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READER. 
Lt hough the ancient Heathens did appropriate thefirft 
inuention if the knowledge of Herbes, and/oconft- 
quently of ' Phyfuke , /ome Vnto Chiron the Centaure i 
and others Vnto Apoilo or /Eculapius his jonne . yet 
wee that are Chrifiians haueout of a better Schoole 
learned, that God, the Creator of Heauen and Earth , 
at the beginning 'it hen he created Adam , inspired him 
with the knowledge of all natur all things ( 'which fuc- 
ce finely def cended to Noah afterwardes y and to his 
'Posterity ) : for, as he was able togiue names to all the lining (features,, according 
to their J'euer all natures ; fo no doubt but hee had alfo the knowledge, both "what 
Herbes and Fruits were fit,eytherfor Meate or Medicine, f or Vfe or for Delight. 
And that Adam might exercife this knowledge , God planted a Garden for him to 
hue in, (-wherein euen in his innocency he Was to labour and fpend his time) which 
hee Jlored with the be ft and choyfeft Herbes and Fruits the earth could produce , 
that be might haue not onely for necefutie whereon tofeede, but for plea/ ure alfo - 
the place or garden called Paradi/e importing as much, and more plainly the Words 
fet downe in Genefis the fecond, which are thefe ■ Out of theground the Lord 
God made to grow eucrie tree pleafanc to the fight and good for meate- 
and in the 24.. of Numbers, the Parable of Salaam, mentioning the Aloe trees 
that God planted • and in other places if there Were neede to recite them. Put my 
purpofeis onely to Jhewyou, that Paradife was a place (whether you will call it a 
Garden, or Orchard, or both, no doubt of fame large extent ) wherein Adam Was 
firft placed to abide . that God was the Planter thereof, hauingfurnifhed it with 
trees and herbes, as well pleafant to the fight, as good for meate, and that hee being 
to drejfe and keepe this place, mufi of necefity know all the things that grew there- 
in, and to what vfes they ferued, or elfe his labour about them, and knowledge in 
them, had been in Vaine. And although Adam lost the place for his tranfgrefion, 
yet he lojl not the naturali knowledge, nor vfe of them : but that, as God made the 
Whole world, and all the Creatures therein for Man, fo hee may <vfe all things as 
well of pleaf ire as of necefsitie, to bee helpes Vnto him to ferue his God. Let men 
therefore, accor din's to their firfi inflitution , fo vfe their fcruice, that they alfo in 
them may remember their feruice to God, and not (like our Grand-mother Eve) 
Jet their affe Elions foftrongly on thepleafure in them, as to dejeruc the Ioffe of them 
in this P aradife, yea and of Heauen alfo. For truly from all forts of Herbes and 
Flowers we may draw matter at all times not only to magnifie thefreator that hath 
gtuen them fucb diuerftties of formes , fents and colours, that the mofl cunning 
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