegorizing of the story of

his ficus Indica.
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Sect. IV. Of the name of the tree of knowledge of good and

evil; with some other notes touching the story of Adam's

Of divers memorable things between the fall of Adam and the

Sect. I. Of the cause and the revenge of Cain's sin; and of his

going out from God.

Sect. II. Of Cain's dwelling in the land of Nod; and of his city

Sect. III. Of Moses's omitting sundry things concerning Cain's

Sect. IV. Of the diversities in the ages of the patriarchs when

they begat their children.

Sect. V. Of the long lives of the patriarchs; and some of late

Sect. VI. Of the patriarchs delivering their knowledge by tradi-

and that Enoch writ before the flood.

Sect. VII. Of the men of renown before the flood.

Sect. VIII. That the giants, by Moses so called, were indeed

men of huge bodies; as also divers in latter times.

Of idolatrous corruptions, quickly rising, and hardly at length va-

nishing in the world: and of the relics of truth touching these

ancient times, obscurely appearing in fables and old legends.

Sect. I. That in old corruptions we may find some signs of more

ancient truth.
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Sect. II. That the corruptions themselves were very ancient; as

in the family of Noah, and in the old Egyptians.
ibid.

Sect. III. That in process of time these lesser errors drew on

greater; as appeareth in the gross superstitions of the Egyp-

Sect. IV. That from the relics of ancient records among the

Egyptians and others, the first idols and fables were invented :

and that the first Jupiter was Cain, Vulcan, Tubalcain, &c. 165

Sect. V. Of the three chiefest Jupiters; and the strange story of

Sect. VI. Of Cham, and other wicked ones, whereof some got,

some affected the name of gods.
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Sect. VII. That the wiser of the ancient heathen had far better

opinions of God.

Sect. VIII. That heathenism and Judaism, after many wounds,

were at length about the same time under Julian miraculously

confounded.
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Sect. IX. Of the last refuges of the Devil to maintain his king-

Of Noah's flood.

Sect. I. Of God's forewarning; and some human testimonies;

and some doubting touching the truth of Noah's flood.
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Sect. II. Of the flood in the time of Ogyges; and that this was

not Noah's flood.

Sect. III. Of Deucalion's flood; and that this was not Noah's

flood; nor the Umbri in Italy a remnant of any universal

Sect. IV. Of some other records testifying the universal flood;

and of two ancient deluges in Egypt; and of some elsewhere.

Sect. V. That the flood of Noah was supernatural, though some

say it might have been foreseen by the stars.

Sect. VI. That there was no need of any new creation of matter

to make the universal flood; and what are catarractæ cæli,

Gen. vii. II.
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Sect VII. Of some remainder of the memory of Noah among

Sect. VIII. Of sundry particulars touching the ark; as the place

where it was made, the matter, fashion, and name.

Sect. IX. That the ark was of sufficient capacity.

Sect. X. That the ark rested upon part of the hill Taurus, or Cau-

casus, between the East Indies and Scythia.

§. I. A preterition of some questions less material; with a note

of the use of this question, to find out the metropolis of na-

§. 2. A proposal of the common opinion, that the ark rested upon

some of the hills of Armenia.

§. 3. The first argument against the common opinion. They that

came to build Babel would have come sooner, had they come

from so near a place as Armenia.

§. 4. The second argument, that the eastern people were most

ancient in populosity, and in all human glory.

§. 5. The third argument, from the wonderful resistance which

Semiramis found in the east Indies.

§. 6. The fourth argument, from divers considerations in the per-

§. 7. Of the senseless opinion of Annius the commentator upon

Berosus, who finds divers places where the ark rested; as the

Caspian and Gordiæan hills, which are three hundred miles

asunder; and also some place of Scythia.

§. 8. The fifth argument: the vine must grow naturally near the

place where the ark rested.
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§. 9. Answer to an objection out of the words of the text: The

Lord scattered them from thence upon the face of the whole

§. 10. An answer to the objection from the name of Ararat, taken

for Armenia; and the height of the hills there.
ibid.

§. 11. Of Caucasus, and divers far higher hills than the Arme-

§. 12. Of divers incongruities, if in this story we should take

Ararat for Armenia.
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§. 13. Of the contrary situation of Armenia to the place noted

in the text; and that it is no marvel that the same ledge of

hills running from Armenia to India should keep the same

name all along; and even in India be called Ararat.

§. 14. Of the best vine naturally growing on the south side of

the mountains Caucasi, and towards the East Indies; and of

other excellencies of the soil.

§. 15. The conclusion, with a brief repeating of divers chief

Of the first planting of nations after the flood; and of the sons

of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japhet, by whom the earth was re-

Sect. I. Whether Shem and Ham were elder than Japhet.

Sect. II. Of divers things that in all reason are to be presumed,

touching the first planting of the world, as, that all histories

must yield to Moses; that the world was not planted all at

once, nor without great direction; and that the known great

lords of the first ages were of the issue of Ham.

Sect. III. Of the isles of the Gentiles in Japhet's portion of

Berosus's too speedy seating Gomer the son of Japhet in Italy;

and another of Japhet's sons, Tubal, in Spain: and of the an-

tiquity of longinque navigation.
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Sect. IV. Of Gog and Magog, Tubal and Mesech, seated first

about Asia the Less, out of Ezekiel xxxviii. 39.

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