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that the happy garden is to be won; for," at the east of the garden of Eden," hath not God placed "cherubims, and a flaming sword which turns every way, to keep the way of the tree of life"? and, therefore, the Epicurean is compelled, at last, to sink down, outside the trenches of paradise, into an inert and dreaming sensualist.