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from the State. Wherein he faw fo fane , that now in fomany AgeJ 

 fince the Prohibition , foe, haVe memory , not of one Ship that eVer re-* 

 turned , and but of thirteen Terfons only, at federal times , that cho/e I 

 to return in our (Bottoms. What tho/efcto that returned , mayhaVe 

 reported abroad , Iknotfnot. But you fnuB think , Whatsoever they 

 have faid ) could be taken where they came, but for a bream. NoTb jflij 

 our Travelling from hence into farts abrodd y our Law- giver 

 j thought fit , altogether to rejirein it. So is it not in China, For ihe\ 

 ! Chinefes fail where they will, or can^ which jhefbetb, that their Law 

 | of keeping out Strangers , is a Law of Tufiflanimity arid fear. But 

 [this refiraint of ours, hath one only Exception , "which is admirable ; 

 (Preferring the Good "which commeth by communicating 'wltkStr anger s } 

 and avoiding the Hurt : And I wiU now open it toyou. Jndhere 

 I Jhall feem a little to digreffe , but you "wiU by and by find it pertU 

 nent. Te Jhall under sland y ( my dear friends, ) that amongft the 

 Excellent aBs of that King, one aboVeaUhathihepreheminenoe.lt 

 was the Erection, and Inflitution of an Order, or Society , "which "we call 

 Salomons Houie 5 The Nobleft Foundation , {as we think,) that 

 j ever "was upon the Earth : A nd the Lanthorne of this Kingdome. It 

 \is dedicated to the Study of the Works and Creatures of GOD. 

 Some think it beareth the Founders Name a little corrupted , as if it 

 jhould he Solamon's Houfe. But the Records write it, as it is fpo- 

 ken. So as I take it to be denominate of the King of the Hebrews, 

 which is famous with you , and no fir anger to us ; For~wehaVe fome 

 Tarts of his Works , which with you are lojl ; gamely that Natural 

 Hiftory , "which he wrote of all plants , from the Cedar of Libanus^ 

 to the Mofle tnat groweth out of the Wall. A nd of all things that 

 have Life and Motion. This maketh me think that our King find- 

 ing himfelf to Symbolize , in mary things , "with that King of the 

 Hebrewes ( "which lived many years before him ) honoured him "with 

 the Title of this Foundation ■ And lam the rather induced to be of this 

 Opinion , for that 1 find in antient Records , this Order or Society 

 is fometimes called Salomons Houfe ; A nd fimetimes the College 

 of the Six Daies Works,- thereby 1 amfatisfied, That our Ex- 

 cellent King had learned from the Hebrews , That G D had 

 created the World, and all that therein is 3 "within fix Daies ; And 

 therefore he inflituted that Houfe , for the finding out of the true 

 .Nature of aU things ( whereby GOD mought have the more Glory 

 j in ihe Workrnanjhip of them , and Men the more Fruit in their life of 

 tbem> ) did give it alfo that ficond Name. But now to come to our pre- 

 fent purpofe % When the King had forbidden, to all his Teople, Navi- 

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