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A05312	An herbal for the Bible Containing a plaine and familiar exposition of such similitudes, parables, and metaphors, both in the olde Testament and the newe, as are borrowed and taken from herbs, plants, trees, fruits and simples, by obseruation of their vertues, qualities, natures, properties, operations, and effects: and by the holie prophets, sacred writers, Christ himselfe, and his blessed Apostles vsually alledged, and into their heauenly oracles, for the better beautifieng and plainer opening of the same, profitably inserted. Drawen into English by Thomas Newton.; Herbarum atque arborum quæ in Bibliis passim obviæ sunt. English	Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1587 (1587)	STC 15454; ESTC S108475	134,297	304

confederacie conspiring against Moses and Aaron and presuming to intermeddle in cases of diuine ministration without any commandement or calling of God were swallowed downe quicke into the earth that claue asunder and opened and that of the common multitude 14700. were destroied with the plague God commanded Moses to take twelue rods according to the number of their princes with euerie ones name written vpon his rod among the which there was Aarons rod being of the tribe of Leui. And Moses laid the rods before the Lord in the Tabernacle of the Testimonie And when Moses on the next day went into the Tabernacle of the Testimonie he found the rod of Aaron for the house of Leui to be budded and to beare ripe Almonds And Moses brought foorth all the rods from before the Lord vnto all the children of Israell and they looked vpon them and tooke euery man his rod. But Aarons rod was brought againe into the Tabernacle to be kept for a token of the late rebellion which mutinie and murmuring being quieted the rude multitude might euer afterward by beholding that rod take warning how they rebelled any more against God and his Ministers This historie yeeldeth a notable lesson to all persons in generall namely that no man vsurpe any office or intrude himselfe into any function vnlesse he be thereunto called by God or by the assent and appointment of such which haue authority from the spirit of God to deale therein As the Apostle to the Hebrewes witnesseth saieng that Christ tooke not this honour vnto himselfe to be made the high Priest but had the same giuen him by his heauenly father who appointed him a Priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech To whomsoeuer therefore this rod that is the cure and charge of gouerning and teaching the flocke of Christ by the preaching of the Gospell is appointed let him cheerfully follow his vocation and couragiously execute his function And as Aarons rod being afore withered and drie by diuine vertue became greene againe budded and brought forth good and wholesome fruit so likewise it is meete that such as be called to the office of the Ministerie in the Church of God should shew foorth the fruits of vertue and good works in themselues and by wholesome doctrine also instruct others vnder their charge to do the like and to shew foorth their sound and liuely faith by good and Christian actions And this did Christ earnestly require and vehemently inculke in his thrise asking of Peter whether he loued him and in inioining him to diligent feeding of the flocke Furthermore me thinkes the Almond may very aptly and conueniently serue for a Symbole or Cognizance of a Christian mans life wherein as afore hath beene said of the Walnut be interchangeably mingled sower with sweete rough with smooth hard with soft affliction with welfare and aduerse hap with prosperous state For by the wooddish and hard shell of the Almond are signified aduersities troubles miseries afflictions discommodities and missehaps Againe by the sweete and pleasant kernell may be meant prosperitie comfort ioy delectation release and mitigation of greeues sorrowes and all calamities The 49. Chapter Of the Plane tree and the nature thereof THe Plane is a forraine strange tree brought out of Asia hither into Europe for the goodlie shade that it giueth as appeereth in Pliny who writeth that it was found growing as far as Turwaine in France which was sometime the furthest bounds and limits of the Romaine Empire It spreadeth his branches and boughes very broade and wide his rinde is thicke and his leaues large much like in shape to the Vine or of that Plant which for the resemblance that it hath to an hand stretched out spred open is called Palma Christi and of some Cataputia maior the seede whereof hath a purging qualitie But the Plane tree leaues be not altogither so bigge and large as the leaues of this Palma Christi are and doe hang by long reddish stemmes The flowers be small pale and grow in small tuffets The fruit or berries be round rough and somwhat downish or woollie This tree by reason of his great large and broade branches stretching out themselues euery way most pleasantly is very fit and commodious to make coole arbours shadowy boothes to sit vnder in hot seasons Some are of opinion that bicause the Tilia or Linden tree serueth for the same purpose therefore to be the same that the Plane tree is And some thinke no lesse of the Beech for that Virgil giueth commendation of it for the like vse and purpose saieng Vnder the shade of broade beech tree Thou Tityrus tak'st thine ease Recording in fine Oaten pype Old clownish countrey Laies But doubtlesse they be much deceiued sithence in leaues there is no maner of resemblance or affinitie betweene them and the Plane Those trees indeed defend the Sun beames and yeeld very braue and recreatiue arbours to sit vnder as the Plane tree doth but there is not that beauty proportion forme and sise in their leaues neither such delightsome smell and comfortable sent Moreouer the Plane tree hath such vertue that no venemous thing will come neere it neither will any serpentes approch where it is yea it is so loath some and dreadfull to Flitter Mice and Backs that they dare neither build their nests vnder it neither can abide the shadow of it Holie and sacred writers therefore vse this same tree in their diuine writings and heauenly narrations and take from it pithy and elegant Similitudes As namely where Wisedome extolling dignifieng aduauncing and commending hir selfe vsing for the same many proper tearmes encomiasticall and reckoning vp sundry excellent and precious trees prooueth thereby hir selfe to be fullie furnished and richly adourned with all maner of vertues For she confesseth hir selfe to flourish fructifie and spread foorth hir beautifull branches as the goodly Plane tree that groweth by the water side For this tree greatly loueth moisture and is of nature so dry that it requireth watering yea wee doe reade in Macrobius how Hortensius for the loue that he bare vnto this tree did vse to bedew and water it with wine thereby to make it continue the longer and to shew the beautifuller And as the Plane spreadeth his boughes and braunches so wide and giueth such pleasant shadowe that Xerxes the king of Persia tooke singular delight to sit vnder it whole daies togither so likewise Wisedome comming out of the mouth of the most High with heauenlie comfort protecteth shadoweth recreateth defendeth all those that commit themselues vnder the shadowe thereof from all harme and danger And so did Dauid pray saieng Keepe me O Lord as the apple of the eie hide 〈◊〉 vnder the shadow of thy winges And likewise Ieremie The breath of our nosethrils the annointed of the Lord was taken in their nets of whom we said Vnder his shadow we shall be preserued aliue among the Heathen that is