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Show READER, =] Lthoughthe,anctentEfeathens did appropriate thefirft al inuention of the knowledge of Elerbes, andfo confe\\| quently of Phyficke, fome vuto Chironthe Centaure, jl) andochers vnto Apollo or AEculapins hisfonne , yet wee that. are Chriftians: hane.out of a better Schoole. A\\\\ learned, that God, the Creator of Heauen and Earth, yl ae thebeginnine when he created Adam , mspired hin Nios} ith the knowledge of allnaturall things (which fueaS ce/Siuelyde/cended to Noah afterwardes, and to his ble togiue names to all the lining (reaturesaccording Lotheir fenerall natures ; fonodoube but hee had alfothe knowledge, both what Hlerbes and Fruits werefit,eytherfor Meateor Meditine,for Ve orfor Delight: And that Adam might exerci[e this knowledge, God planted Garden for him to line in, (wherein euen in his innocency he Was to labou and{pend bis time)which hee ftored with the best and choy/eft Herbes and Freats the earth could produce, that be might haue not onely for nece/Sitie whereonto feede, butforpleafure alfo the place or.garden called Paradife importing as muchjand moreplainly the wards» fet downe in Genelis thefecond,which are thefe.; Out of the ground the Lord God madeto grow euetie treepleafant to the fight and good for meate 5 and in the.24..0f Numbers, the Parable of Balaam, mentioning the Aloe trees that Ged planted ; and in otherplaces if theredvere necde to recize them. But mys purpofess.ouely.tofhewyou, that Paradifespas.a place(whetheryou will callit a Gardensor Orchard,or both, no doubt offome largeextent): wherein Adam was. firftplaced to.abide , that God was.the Planter thereof, bauingfurnifhed it with trees and berbes,as wellpleafant-to thefight; asgoodfor meate, and that hee being to drefJeand keepe this placemuft of nece/sityAnow allthe things thatgrew thevee\ in, and towhat vfes theyferued, or elle bis labour aboutithem, and knowledgein. them,had been in vdine,. And althoughAdam lost the place for his tranfgre/sion, yet be loft not. the natural knowledgenor v(e of them: but thatjas God made the. whole world; and all the Creatures therein for Man, fohee may cvfe all thingsas wellof pleafure as.of nece/sitie, tabee helpes.vnto him to ferue his God. Let men therefore, according to theirfir/t inflitution; fo»fe theirferuice, that they alfoin them may remembertheir [erniceto God, and-not (like our Grand-moather Eve): Set their affectionsfoftrongly on thepleafure in them,as to deferue theloffeofthen in this Paradife,yea and of FTeauenalfo.. For truly from allforts ofElérbes and Flowers wemay draw matterat allitimes not only to magnifie she(reator that hath giuen them fuch dinerfities of formes, Jencs.and colours; that the moft cunning #43 Worke. |