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Trees,for fhould all the Boughs break out m one place, 

 or on one fide, the heavinefs of' that fide or part, 

 would bend down the body into a crooked nefs,and de- 

 prive it of that uprightnefs and (traitnefs, which is the- 

 moil: ufeful (ite of moft Plants ; and' thole that are 

 without thefe regulations, are generally fuch as are 

 made to grow upon and tWift about other things, and' 

 not to bear up themfelves, as Bind-weeds, and the 

 like. 



. • And now I am come thus far, there comes into my 

 minde that excellent Animadverhon which the molt 

 wife King made, when he had coniidered the feveral 

 Furpofes, Travels, Bufineffes, Changes 2nd .Over- 

 tures, which happen to us poor men while we are un- 

 der Heaven, in their feveral Seafons ; as particularly,, 

 in the days of our Birth, and the days of our Death,in 

 the days of our Planting or being Planted, and thofe 

 of our Plucking, £>: being Plucked up : When Men 

 get and Increafe their Hlbtes, and when theyLoofe, 

 grow Bankrupt and are undone ; in the days of their 

 jollities, Dancings, Lovings,' V'ooings and Embra- 

 cings ; as likewife in thofe cloudy and dull Seafons, 

 when fatiety of Enjoyment, indifpotition of Body, or 

 other unhappy accidents, has begot Peivifhnefs and 

 Loathing ; and when Tears and Mourning contrittate 

 all their glory and beauty : Concerning the feafon- 

 ablenefr and fitnefs of all the Hhtes of men; their 

 conditions, accidents and difafters in their feveral 

 times, this is his obfervation, Eccl. 3. That he had 

 Jeen the travel which God had given the Sons of men to 

 be cxer n 'fed .therewith , and found, that God by his 

 providence had made every one'of the things made, 

 beautiful in its time : More 'over , that he had Jet the age 

 in the middle of them > yet lb, that no man of them 



can 



