Chap, r . of GARD^NINC;, &c. 5 



'Tis certain, one is too often, inftead of true 

 Heroifm, the unwarrantable Sallied of Am- 

 bition, Cruelty, and Bloodfbed 5^ ^X^hi^ft the 

 Other is an innocent Amufement, and a Com- 

 panion for Humility, Moderation, and other 

 commeiidable Virtues. 



Since then the earlieft and beft Accounts 

 we have of Gard'ning are collected from (^) 

 Holy Writ, there is no room left to doubt of 

 its Antiquity, as being very negfr coeval with 

 the World, and Beginning of Time itfelf 



That God Almighty v/asriot only the Firfl P«itcr oVrf- 

 Author and Founder, but alfo the Regulator "'^°'^^'^^' 

 and Planter of Gardens arid Gard'nin^^ is no 

 lefs evident from the (/>) Text, which faith. 

 The Lord God -planted a Garden Eajlward in 

 Eden^ and there he pit the Man whom he had 

 form'd. 



And if (as (c) fome think) that iht Icno- 

 graphy or Plan of this Garden, or, to fpeak 

 more plainly, the Garden itfelf, was the Work 

 of the Third Day 5 it may from thence be fup^ 

 pos'd, that Garden's were before Gardeners, 

 (and therefore the immediate Work of God) 

 and that Horofcopy had not been ufed. 



That it commences its Da;te but a feur Adam» 

 Hours after the Formation of the World, a'nd 

 before the Accounts receiv'd of any other Art, 

 k evident from the latter end of the afore - 

 iiiention d Chapter (^), where that Operati- 



(a) Gen. I. {b) Gen. 2. 8. (c) Sir T, Brown'i GanUn^ 

 c/ C-yrus. (d) Gen. 2. 22, (Z^c. 



Br 7 Ot? 



