ii4 75^^ Wisdom of GOD Parti. 



upon good Grounds, rejefted them : and finding 

 no Reafon, as yet, to alter my Opinion, I (hall 

 not further infift on them : Howbeit, I will not 

 deny, but that.the noxious and malignant Plants 

 do many of them difcover fomething of their 

 Nature by the fad and melancholick Vifage of 

 their Leaves, Flowers and Fruit. And that I 

 may not leave that Head wholly untouched, one 

 Obfervation I (hall add relating to the Virtues of 

 Plants, in which I think there is fomething of 

 Truth 5 that is, that there are, by the wife Dif- 

 pofition of Providence, fuch Species of Plants 

 produc'd in every Country, as are moft proper 

 and convenient for the Meat and Medicine of 

 the Men and Animals that are bred and inhabit 

 there : Infomuch that Sole?2ander writes, that 

 from the Frequency of the Plants that fprung up 

 naturally in any Region, he could eafily gather 

 what Endemial Difcafes the Inhabitants thereof 

 were fubjedl to : So in Denmark, Friezland^ and 

 Holland, where the Scurvy ufually reigns, the 

 proper Remedy thereof, Scurvy-Grafs, doth plen- 

 tifully grow. 



Of Bodies endued with a fenfttive Soul, or Ani- 

 mals. 



I proceed now to the Confideration of Animate 

 Bodies endu'd with a fenfitive Soul, call'd Ani- 

 mals, Of thefe I {hall only make fome general 

 Obfervations, not curioufly confider the Parts of 

 each particular Species, fave only as they ferve 

 for Inftances or Examples. 



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