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THE

WORKS

OF

SIR WALTER RALEGH, KT.

NOW FIRST COLLECTED :

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

THE LIVES OF THE AUTHOR,

BY OLDYS AND BIRCH.

NEW YORK

IN EIGHT:VOLUMES::

VOL. II.

THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

BOOK I.

OXFORD,

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

MDCCCXXIX.

LEN

MOY WEN

TIBKY

TE CONTENTS.

Of the creation and preservation of the world.

Sect. I. That the invisible God is seen in his creatures.

Sect. II. That the wisest of the heathen, whose authority is not

to be despised, have acknowledged the world to have been

created by God.

Sect. III. Of the meaning of In principio, Genes. i. 1.

Sect. IV. Of the meaning of the words heaven and earth, Genes.

Sect. V. That the substance of the waters, as mixed in the body

of the earth, is by Moses understood in the word earth; and

that the earth, by the attributes of unformed and void, is de-

scribed as the chaos of the ancient heathen.
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Sect. VI. How it is to be understood, that the Spirit of God

moved upon the waters; and that this is not to be searched

Sect. VII. Of the light created, as the material substance of the

sun, and of the nature of it, and difficulty of knowledge of it;

and of the excellency and use of it: and of motion, and heat

annexed unto it.

Sect. VIII. Of the firmament, and of the waters above the firma-

ment and whether there be any crystalline heaven, or any

Sect. IX. A conclusion, repeating the sum of the works in the

creation, which are reduced to three heads: the creation of

matter, the forming of it, the finishing of it.

Sect. X. That nature is no principium per se; nor form, the giver

of being and of our ignorance how second causes should have

any proportion with their effects.

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

his creation.
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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. Uf God's teasing to create any more: and of the cause

thereof, because the recreated was exceeding good. 63

Cf 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. 65

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 Colesyria, 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.

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.

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