The Metallic Orchard

Since everything has its own distinct place, seed, and position, and increases and forms within its own kind; Oh, who then can doubt that GOD would not also have given to minerals and metals their seed, place, position, and order, as well as His blessing?

Should one or another perhaps object and say that metals have no seed, nor do they continue to grow, but rather that GOD made them right at the beginning, at the creation of the world, and let them be as they are?

To this, the answer is: everything that dies away must first grow; metals die away, as sensible mining folk original: Berg-Leuthe; the author frequently appeals to the practical experience of miners over theoretical scholars know and perceive daily; therefore original Latin: Ergo, minerals and metals must grow. GOD has shared His blessing with every created thing, that each should be fruitful and multiply, yet according to its kind. Should this blessing then have been given only to plants and animals original Latin: Vegetabilibus ac animalibus? This is not to be believed. Whoever [is] in the shafts, locations,