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the Formation ofaChild, inan Egg, aswellas ina wombs or of a Chick- 
en, out ofa Stone, as an Egg: And all Sorts of Awimals, as well as 
Plants, might propagate their Species, without Coition: and the 
like. For Infinite Power, needeth not make any difference in the 
Things it undertakes to. manage. But in that, thefe Things are not 
only wade, but fo made, that is, according to fuch certain Natural 
Laws, as to produce their Natural Effects 5 here is the Senfible and Il- 
luftrious Evidence of his Wifdom. Wherefore as the Wifdom of Govern- 
ment, is not feen,by the King his interpofing Him(felf in every Cafe; but 
in the contrivance of the Laws, and Conftitution of Miiffers in fuch 
fort, that it fhall be as effeCtnally determin’d, as if he did fo indeed: 
So the more complicated and vaftly Numerous, we allow the Natural 
Caujes of Things to bes the more duely we conceive of that Wi/dow, 
which thus difpofeth of them all, to their feveral Eyfecfs: All Things 
being thus, as Mizifters in the Hands of God, confpiring together a 
Thoufand Ways, towards a Thoufand Efedés and Exds, at one times 
and that with the fame certainty, as if he did prepofe to each, the 
fame Omnipotent Fiat, which he ufed at the Creation of the 
World. 

7. §. THIS Univerfal Monarchy, as it is eminently Vifible in all 
other Particular Oeconomies ; fo is it, no lefs, in that of Vegetables. 
Infinite Occurrences, and fécret Intrigues, ‘tis made up of; of which fe S othe 
we cannot skill, but by the help of manifold Means 5 and thofe, in Growth of 
the foregoing Idea, have been lately propofed. Wherein, although Pjans; if 
fome Experiments have been briefly touch'd: yet that which I have we obferve, 
hitherto chiefly profecuted, hath been the Avatomical Part 5 and that 
not throughly neither. Notwithftanding , fo far as Obfervations 
already made will conduét us, I fhall endeavour to go. And if, for 
the better clearing of the way, I have intermixed fome Conjectures; I 
think they are not meerly fuch, but for which I havelayd down fome 
Grounds, and of which, the Series alfo of the following Difcourje, may 
be fomie further proof. 
The Divine 
8. §. LET US fay then, that the Root of a Plant being lodged in  Fyp., 
fome Soil, for its more convenient growth; ‘tis neceflary the Soil How the 
fhould be duly prepared for it. The Raiz, therefore, falling and foak- Ground is 
ing into the Soyl, fomewhat diluteth the Diffoluble Principles, there- prepareds 
in contained ; and renders them more eafily communicable to the 
Root : Being as a Menftrunm, which extracteth thofe Principles, from 
the other greater and ufelefs part of the Soil. 
g. §. And the warm suv, joyned with the diluting Raim, by both, 
as it were a Dige/fion of the Soil, or a gentile Fermentation amongft its 
feveral Parts, will follow: whereby the Diffoluble Parts therein, will 
rot and mellow : that is, thofe Prizciples which as yet remained more 
fixed, will now be further refolued and unlocked, and more copioufly 
and equally {pread themfelves through the Body of the Soil. 
10. §. Thefe Principles, being with the growth of Plants continu- 
ally exhaufted, and needing -a repair; the fucceflions, therefore, of 
Wet, Wind, and other Weather, beat down and rot the Leaves and 
other Parts of Plants. Whereby thefe ¢ as Weeds which are wont to 
be buried under ground ) become a watural Manure, and Re-impreg+ 
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