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forementloned effect, I greatly doubt: And if they 

 {hould, I much miftruft their expectations would not 

 be anfweredj that intended melioration thereby : Foe 

 the Fruit, certainly by the lofs of the natural Seed, 

 would be very much itfpirked, and loofe the gene- 

 rality and noblenefs of its nature, as Animals do, and 

 as Vegetables fometimes ; as particularly I have ob- 

 ferved in Barberries, for I have feen a Tree that bare 

 every year on moil Bunches two forts of Barberries, 

 the one full, and of a deep red ; the other of a pale co- 

 lour, and thin fubftance, and inquiring into the caufe, 

 I found the former to have Stones in them, and the 

 latter delutute, which were, as I fuppofed, thereby 

 emaiculated. 



N. o. The €-oiicii4jlon of the Treatlfe, with one or two 

 choice observations of the wife and good Providence 

 cf God, which may be feen in the admirable make 

 of Vegetables, andfitnefs to their ends, which are 

 wot generally tah^n notice of, but are, with many 

 more, over fen by men bujle in the affairs of the 

 world. 



It was the fin of the Heathen that they did not rife 

 In their mindes from the contemplation of the beauty 

 of the creatures , to confider how fuch lineaments 

 could be made, and to glorifie thereby the wifdome 

 of the Maker. The particulars are infinite, that 

 ordinarily to a man exercifed in things and thoughts, 

 fuggetf themfelves to avouch Providence, and con- 

 fute the vanity of the old Fpicureans in the fimpieft 

 of their Tenets concerning the framing of this world, 

 of things by a cafuall concurrence of fmali motes in- 



tricated 



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