The Creation And Fall of Man a Supplemental Discourse to the Preface of the Fi
The Creation And Fall of Man a Supplemental Discourse to the Preface of the Fi
Samuel Shuckford
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12. {•**) (i>>WuwtH^ Vihcf. Iuv Qiro'icL eif:iT£tt J'r:iioict. Eufeb. Ibid. Fj) /wA^ ^V i^iV^K dyYo{)iTifs T h'. Yoy. Id. Ibid. Moles F ALL of M A -N. Iiy Mofes to have wrote Facft, and Hiflory, but thought Plato to miftakc him, and to imagine him an Allegoriji^ and that in writing in that Stile, he was an Imitator of him ; and accord- ingly, we ought fo to conftrue what was before cited from Enfebius^ as to make it agree with what is thus plainly declared by him. But to return from whence I ha...ve digrefTed: The Writers, who are not for admitting in a literal Senfe, what Mofes relates of the Garden of Eden^ remark to us, that the Ignorance all Ages have been in of the true Place and Situ- ation of it, muft be deemed a coniiderable Argument, that no fuch real Place ever ex- ifted {z) : It is not likely, they fay, but that fome of Adam*s, early Pofterity muft have found in the World fome Traces of the Manfions of their firft Parents, if any fo re- markable a Place of their Abode had ever been ; but if it be in Fafl: true, that, choofe we where we will, we can hear of no Spot of Ground fo fituate and bounded as Mofes de- fcribes, why fliould we think his Garden any other than a mere Scene of Fancy, which no real Geography could ever mark out upon the (z) See Middhton\ EHay upon the allegorical and literal In^ terprctation.
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