Charming Creature, if you would taste this Fruit, you would be _like God himself_ in Wisdom and Knowledge: All the Secrets and all the Mysteries you are now ignorant of, will be manifested to you. _Adam_ came during the Discourse, and having told him what the Serpent had said, proposed to him to eat of the forbidden Fruit, which after a Short Pause he comply’d with. The Tree was a large Vine; _Eve_ took twelve Grains of a Bunch of Grapes, gave eight to her Husband, and kept four to herself. At that very moment, _Adam heard a very terrible Voice, Wo to thee! hast thou so soon forgot the only Commandment thou hadst promised to observe? how comes it that thou hast (by thy Greediness) polluted the Purity of my Habitation?_ _Adam_ being confounded, excused himself by laying the Fault upon _Eve_, who endeavour’d to justify herself by accusing the Serpent. Upon which God ordered the Angels immediately to drive _Adam_ and _Eve_ from Paradise, to Strip them of their Clothes, and take away the Crowns they had on their Heads[349].——But it is high time to return. Footnote 349: _Mahometism fully explained, by_ Mahomet Rabadan, _a_ Moor _of_ Arragon _in_ Spain, _for the Instruction of the_ Moors _in that Kingdom, who were then violently persecuted there_. Translated out of _Spanish_ by Mr. _Morgan_, with a design to give us a better Notion of the _Mahometans_, and to place it in the rich Library of the late Earl of _Oxford_. Printed _A. D._ 1724. Satan, who imploy’d the Serpent in his Service, is supposed to be punish’d here under the Figure of a Serpent: But why in the Presence of our first Parents? Perhaps for such Reasons as these, _viz._ 1. To reproach their Inadvertency for suffering themselves to be imposed upon by a lying Spirit, who, if but resisted by a meer Negation, would have fled. 2. To let them see that no Creature, tho’ never so great, can rebel with Impunity; from whence they might conclude, what to expect from new Provocations. 3. They had no other way to see a Spirit punish’d, but under some visible Form. It could not but give them some secret Satisfaction to see their cruel Enemy tremble at the Bar. It is observable here, that the _Promise of the Messiah_ was made to _Adam_, before the Almighty past upon him the Sentence of Death. How surprizing this! to find the Death of Christ _published_, before the Death of _Adam_ was _pronounced_. The Death of _Christ_, the _Innocent_; before the Death of _Adam_, the _Criminal_. The last Remark I shall make here is, that the Earth, tho’ cursed for Man’s Sin, still puts on the Face of a Paradise, abounding with an innumerable Variety of good Things; yea, and those so delicious and pleasant to Mankind, that many wish to live in it for ever. Thus they confine their Hopes and Fears to the present State, and are so far from believing a Life to come, that they can hardly persuade themselves to believe, that they shall leave this present Life.