The history of the propagation & improvement of vegetables by the concurrence of arts and nature ... / by Robert Sharrock.

  • Sharrock, Robert, 1630-1684.
Date:
1660
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Credit: The history of the propagation & improvement of vegetables by the concurrence of arts and nature ... / by Robert Sharrock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lal ean finde ont the work. that God maketh from the begins ty wing to the end. ae v4 : ‘ 4 thall noc Apologize for tranflaring TAN the age Nor D171 in che middle of them, becaufe I know the }| words, and methinks the fenfe and context: bear ic tht be(t, but fhall beg leave by a parallelifn to apply it to S the prefent matter; the placing, not the timing of MH things, andto exprefs my thoughts thus: That God §) has made every thing beautiful inits place, order and } {cituation, and particularly every part of every Vege- nol! table, and has alfo fer the world fo curioufly wrought welll and modell’d, inthe middle of us, yet fo, that by yeu] reafon of our various affairs and bufineffes, and other J) fancies , no man can finde out the work that God i hath made from the beginning to the end. | Laftly, I muft beg leave to make the fame conclu- (@| for and Appendix to the Obfervation, that the King (| has there appof’d to his, (vz.) Thae the true and | onely ufe that can be made of thofe elegancies and beauties which in every afpect fuggeft them{elves un- B tous, isnoother, but that we Rejeyce in them and in I their Maker, and do good imthis hfe. Imean, that | we puzzle not ourfelves over-much, nor difcruciate our Spirits to refolve what are the caufes, and what che manner of caufation of the apparent effects of Gods great power, any further then as our labour may ferve for thofe excellent and. firmly together in- terwoven ends of rejoycing and doing good, and the rather , becaufe of the experiment which this molt wife Prince, who was helpt by the great riches of his rhen puiffaat Kingdome , (and fo not impeded by thofe wantsthat ufually difcomfit private perfons in fuch enquiries ) made himfelf and publifhed concer- ning his ownfearch , Eccl. 1, That he gave his heart to Seeks