Volume 1

The treasvrie of avncient and moderne times. [Containing, ten following bookes to the former Treasurie] the learned collections, iudicious readings, and memorable obseruations ... / Translated [by Thomas Milles] out of that worthy Spanish gentleman Pedro Mexio. And M. Francesco Sansouino, that famous Italian. As also, of these honourable Frenchmen, Anthonie du Verdier, lord of Vaupriuaz: Loys Guyon, sieur de la Nauche, counsellor vnto the king: Claudius Gruget, Parisian, etc.

Date:
1613-1619
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Credit: The treasvrie of avncient and moderne times. [Containing, ten following bookes to the former Treasurie] the learned collections, iudicious readings, and memorable obseruations ... / Translated [by Thomas Milles] out of that worthy Spanish gentleman Pedro Mexio. And M. Francesco Sansouino, that famous Italian. As also, of these honourable Frenchmen, Anthonie du Verdier, lord of Vaupriuaz: Loys Guyon, sieur de la Nauche, counsellor vnto the king: Claudius Gruget, Parisian, etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    S. Amhrofe in Lib.de Paradi. in Epft. S;i- bin. 4^, Fran. Georg, in Llcnno. [ant.i. Philo ludaic. in Lib. dc Plant* dc Noa. Wharconflru- (Sionhathbm madeof]?a- radife. S, Ambrofe in Lib.dc Paradi. in Epifi. ad Sabin. Philo ludaic. i. Lib. de Allegor. Lc. tr¬ io immebtles. In vphdtfoe tier place ofthe Earth it fSy it may be vnder flood to be in the Eafi^ in efUmatton or regard of the Heauens^ or reffefi of the Earths diuers Jcitnations^ be- fide the 'view of the two Poles ^which are im- moueahle. Saint Ambrofe faith; How can 11?^ defer ibe thefeituation ofParadifeyohich we haue ncuerfeene > And if we could feeit.^ yetfJjould x0b(neuerthelejje>) be refirained fiom reuealingit to others, .\'‘ The things then that concerne this Garden of delights and happinelTe, doe out-ftretch the fenfe & capacity of men. Wherefore Francifetos Georgius faith; That Moyfes the wife deferiber thereof hath hut lighi lygone oner the report of Juch im¬ portant matters., and yet vnder Metaphors too^ tending alwaies to an-analogicali Jenjei Conf dering., that this Garden^ not Terre- siriili{ AS the vulgar doe imagine ) biit 'ra- ^-o ther Viuine and Heauenly., was planted by the Diuine and heauenly IVorke’man^ not in this perilhdble Earth, but in the Larid of the lutingy figured by the Land of Pro^ mife. And this is the reafoti, that! fuch as would willingly dilcouer fom'e-' whatjconcerning the fecrets hidden vn-| der the Veile bf the holy Hiftbryjhaue vvholy referred (whatfoeuer can be faid of Paradife) to thinges of cafter appie- henfionjand conuerted the fruitful trees thereof, into good manners of Life,and call it the Paradife of the Soule, where¬ in al vertucs fhould haue the fureft plan¬ tation. By the Ead (where they fuppofe it to beefeituated) they vnderftand the moft rcfplendilltmg Wifedomcj perfedlic cleare, and truelie Oricntall. And look IiowtheSunne (being rifen) difeouers all his bright beames vpon the heauens; in like manner, haue the vertucs fuch fhining beames, as they doe thereby pe¬ netrate into the Soule, and make it of a moft glorious lufter. This Paradife may likcwife reprefcnr,or defigne, the life of the bleifed ; or eUe the Church. And the foure Riuers flowing thence, bee CO mpared to thofe foure royall vertues: Prudence, Fortitude, Temperance, and luftice; Or elfe the four Gofpcls ;or the foureElements.TheTrcesmay lignifie all profitable difeiplines, or the lines of the Saints, their fuper-cxcellingfruites, with the holy Manners and religious VVorkes of the good and vcrtuous.The Tree of Life planted in the middefl; the 3P 40 Saint of all Saints, our L o R D Iesvs Christ: And the Tree of knowing good from cuill, the experience gotten by the firft tranfgreflion, or the Riches of mans free will before his Fall. In breefe,there is no one thatcan de¬ ny, but this Paradife may (Allegorical¬ ly) be transferred vnto fpiritualljaucafi- ons;as the two Teftaments wjtafigu- red in two Children, which Abraham had; by his Hand-maid Hagar the one, andby his Wife the other. Aslc- fusChrift was fignified anddeferibed, by the Stone and Rocke which Moyfes fmote, from whence the truth of holie Scripture dike the VVatcr) ilTued forth. philo the lew, and many more befidc him,bane conuerted the whole Narra¬ tion ofthis Paradife,into a fpiritiiall vn- derftanding, referuing (neiiertheleflc) the verity of the Hiftoricall difeourfe in his bodily Carradter. For the holie Dodours, doe hold by a common con- fent, that this Paradife hath been made infome certaine place of the World, and was planted with allkinde offlouri- fhing and fruitfull Trees. And it appea- reth, that Homer tooke the ftiapc ot the Garden of Akineusfiyj fomc former dc- feription made of Paradife, and it may bee trucly gathered‘/that his excellent reprefentation thereof, hee borrowed iiotsxiMoyfeSy in his fetcing downe the order bf the Garden of Paradife. Euen as Quid hath done the like, when he de- feribeth the Golden time or age of Sa- turne-y when the Earth did then bring forth all her rich cncreafe, without any labour beftowed thereon. Why then this Tcrreftriall Paradife may truly be faid to be vpon earth, and it bchooiicth vs to credit the truth of that holy Hifto- ry , which is fo much and often recom¬ mended vnto vSjby fo faithfull a rehear- fall,of all things that were done in elder times. Paradife fpiri- tually vnder- ftood, and in¬ terpreted. I Cor. 10, if). Exod, 17,6. Pl/do ludaic pi L'lb.'dc Allig Leg. I. Lib.gy^ Origen. Ambrofe. Imm.fiip.Dan. Danuif. Ltb.i. Cup.^i- 50 Hmsr Odyjf-j. Omd.Metmor. Ub. i. CHAP. V. of the difference hetweene^tiie Celeffiaf Kingdom e, and that of Paradife: Taken out of the indgement of Moyfes Bar- Cepha. T Here is a great diflcrcncc and con¬ trariety; betweenc the Kingdomc C Ccle-