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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33771	Adam in Eden, or, Natures paradise the history of plants, fruits, herbs and flowers with their several names ... the places where they grow, their descriptions and kinds, their times of flourishing and decreasing as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations and particular physical vertues together with necessary observations on the seasons of planting and gathering of our English simples with directions how to preserve them in their compositions or otherwise : ... there is annexed a Latin and English table of the several names of simples, with another more particular table of the diseases and their cures ... / by William Coles ...	Coles, William, 1626-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing C5087; ESTC R8275	685,192	638

ADAM in EDEN OR Natures Paradise The History of PLANTS Fruits Herbs and Flowers WITH Their several Names whether Greek 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 the places where they grow their Descriptions and Kinds their times of flourishing and decreasing as also their several Signatures Anatomical appropriations and particular Physical Vertues Together with necessary Observations on the seasons of Planting and gathering of our English Simples with Directions how to preserve them in their Compositions or otherwise A Work of such a Refined and Useful Method that the Arts of Physick and Chirurgerie are so clearly laid open that Apothecaries Chirurgions and all other ingenuous Practitioners may from our own Fields and Gardens best agreeing with our English Bodies on emergent and sudden occasions compleatly furnish themselves with cheap easie and wholsome Cures for any part of the Body that is ill-affected For the 〈◊〉 greater benefit there is annexed a Latin and English Table of the several names of Simples With another more particular Table of the Diseases and their Cures treated of in this so necessary a Work By William Coles Herbarist Then the Lord took the Man and put him into the Garden of Eden Gen. 2. 25. LONDON Printed by J. Streater for Nathaniel Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1657. To the TRULY NOBLE AND Perfect Lover of LEARNING Sir William Paston Knight and Baronet Most Honoured Sir NOtwithstanding the generall Dedication of this Herball which you will sind at the Foot of my Epistle to the Reader I have thought it absolutely necessary to apply my selfe to your Worship in Particular humbly beseeching you to give me leave to commit it to your more immediate Protection that in case it should meet with any malevolent Spirits that should have any thoughts to cast forth their venemous detractions and aspersions upon it the Luster of your name appearing in the Front might cause them to vanish no otherwise then the ●octurnall Spirits doe at the approach of the Sunne That which imboldened me though a stranger to you to presume so much upon your goodnesse was the generall repute that you have really deserved by those propitious Aspects that the Noblenesse of your Nature hath vouchsafed to cast upon those that bend their endeavour towards the advancement of any designe tending to the publique good especially if it be in order to the laudable study of Physick wherein you have approved your selfe a good Patriot aswell as by those happy discoveries you have communicated to the World but more especially in that rare cure of the Gout which your Charity hath dispensed with so much successe and comfort to many that have been afflicted with that painfull disease For as not only those that follow military imployments may be said to deserve well of their Countries but also those that by a more contemplative kind of Life or lesse Corporally active do lay out their Parts and hazzard their Reputations by exposing their Labours to the view of the censorious multitude So they that protect the latter are as worthily to be commended as they that command the former And amongst the rest Students in the Herbarary Art are as profitable Members as any other for besides that they are Trumpets of Gods glory setting forth it selfe so wonderfully in th●se Praesentemque refert quaelibet herba Deum Vegetables they are also by some called the Handes of God because they are his Instruments to apply those things unto Mankind that he hath Created for their preservation And in this respect Physick may be said to be more effectuall then Divinity it selfe for though the Charmer or Preacher charme never so wisely yet if the Auditor be not compos m●ntis but like the Deafe Adder he will lose his labour But such are the Powerfull vertues of Herbs administred by a skillfull Professor that they will even restore those that have lost their Senses and so not only make them capable of good Counsell and wholesome instruction but cause both mind and body to resume their pristine Integrity And thus in all Humility I lay it down at your Worships feet not without some hopes that you will be pleased to accept it and to pardon the boldnesse of Sir Your most humble Servant W. Coles To the Reader Courteous Reader TO make thee truly sensible of that happinesse which Mankind lost by the Fall of Adam is to render thee an exact Botanick by the knowledge of so incomparable a Science as the Art of Simpling to re-instate thee into another Eden or A Garden of Paradise For if We rightly consider the Addresses of this Divine Contemplation of Herbs and Plants with what alluring Steps and Paces the Study of them directs Us to an admiration of the Supream Wisdome we cannot but even from these inferiour things arrive somewhat near unto a heavenly Contentment a contentment indeed next to that Blessednesse of Fruition which is onely in the other World for all our Pleasures here having but the fading Aids of Sense are beholding or rather subjected to our humane Frailties so that they must in respect of our Expectations in some kind or other ever fall short Neverthelesse most certain it is amongst all these transitory Entertainments of our Lives there is none more suitable to the mind of man then this for I dare boldly assert that if there be any one that is become so much an Herbarist as to be delighted with the pleasant Aspects of Nature so as to have walked a few turns in her solitary Places traced her Allies viewed her severall imbroidered Beds recreated and feasted himself with her Fragrances the harmlesse delights of her Fields and Gardens He it is that hath embraced one of the greatest of our terrestriall Felicities Hence it is that Emperours Princes Heroes and Persons of the most generous Qualifications have trod on their Scepters sleighted their Thro●es cast away their Purples and laid aside all other Exuberancies of State to Court their Mother Earth in her own Dressings Such Beauties there are to be discerned in Flowers such Curiosities of Features to be found in Plants When God Almighty would have Adam to partake of a perfection of happinesse even then when he stood innocent he could find none greater under the Sun then to place him in a Garden Spencer the Prince of our English Po●ts seats all Pleasures in the Gardens of Adonis as the more ancient did in those of Al●inous and the Hesperides For my part my Genius and more particular Inclination hath for a long space made me subservient to the Sweetnesse of these Retirements the best Hours of my Life being spent in the Fields and in Physick Gardens more especially in that Famous One at Oxford where I made it a great part of my study to be experienced in this laudable art of Simpling of which I have already published a Treatise neither have I persued this imployment only for the private contentment that I received thereby much lesse out of a greedinesse of gaine