PREFACE, xxvii 
Entertainment of our outward Senfes 
of Sight , Smell , and Tafle. 3. They 
afford a good Man a large Field of 
Meditation , even by viewing them , 
tho curforily ; but efpecially when he 
attentively and judicioufly confiders 
their Vi ariety , Growth , Kinds , Beauty, 
Ufes , Nutrition , circulating “Juices, 
&c. he will rationally conclude. How 
manifold are thy vegetable Works, 
0 Lord f Yet in TV if do m hajl thou 
made them all : So that thine invifible 
Things, from the Creation of the World, 
are clearly feen, being under flood from 
the Vegetables that are made, even 
thine eternal Wifdom, Power, and 
Godhead. 4. Who dare pronounce 
any of them ufelefs , even to us f For , 
tho we know not their Ufes at prefent, 
yet they may be defignd for excellent 
Purpofes , in due Time to be dif covered. 
And, tho ’ they fhould indeed be ufelefs 
to us, yet are there not many yet un- 
known Tribes of Infect Animals to be 
f applied both with Food arid Phyfick f 
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