while ADAM kept eating his Fill, and took no Thought; neither was Ev E afraid to commit her former Crime again, the more to footh him with her belov'd Society; that now both being intoxicated, as it were with new Wine, they become quite full of Mirth, and fancy that they feel Divinity within them, producing that which would make them fcorn the Earth. But that falfe Fruit first fhew'd a quite different Operation, enflaming them with carnal Defire; he began to caft lafcivious Eyes upon Ev E, which Glances fhe as wantonly repaid; 'till they burnt in the finful Paffion of Luft; and ADAM thus began to exprefs it to EVE:

Now EvE, I fee that thou art of an exact and elegant Tafte, which is no finall Part of Knowledge; fince we apply and refer all different Savours to the Judgment of the Palate, which if nice, we fay is judicious; fo well haft thou made Provifion for this Day, that I yield the Praife to thee. We have lost a great Deal of Pleafure, while we abftain'd from this delightful Fruit, nor 'till now have known the true Relish of Tafte: If there be fuch a Pleasure in Things forbidden us, it might be wifh'd that for this one Tree we had been forbidden ten. But come! now we are fo well refresh'd, let us feek Paftime as cannot but be agreeable after fuch delicious Fare; for never fince the Day I faw thee firft, and wedded thee, adorn'd with all Perfection, did thy Beauty fo inflame my Senfe with Defire to enjoy thee: Thou feemeft fairer to me now than ever; all which is owing to the Virtue of this Tree.

Nations; the natural Pronenefs of all Men to Vice and Immorality; their Averfion to Piety and Virtue, and the Perfections and Happiness of Adam and Eve, before they committed this Sin, compared with difor

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derly Paffions, Fear, Guilt, Shame, Confufion, Mitery, Mor. tality, Lofs of God's Favour, Expulfion out of Paradife, &c. St. Aufin firft called it Original

Sin.

HE faid thus, and did not forbear Glances or wanton Motions of amorous Intent; which were now well understood by EvE, whofe Eye darted the contagious Fire of Luft. He feiz'd her Hand, and led her (fhe being forward to go) to a fhady Bank, cover'd thick over-head with thick Branches; their Bed was of various Flowers: There they took their Fill of Love and Play, the Seal of their mutual Guilt, and the Solace of their Sin; 'till Sleep opprefs'd them, they being wearied with Dalliance and amorous Sport.

As foon as the Force of that fallacious Fruit was exhal'd, that with exhilarating Vapour had play'd about their Spirits, and led their inmoft Powers into Error; and groffer Sleep, bred of unkindly Fumes, and incumber'd with confcious Dreams, had now left them; they rofe up, not refresh'd, but weary as if they had not flept; and each viewing the other, foon found how their Eyes were open'd, and their Minds how darken'd! Innocence was gone, that like a Veil had fhadow'd them from knowing Evil; juft Confi.. dence, native Righteoufnefs, and Honour, were gone from about them, and they were left naked to guilty Shame. ADAM Cover'd himfelf, but his Covering was ftill more Shame: So rofe SAMSON (b) from the Lap of DALILAH, (c) that Harlot he had taken from

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(b) Samfor,or Shimfon, Heb. i.e. Hear the fecond Time: because the Angel was intreated to come to his Parents, a fecond Time, to let them hear of his Conception, Manner of Life and mighty Deeds. He was the Twelfth and laft of the Judges of Ifrael: Succeeded Abdon, judged that People twenty Years, and died A. 1. 2887. before

Jefus Chrif, about Eleven hun

ared and itventeen Years.

(c) Dalilab; Heb. i. e. A Confumer. Jofephus calls her Dalale, and the Greeks Dalida, which doth not alter the Signification of the Word. A Woman that lived in the Valley of Soreck, which lies upon the Banks of the River Soreck, Heb. i e. A Myrtle Branch: becaufe m

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from among the PHILISTINES, and wak'd depriv'd of his Strength; fo ADAM and EVE wak'd, deftitute and bare of all their Virtue: They fat a long Time with their Countenances confus'd, as though they had been ftruck dumb; 'till ADAM, though no lefs abash'd than EvE, at length forc'd Utterance to these Words:

O EVE! it was in an ill Hour that thou gavest Ear to that falfe Serpent, whoever taught him to counterfeit MAN's Voice; the Truth being that we are fallen, but our promis'd Rifing falfe; fince we find, that indeed our Eyes are open'd, and find that we know both Good and Evil!------ Good lost, and Evil got! A very bad Fruit of Knowledge, if this be to know; this, which leaves us thus naked, void of Honour, Innocence, Faith, and Purity, our ufual Ornaments, now all defil'd and ftain'd! and evident in our Faces the Signs of foul Concupifcence; whence comes Store of Evil, even Shame, the utmost Evil; and be affur'd many leffer will attend. ----- How shall I henceforth behold the Face of GoD, or any of the Angels, fo often feen heretofore with Joy and Rapture? Those heavenly Shapes will now dazle me with the Blaze of their Brightness, which I am no longer able to bear. O! that I might live favage here in Solitude, hid in fome thick Shade, not to be penetrated by the Light of the Sun or Stars; where highest Trees fpread their broad Shades, and darken the Night! Cover me, ye Pines! Hide me, ye Cedars! with innumerable Boughs, where I may never fee GOD or Angel more! ----- But now let us, in this bad Condition we are in, contrive what may best serve for

ny Myrtles grew there. This Valley was about twelve Miles from Jerufalem, on the West, but belonged to the Philiftines. Samfon's Miftrefs and Betrayer, Judg. 16, 4. 5. S. Chryfoftom,

the

Caffian, St. Ephrem, Pererius, Sulpitius, Severus, &c. think the was his Wife. But Jofephus, St. Ambrose, St. Jerom, Serrarius, &c. believe otherways.

the prefent, to hide thofe Parts of ours each from the other, that are unfeemlieft and feem moft obnoxious to Shame: Let us find fome Tree, whofe broad fmooth Leaves join'd together, and girded upon our Loins, may cover all round thofe middle Parts; that this new Comer SHAME, may not continually reproach us as unclean.

ADAM Counfell'd thus, and they both went together into the thickeft Wood; there they foon chofe the Fig-Tree; not that which is esteem'd for its Fruit, but fuch as at this Day (known to the INDIANS in MALABAR, (d) or DECAN, (e)) fpreads branching fo broad and long, that the bended Twigs take Root in the Ground, and grow round about the Body of the Tree, from whence they first shot forth; which makes a Shade like Rows of Pillars arch'd high over, and having Walks between; there the INDIAN Herdfmen often fhunning the Heat fhelter themselves, and tend their Herds as they feed, cutting a Paffage through the thick Shade. The Leaves

(d) Malabar; Indian. A vait Country of India, lying along the Weft Coast of the Peninfula from Cape Comorin, over against the Island of Ceylon, to Canara, on this Side of the Ganges; in Length about 180 Leagues, or 324 Miles; but no where above 100 in Breadth; and the most fruitful, temperate and populous Region in the World. It contained formerly feveral Kingdoms, which in the Time of Sarma Perimal, about 730 Years ago, were all fubject to one Sovereign: He embraced Muhammedanifm, divided his Kingdom among his Relations, and went in Devotion to Mecca, and died there; but many of the People are Pagans ftill, and others have embraced Chriftia

nity of late, by the Miffionaries fent thither by the King of Denmark in 1706.

(e) Decan; Ind. i. e. The South. A Royal City of a Kingdom of the fame Name in India, belonging to Malabar, in many Islands, on this Side of the Ganges. It has Bengal on the Eaft, the Indian Sea on the Weft; Bifnagar on the South, and the Mogul's Country on the North. There, these broadleav'd Fig Trees grow in Abundance, which Milton hints, at here the Leaves of the Bonona Tree in Peru are four or five Foot long, and about two Foot wide. Another grows there, which is about twelve Feet long and five broad, which the Natives ufe for a Table Cloth.

Leaves of thofe Trees they gather'd, which were very broad, and with what Skill they had few'd them together, to gird their Waifts. Vain Covering, if defign'd to hide their Guilt, and the Shame that they dreaded! O how unlike to their firft naked Glory! Juft fo COLUMBUS (f) found the AMERICANS, (g) only girt round with Feathers; who elfe were naked and wild among the Trees, on Iflands, or by the Sea Shore. ADAM and EVE having made thefe Aprons, and as they thought in Part cover'd their Shame, were nevertheless not at Reft or Eafe in their Minds

(f) Columbus; Gr. Lat. i. e. A Dove. Chriftopher Columbus or Colon, born in Cugureo, but others fay at Neray, near Genoa in Italy. He from his own Knowledge in Geography, and from the Information of an old Sailor Alphonfus Santrius, (whom he faved in a Shipwreck) difcovered America, under the Name and Aid of Ferdinand King of Spain, A. D. 1492. But it was first discovered about 300 Years before, A. D. 1170, by Madoc a valiant Prince andSon of Owen Guinneth King of Wales; as is related by Lynwric Ap Grano, Galyn Owen, Peter Martyr, Humphry Lloyd, David Powell, Sir John Price, Richard Hackluyt, Sir Thomas Herbert, &c. which was farther confirmed by the Reverend Mr. Morgan Jones, Chaplain of South CaroLina, who lived four Months with the Dog Indians, and converfed with them in the Old British Language. Laftly, that Prince Madoc was buried in Mexico, appears by the Epitaph on his Monument lately found there. See the Gloucester Journal and Daily Poft, &c. March

6, 1740.
After all the Service
done to Spain, Columbus was bu-
ried at Sevil, with Contempt.

(g) Americans; the People of America; fo called from Americus Vespucci or Vefpufius, a Florentine, who difcovered this New Worla, A. D. 1597. and five Years after Columbus. America is furrounded with the Ocean on all Sides, and is not contiguous to Afia; as the Ruffians have lately discovered. It is as large as the three known Quarters of the World; for Mexico (or North America) is reckoned by fome to be about 23000 Miles, and Peru (or South America) 17000 Miles in Compafs: That is, if all the Land upon Gulphs, Promontories and lands were duly measured. It contains from N. to S. about 8220 Miles, and from E. to W. 6540 M. Plato, Ariftotle, Diodorus Siculus, and other Antients gave fome dark Hints of America; and other Authors affirm that the old Carthaginians traded to it. But how could that be done without the Ufe of the Compafs and other Helps of Navigation, not known to the Antients?