Meaning of fœcundity | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“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.”

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