6^ The Hist KY Chap. i. 



in Vegetables, are fo very full and nume- 

 rous, that I muft pafs them over with this 

 general Acknowledgment, inafmuch as they 

 will many of them be found in the enfuing 

 Work 5 and his Wonders of the Creation ought 

 to be read by all. 



Doubtlefs thefe Gentlemen had the fub- 

 limeft tafte of Gardening that ever any had : 

 They were not content with Fertur^ 'tis 

 reported, (as was my Lord Bacon -^^ but 

 Experientia docet^ we are taught by Expe- 

 rience fo and fo : And when they came to 

 make thofe Inferences, which are or ought 

 to be the Refult of every virtuous Man's 

 Labour and Praftice, as they ftudied it on 

 purpofe to demonftrate the Being of a God 

 infinitely Wife, Powerful, and Good $ fo 

 they always concluded their Speculations in 

 pfal. civ. this or the like Phrafe, O Lord^ how manifold 

 ^^* are thy Works ! in mfdom hafi thou made them 

 all : the earth is full of thy riches. 



And altho' Vegetation is in fome refpefls 

 accounted the meaneft part of the Creation, 

 yet from thence the pooreft Perfon may 

 argue, If this Tree or Plant cannt be made bj 

 the mofi curious Art'ijl amongjl us 3 how is it 

 pofHble that Chance^ or the fortuitous con- 

 courfe of Atoms^ pould jump together in its 

 Formation^ or form the Earth on which it 

 germinates and flour ijl)es ^ And from thence 

 will revolve, that there mufi be an Almighty 

 Fower^ that not o?ily made^ but alfo Jtill go* 

 verns thefe creeping Vegetables^ as well as the 



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