De Plantatione

Having, therefore, now said what is proper concerning the original planter and the original plant, let us next proceed, in due order, to the consideration of matters of instruction and imitation. In the first place, then, the wise Abraham is said "to have planted a field at the well of the oath, and to have called upon the name of the everlasting Lord God." [*](Genesis xxi. 33. ) And here there is no peculiar property of the plants mentioned, but only the magnitude of the place.