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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.
IN EIGHT VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
BOOK I.
OXFORD,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
MDCCCXXIX.
THE CONTENTS.
THE PREFACE.
P. i-lxiv
СНАР. І.
Of the creation and preservation of the world.
Sect. I. That the invisible God is seen in his creatures.
I
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. I.
4
5
Sect. IV. Of the meaning of the words heaven and earth, Genes.
i. I.
6
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. 8
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
curiously.
ΙΟ
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.
14
Sect. VIII. Of the firmament, and of the waters above the firma-
ment and whether there be any crystalline heaven, or any
primum mobile.
21
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.
23
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.
24
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.
33
34
36
Sect. XV. Of fortune and of the reason of some things that
seem to be by fortune, and against reason and providence. 37
CHAP. II.
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
created. 42
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
by sin. 48
Sect. III. Of our base and frail bodies: and that the care thereof
should yield to the immortal soul. 54
Sect. IV. Of the spirit of life which God breathed into man in
his creation.
56
Sect. V. That man is, as it were, a little world: with a digres-
sion touching our mortality.
58
Sect. VI. Of the free power which man had in his first creation
to dispose of himself.
62
Sect. VII. Of God's ceasing to create any more: and of the cause
thereof, because the universal created was exceeding good. 63
CHAP. III.
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.
64
Sect. II. A recital of strange opinions touching paradise.
Sect. III. That there was a true local paradise eastward in the
country of Eden.
65
68
Sect. IV. Why it should be needful to intreat diligently of the
place of paradise.
75
Sect. V. That the flood hath not utterly defaced the marks of
paradise, nor caused hills in the earth. 78
Sect. VI. That paradise was not the whole earth, as some have
thought: making the ocean to be the fountain of those four
rivers.
82
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.
84
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.
90
Sect. X. Of divers other testimonies of the land of Eden; and
that this is the Eden of paradise.
100
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.
106
109
III
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.
CHAP. IV.
Of the two chief trees in the garden of paradise.
126
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.
129
Sect. II. Of Becanus's opinion, that the tree of knowledge was
ficus Indica.
131
Sect. III. Of Becanus's not unwitty allegorizing of the story of
his ficus Indica.
134
Sect. IV. Of the name of the tree of knowledge of good and
evil; with some other notes touching the story of Adam's
sin. 136
CHAP. V.
Of divers memorable things between the fall of Adam and the
flood of Noah.
Sect. I. Of the cause and the revenge of Cain's sin; and of his
going out from God.
138