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wife would have been accounted fables. 

 But Dr. Grew in his anatomy of vegetables, 

 and Mr. Ray in his wifdom of God in the 

 creation, have nearly exhaufted that part of 

 my fubjefl: : Sufficient antidotes againfh a- 

 theifm ! 



Wherefore I proceed to the other ar- 

 ticles mentioned ; and the lirft confideration 

 that prefents it's felf, is, the eftimate of the 

 comparative value of equal returns, that 

 may reafonably be made of the enfuing 

 growths of Oaks, with money put out to u- 

 fury : There being no likelihood, but when 

 there comes a peace, the national intereft on 

 money will be reduc'd to three per Cent : 

 For even now in time of War, the Crown 

 ' — The Publick — And the Merchant are all 

 pleading of the Parliament for it. Nor can 

 we trade upon equal footing with the Hoi- 

 landers^ till it is fo. Which fuppos'd re- 

 dudtion yields this triumph to it's new rival ; 

 that the fame is liable to no bad fecurities, 

 either on bond^ or mortgage^ or mifchance 

 of jire^ or failure of funds^ or ba7ik. 



And what I think well fupports this com- 

 parative computation, is, that the annual 



growth 



