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A26231 A dialogue (or familiar discourse) and conference betweene the husbandman and fruit-trees in his nurseries, orchards, and gardens wherein are discovered many usefull and profitable observations and experriments [sic] in nature, in the ordering fruit-trees for temporall profitt ... / by Ra. Austen ... Austen, Ralph, d. 1676. 1676 (1676) Wing A4233; ESTC R5888 40,239 128

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Fruits and flourish in our beauties all the Summer Some Christians go through great tribulations HVSBANDMAN These things we find to be so according to Nature And it is a very proper and apposite similitude of the state and condition of deseried soules all along in Each particular its one of those similitudes that runs equatuor pedibus it holds in all respects for so it is with Christians but more especially with some perticular persons one time or other in their life they indure and undergo hard and difficult things great affliction● Temptations and Tribulations which befall them according to the good pleasure of God who ordereth and overruleth all for their good and profit thereby purging out Corruptions and trying their graces to increase holinesse Ps 84.11 for god himselfe who is a Sunn and a shield to his people doth not only withdraw from their spiritts and hides his face and so leaves them in darknesse and they walk in darknesse Children of Light walk in darknesse some a shorter some a longer time But also he permitts many outward troubles afflictions and crosses to come upon them upon their Bodies Names Estates Relations Soule and Body all that concerns them are overwhelmed overturned broken and destroyed as to sence and appearance both to themselves and others that behold them Job 1 2 3. c. And during this long night of darknesse this hard and sharpe Winter season there is as it were a Death upon all they have for he that is the life of the Soule as the Soule is of the Body is gon their beloved is gone and hides himselfe They seek him but they cannot find him Cant. 3 2. The Poore and needy seeke water and there is none Isay 41.17 and their Tongue faileth for thirst they cry after him but he heareth not and makes as though he would never heare nor regard them any more The absence of this Sun makes all within and without darke yea more bitter then Death it selfe And more then all this the sence of the absence of God and also the apprehensions of the losse of God the irrecoverable losse of God is the same in some degree with the Torments of Hell Yea the worst and greatest of the torments of the Damned Paena damni the paine of losse is agreed by all Divines to be the greatest torment in Hell worse then the paine of sence that torments the Body though that be intollerable too Reve. 7.14 Hose 14.7 All these Temptations and great Tribulations some deserted soules go through and indure in this sharp Winter season But when this Sunn returnes and draws neere again the Fruit-trees begin to revive and spring They revive as the Corne and grow as the Vine and shoote forth their Rootes as Lebanon Then the Figg-tree putteth forth her greene Figgs and the Vine with the tender Grapes give a good smell Cant. 2.13 When this Sunn of Righteousnesse ariseth upon the Soule he refresheth and restoreth comforts to those distressed weary Soules Isay 57.18 which they are exceeding sensible of and are as it were overjoy'd As marriners at Sea when they are delivered from some Terrible Tempests and Stormes from which they were almost in dispaire to have escaped yet with much a do comming saffe to Land how are they transported with joy and gladnesse for their safe arivall at their desired Haven The light of Gods Countenance refresheth the Soule after darknesse This deliverance from these spirituall stormes and Tempests in this sharp Winter season is much more Yea more then can be expressed in words or shaddowed out by any similitude it is Joy unspeakable and full of glory Heb. 12.11 Then followes the peaceable Fruits of Righteousnesse all the rest of the Summer of their life with more light and Joy then if they had never been in darknesse Even as Fruit-trees after a long cold sharpe Winter when the warme spring comes on and the heate of Summer followes all flourish in their beauties and ornaments of Blossomes Leaves and Fruits Section 9. The opinion about descension of Sap Examined HVSBANDMAN Some learned men have thought and asserted that Sap in Fruit-trees doth descend in Autumne from the Branches to the Rootes which going down of the Sap causeth the Leaves and Fruits to fall off and the Branches to cease growing And Wood-men and many others receive it and hold it as their common opinion for an undoubted truth What say yee of your selves as to this matter FRVITTREES If Learned men and others are of that opinion they had best consider it againe and looke better into the grounds of their opinion secundae cogitationes meliores for we deny the thing Ther 's no going down of any of our Sap Nature is wiser then so to part with any Sap that it hath gotten our Sap is our Life it is our foode upon which we live and increase yearely and by which we are inabled to bring forth Blossomes Leaves and Fruits in Sommer yearely how come we to be of this bulke and bignesse as thou seest but by the assention of Sap and the digesting and assimulating of it into our substance of Wood Barke Leaves Blossomes and Fruits we should be glad of mo●e Sap if we could get it but we will part with none downe againe to our Roots for our Rootes are better stored with Sap all the yeare long then we the branches And besides this necessity of keeping it and impossibility of parting with it the Naturall and innate property of our Sap is alwaies to ascend there is an active vegetative spirit in us the Nature of which is alwaies to ascend and according to the Law of our Nature can do no otherwise it being a tenuous light Body or substance of a flammeous and aerious Nature whose appetite is alwaies upwards according to the knowne Axiome omne leve sursum Nay more should we part with any of our Sap downe againe we should then fade and decay our substance would be thereby diminished that as we increase one part of the yeare by ascension of Sap so we should also decrease another part of the yeare by descension of Sap and what then would become of us Therefore there is no such thing in Nature as descension of Sap in Trees No descension of Sap in Fruit-trees HVSBANDMAN I am perswaded as ye have said That there is no such thing in Nature as descension of Sap in Fruit-trees and have severall Reasons against it besides what hath been said For no Effect can be produced without a Cause Now there is no Cause can be so much as colorably assigned for such an Effect in Nature Therefore we conclude there is no such thing for Sap when it moves alwaies ascends never descends If any man be yet unsatisfied concerning this touching the descension of Sap in Trees it being deeply radicated in their minds and an opinion of long standing he may receive further satisfaction concerning it from six perticular Arguments against it grounded upon Reason