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The Common Places
The common places of the most famous and renowned divine Doctor Peter Martyr divided into four principal parts: with a large addition of many theological and necessary discourses, some never extant before. Translated and partly gathered by Anthony Marten, one of the sewers of her Majesties most honourable chamber.The common places of the most famous and renowmed diuine Doctor Peter Martyr diuided into foure principall parts: with a large addition of manie theologicall and necessarie discourses, some neuer extant before. Translated and partlie gathered by Anthonie Marten, one of the sewers of hir Maiesties most honourable chamber.
Imprinted at London : In Pater noster Rowe, by Henry Denham and Henry Middleton at the costs and charges of Henry Denham, Thomas Chard, William Broome, and Andrew Maunsell, 1583Imprinted at London : In Pater noster Rovve, by Henry Denham and Henry Middleton at the costs and charges of Henrie Denham, Thomas Chard, VVilliam Broome, and Andrew Maunsell, 1583
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29 It is said, 1that God planted Paradise in Eden. But this word Paradise, although it be common as well to the Greeks as to the Hebrews, yet in very deed it is an Hebrew word, since Solomon used the same in Ecclesiastes the second chapter: and it signifieth a garden. 2So great a care had God of man, whom he had created, as he would have him set in a place of the greatest pleasure & delight. 3Eden in the second chapter of Genesis signifieth a region, so called by reason of the pleasant and delectable soil. And that the same was a region, we gather by divers places. 4In the fourth chapter of Genesis it is said of Cain, that he lived like a runagate in the land of Nod eastward from Eden. And in the 27. chapter of Ezekiel there is mention made of the children of Eden, 5which are joined with Chamne & Charam. And we know that Charam is a region of Mesopotamia, unto which Abraham went, when he came forth of his country. So likewise we read of the children of Eden, in the 37. chapter of Isaiah: wherefore it is not only known to be a region; but by the reading of these prophets, we conjecture the coast & site wherein it is. Further, of the garden of Eden, there is oftentimes mention made in the holy scriptures; but that is by a manner of comparison, when the pleasantness of any place is to be expressed, as in the second of Joel, 6in the 51. of Isaiah, and in the 28. of Ezekiel. Wherefore (in mine opinion) they are very much deceived, which will understand all things here by allegory: for it was a garden indeed, planted by the commandment of God.