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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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are sowen in one bed of Earth and drawing the same juyce of the earth yet each seede retaines its owne Nature Tender Fruits come forth with Covers upon them the more hardy without And secondly If thou consider the manner of bringing forth our Fruits especially wee Aprecotts Cherries Plumbs and such as are of the most tender kinds our Fruits come forth with Coates and Garments upon their backs being so tender that without the same they could not indure the common Aire If thou observe thou maist see in our knitting time our infant Fruit within the Blossome no bigger then a Pinns head which increasing by little and little tears this Coate or Garment and throwes it off being then hardy enough to endure the Aire and so we grow on to ripenesse But we that are more strong and hardy Fruits Apples Peares c have no such Coates or Garments upon Us when we are born we are naked when we come first into the world our Blossoms fall off from us when first we begin to knit and appear and so we grow on to perfection HVSBANDMAN I perceve then hereby That that which some Learned Phylosophers call the Wisdome of Nature in takeing Care of it self in these things is but the Course and law of Nature but is indeed the Wisdome of the God of Nature who as he hath made all Creatures so he knoweth perfectly their severall Natures and accordingly provideth for them Section 23. HVSBANDMAN Well This is considerable in order to our admiration But what other particulers can yee tell us of to the same purpose Different substances made of one Substance FRVIT-TREES Take notice of and consider these particulers also Will it not cause Admiration to see and consider how many severall Substances are made of one Simple substance For of the Sap of Trees is made the Barke Wood Pith Leaves Buds Blossoms Stalks Fruit and Seed drawne from the same juyce of the Earth Defferent Gifts and Graces wrought by the same Spirit This illustrates to us that so it is in Spirituall things the paralell holds good the Variety of Gifts and Graces in belevers proceede from one and the self same Spirit as we see 1 Cor. 12.4 There are diversities of Gifts but the same Spirit And diversities of Administrations but the same Lord and ver 6 diversities of Operations but it is the same God that worketh all in all To one is given the word of wisdome to another the word of knowledge to another the Gifts of healing to another the working of Miracles to another Prophesie to another discerning of Spirits to another divers kinds of Tongues to another the interpretation of Tongues Every Gift ought to be improved for the profitt of all But all these worketh that one and the selfe same spiritt dividing to every man severally as he will 1 Cor. 12.12 By all which we should learne to owne and love one another and to be usefull and serviceable one to another every one according to the Gifts and Talents which God hath given unto them Let nor the Rich dispise the Poore nor the Poore envie the Rich let not the wise and Learned dispise the meaner sort who want what they themselves have such may have one Gift or other which the wise and Learned have not which may be usefull to the body let not the Eye say unto the Hand I have no neede of thee Nor the Head to the Feet I have no need of you for those Members of the body which seem more feeble are necessary 1 Cor. 12.22 The variety of Gifts Graces and endowments that men have are wrought by the same spirit and for whose Glory they are to be used and improved and for the Profitt of all Section 24. HVSBANDMAN Proceede further and tell us some other perticulars that may occasion our admiration in the knowledge of them for we know the works of God are marvelous and wonderfull and many of them past finding out and therefore God is to be admired in them Grafts and Buds assimilate the Sap of the Stocks FRVIT-TREES Consider this further That Grafts and Buds set upon stocks that are of wild kinds of bitter harsh and sower kinds these Grafts and Buds being of a sweete and pleasant nature and drawing and feeding upon the sower Sap of those wild stocks yet they do change alter this sower and bitter Sap that they draw and feede upon into their own sweete and pleasant Nature and bring forth Fruits according to their owne Natures And the badnesse of the stocks cannot alter the goodnesse of the Grafts but according to the Law and Course of Nature which all Vegetables do keepe from their first Creation they do convert all their Sap and nourishment which they draw into their own properties and bring forth Fruits accordingly And is not this a Marvelous thing that a great and large stock it may be 40. times and more bigger then the Graft that 's set upon it should not be able to change the little Graft or the Bud that is much smaller into it 's owne kind and Nature This then must be concluded That it is the innate intrinsecall forme of the Graft and Bud that maintaines and keepes inviolable that Law of Nature that the God of Nature at first Creation fixed in every individuall Who alone is to be Praised and Admired in these and all his workes Section 25. HVSBANDMAN What other perticulars do yee discover in the processe of Nature wherein God is seene and discovers his Wisdome and infinite excellencies that may occasion his Praise and Admiration when knowne and observed Every small Bud contains the Nature of the whole Tree in it selfe FRVIT-TREES Know and consider this further That every small Branch or Twigg upon the Trees yea the least Bud upon the least Graft or Twigg doth containe in it the Nature and property of the whole Tree Though one Tree have many Thousands of Buds upon it yet every perticular has virtually or potentially the whole Tree in it selfe though the Bud he never so small and the Tree never so great This is evident by Inoculating the Buds of any Tree continuall Experience proves they are the same and bring forth the same Fruits as the Tree from which they were taken HVSBANDMAN I grant this is a truth and apparent to continuall Experience from yeare to yeare and is a thing to be much Admired that all the Properties of a vast huge Tree should be united into so narrow a compass as a small Bud smaller then a Graine of Wheate Nay more The Nature and propertie of a great Tree though as bigg as 2. or 3. men can fathom with their hands joynd'd does lye in the Roote of that small Bud some of which are as small as a Pinns point this is proved by Experience Because when that small Roote happens to be left upon the wood in taking off the Bud to inocculate as sometimes it is such a Bud does not grow nor spring in the