Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: planted a Gfove at Reer-Jheba; or whether at leaft a like Ordination were not in the Garden of Solomon, Probability may conteft. Anfwerably unto the Wif- dom of that Eminent Botanologer, and Orderly Dif- pofer of all his other Works. Efpecially fince this was one Piece of Gallantry, wherein he purfued the fpecious Part of Felicity, according to his own De- fcription. / made me Gardens and Orchards, and I planted Trees in them of all Kind of Fruits. I made me Pools of Water, to water therewith the Wood that bringeth forth Trees: (Ecclef. ii. 5, 6.) Which was no ordinary Plantation, if according to the Targum, or Chaldee Paraphrafe, it contained all Kinds of Plants, and fome fetched as far as India; and the Extent thereof were from the Wall of Jerufalem unto the Water of Siloah. And if Jordan were but Jaar Eden, that is, the River of Eden; Genefar but Ganfar, or the Prince of Gardens; and it could be made out, that the Plains of Jordan were watered not comparatively, but cafually, and becaufe it was the Paradife of God, as the'Learned Abramas hinteth, he was not far from the Prototype and Original of Plantations. And fince even in Paradife itfelf, the Tree of Knowledge ivas placed in the Middle of the Garden, whatever was the ambient Figure, there wanted not a Center and Rule of De- cuiTation. Whether the Groves and facred Plantations of Antiquity, were not thus orderly placed, either by Quaternios, or Quintuple Ordinations, may favourably be doubted. For fince they were fo methodical -in the Conftitutions of their Temples, as to obferve the due Situation, Afpedl, Manner, Form, and Order in Architectomcal Relations, whether they were not as diftinct in their Groves and Plantations about them, in Form and Species refpedlively unto their Deities, is not without Probability of C...