The H I s T o R Y Chap. i. 



on is recorded of taking the Rib from Jdam, 

 wherewith the Woman was made 5 yet tho' 

 from this, Chirurgery may plead high, yet the 

 very Current of the Scripture determines in 

 favour of Gardening. 



What was the Mathematical Diflribution, 

 or how Geographically fituated Paradife was, 

 is fomething uncertain, tho' fome affirm it to 

 be (e') near the Mountains of Armenia, where 

 the Ark refted after the Univerfal Deluge, 

 where Gardening probably took its fecond 

 Rife. Others pretend it to be elevated above 

 the common Level of the Earth, and to have 

 been a Pattern to the fo-much-celebrated Gar- 

 dens of Babylon. 



The Advances Gardening made, from A- 

 dams Expulfion to the General Deluge, is 

 dubious, there being little left of it, only 

 that he was a (f ) Tiller of the Ground : 

 And tho' fome of our Divines have pioully 

 believ'd that Adam was, upon his fincere Re- 

 pentance, re-admitted into Paradife 5 yet fince 

 the Scriptures mention no fuch thing, we 

 may more reafonably conclude that the unal« 

 rerable Decree of Heaven lay heavy upon him : 

 And 'tis more than probable the Reflexion on 

 his unhappy Lapfe might deterr him from 

 any Purfuitsof this kind, any more than the 

 Necelfaries of Life, which he was, by the 

 direful Command of his Maker, deflin'd by 

 the Sweat of his Brow to provide for^ nor 



(e) Sir T. Browne- Oar.Uns of Cyrus, {f) Gen. ^,.2:^, . 



does 



