The history of the propagation & improvement of vegetables by the concurrence of arts and nature ... Written according to observations made from experience and practice / By Robert Sharrock.

  • Robert Sharrock
Date:
1672
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Credit: The history of the propagation & improvement of vegetables by the concurrence of arts and nature ... Written according to observations made from experience and practice / By Robert Sharrock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    can find out the work that God maketh from the be- ginning tothe end.) I thall not Apologize for Tranflating caoyn the age or p42 in the middle of them, becaufe I know the words, and me- thinks the fenfe and context bear it beft, but thal] beg leave by a patallelifm to apply it to the prefent matter; the placing, not the timing of things, and to exprefs my thoughts thus: That God has made every thing beau- tifulinits place, order and ‘fituation , and particularly every part of every Vegetable, and has alfo fet the world fo curioully wrought and modell’d, in the middle of Us, yet fo, that by reafon. of our various affairs and bufineffes, and orher fancies, no man can find out thework thatGod hath made from the beginning to the end. Laftly, I muft beg leave to make the fame conclufion and Appendix to the Obfervation, that the King has there appos’d to his; (#2. ) That the true and only ufe that. can-be made of thofe Elegancies and Beauties, which in every afpect fuggeft themfelves unto us, is no other, but that we Rejoyce an them, and in their Maker, and do good inthis life. Imean, that we puzzlenot our felves over-much, nor dif- cruciate our Spirits to refolve what ate the caufes, and what the manner of caufation of the apparent effeéts of Gods great,-Power, any further then as our. labour may ferve for thofe excellent and firmly together interwo- ven