Fœcundity

As this fœcundity is owing to the air, it will be obtained only in those parts of a field thus prepared to receive it, as are exposed to the air.

And for the security of such species as are produc'd only by seed, it hath endued all seed with a lasting vitality, that so if by reason of excessive cold, or drought or any other accident, it happen not to germinate the first year, it will conintue its fœcundity, I do not say two or three, nor six or seven, but even twenty or thirty years; and when the impediment is remov'd, the earth in fit case, and the season proper, spring up, bear fruit, and continue its species.

So that the Son begotten thus from eternity by the essential fœcundity of the Father and his overflowing perfection, (which is no necessity imposed upon him, nor yet a blind and stupid nature, as that of fire burning or the sun shining), this divine apaugasma, or outshining splendour of of God the Father hath no precarious, but a necessary existence, and is undestroyable.