Volatiles from the history of Adam and Eve containing many unquestioned truths and allowable notions of several natures / by Sir John Pettus ...
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Volatiles from the history of Adam and Eve containing many unquestioned truths and allowable notions of several natures / by Sir John Pettus ...
Author
Pettus, John, Sir, 1613-1690.
Publication
London :: Printed for T. Bassett ...,
1674.
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Bible. -- O.T. -- Genesis I, 5 -- Commentaries.
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Cap. 1. Ver. 30.
And to every Beast of the Earth,and to every Fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the Earth, wherein there is life, I have given every Green Herb for meat. Beasts & Man being created as is supposed much about one time, their food also was appointed the same; there is only this differance, that we find not any food assigned to them, until Man was first served; and then to shew the difference of their Appetites, it is said to Man, Behold, I have given you every herb, &c. But to Beasts, Fowls, and creepers, every green herb; to shew that Beasts were led to their Food by Sence, but Man by his Intellect. If the
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vertue of the Plant do not satisfy his knowledge of it, the Colour is not to in∣tice, the Eye is not to be judge of his Appetite, though allowed to Beasts.
This Green is the first Colour that is mentioned in Scripture, and this pro∣perly the first place; and indeed no co∣lour is so pleasing to nature, and so stu∣pifies the understanding, it being im∣possible to find out why nature should mantle her self more universally with this colour then any other; unless it be admitted that the beams of the Sun on the sudden reflecting upon Earth, do usually produce a Yellow colour, which being mixt with the Azure colour of the Air, and contemperd with the Li∣quid part of the Earth, sends forth a Green: For the mixture of Yellows and Blues produceth Greens. And where it is denied to the superficies of the earth by shades or otherwise, it unites its force, and runs into the bodies of trees, & after asecret ascention mounts to the highest branches with a more sublime verdure. And these green Vegetables were to invite the appetite of Beasts without inquiry; it was Mans part properly to know their Natures and vertues.