No suppliant crowds before the judge appear’d;
No court erected yet, nor cause was heard;
But all was safe, for conscience was their guard.”
Such notions of the felicity enjoyed by man in a state of innocence, were not confined to Italy and Greece, but have been discovered equally among the Persians, Indians, and Chinese. The Brahmins say, that in the beginning of the world, plenty was every where diffused, and milk, with wine and honey, flowed from fountains. Similar images were used by the Persian magi to convey a notion of primeval happiness.[206]
Thus Adam and Eve were happy in their situation, being placed in Paradise, which was delightful for agreeable and pleasing accommodations of every kind to regale their senses; it was stored with the utmost profusion of Divine bounty!
“O Jesus! at thy feet we wait,
Till thou shalt bid us rise,
Restor’d to our unsinning state,
To love’s sweet paradise.”