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rator ejus ex uno grano (vix credibile diBu) 400 

 paucis 77iinus germina : Mifit & Neroni fimiliter 

 360 Jiipidas ex uno grano, " Which Fertility 

 *' Nature, (he fliou'd have faid, ^ the Author of 

 " Nature) hath conferred upon it, becaufe it 

 " feeds Man chiefly with it. One Bufhel, if 

 *' fown in a fit and proper Soil, fuch as is Byza- 

 *' dim, a Field of Ajricdy yielding 150 of an- 

 l' nual lucreaie. Augujlus^^ Procurator fent him 

 " from that Place 400 within a few Blades 

 "" fpringing from the fame Grain : And to Ne^ 

 *' ro were fent thence 360." If PU?iy, a Hea- 

 then, could make this Fertility of Wheat argu- 

 mentative of the Bounty of Godto Man, ma- 

 king fuch plentiful Provifion for him of that 

 which is of mod pleafant Tafte and wholefome 

 Nourifliment, furely it ought not to be palTed 

 •over by us Qhrijliam without Notice taking and 

 Thankfgiving, 



As for the Signatures of Plants, or the Notes 

 impre/Ted upon them, as Lidices of 

 their Virtues, though ^" fome lay * ^^- ^'^^^ 

 great Strefs upon them, accounting c. 6. 

 them ftrong Arguments to prove, that 

 fome under ftanding Principle is the highefl: Ori^ 

 ginal of the Works of Nature, as indeed they 

 were, could it certainly be made appear, that 

 there were fuch Marks defignedly fet upon them ; 

 becaufe all that I find mention'd and colJedted 

 by Authors, feem to me to be rather fancied by 

 Men, than defign'd by Nature to fignify or point 

 out any fuch Virtues or Qualities as they would 

 make us believp. I have elfewhere, Inhink 



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