A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c.

Date:
1719
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Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The old eft and beft Book in the World is the Bible, I therefore begin with it. They had it in the Land of the Israelites in moil: wonderful Plenty. There was Ho¬ ney upon the Ground (i Sam. 14. 25.) It dropped from the hollow Trees, or the Clefts of Rocks, where Bees made their Combs; and fometimes upon the Ground, as Bochart hath fhewn; and obferves this was not pe¬ culiar to Jud*a, but ufual in other Coun¬ tries. Wild Honey was fo plentiful there, that it gave occafion to that hyperbolical Speech in Job (20. 17.) He Jhatt not fee the River the Floods, the Brooks of Honey and But¬ ter. And in 2 Efdras 2. 19. mention is made of Fountains flowing with Milk and Honey, Honey was fo confiderable, that they paid Tithe of it, as well as of Corn, Wine, and Oil. 2 Cht 'on. 31. 5. The Trade of Judah and Jfiael was in Honey, and reckoned in with that of Wheat, and Oil, and Balm. Ezek. 27. 17. They ftho it were fo common and plen¬ tiful ) efteemed it fit for Prefents. Jacob made choice of it (among other things, the beft he could procure in the Land) to fend to the (as he thought) incenfed Vice-Roy of /Egypt to appeafe him, and bring him to Temper. Gene/'. 43. u, Twas
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