We shall not call in the Hebrew _Tenapha_, or ceremony of their Oblations, waved by the priest unto the four quarters of the world, after the form of a cross; as in the peace-offerings. And if it were clearly made out what is remarkably delivered from the Traditions of the Rabbins, that as the Oyle was powred coronally or circularly upon the head of Kings, so the High-Priest was anointed decussatively or in the form of a X; though it could not escape a typical thought of Christ, from mystical considerators; yet being the conceit is Hebrew, we should rather expect its verification from Analogy in that language, then to confine the same unto the unconcerned Letters of _Greece_, or make it out by the characters of _Cadmus_ or _Palamedes_. Of this Quincuncial Ordination the Ancients practised, much discoursed little; and the Moderns have nothing enlarged; which he that more nearly considereth, in the form of its square _Rhombus_, and decussation, with the several commodities, mysteries, parallelismes, and resemblances, both in Art and Nature, shall easily discern the elegancy of this order. That this was in some wayes of practice in diverse and distant Nations, hints or deliveries there are from no slender Antiquity. In the hanging Gardens of _Babylon_, from _Abydenus_, _Eusebius_, and others, _Curtius_[120] describeth this rule of decussation. In the memorable Garden of _Alcinous_ anciently conceived an original phancy, from Paradise, mention there is of well contrived order; For so hath _Didymus_ and _Eustachius_ expounded the emphatical word. _Diomedes_ describing the Rurall possions of his Father, gives account in the same Language of Trees orderly planted. And _Ulysses_ being a boy was promised by his father fourty Fig-trees, and fifty rows of vines,[121] producing all kind of grapes. [120] Decussatio ipsa jucundum ac peramænum conspectum præbuit. _Cart._ Hortar. _l._ 6. [121] ὄρχοι, στίχοι ἀμπελῶν, φυτῶν στίχος, ἡ κατὰ τάξιν φυτεία. Phavorinus Philoxenus. That the Eastern Inhabitants of _India_, made use of such order, even in open Plantations, is deducible from _Theophrastus_; who describing the trees whereof they made their garments, plainly delivereth that they were planted kaτʼ ὄρχους, and in such order that at a distance men would mistake them for Vineyards. The same seems confirmed in _Greece_ from a singular expression in _Aristotle_[122] concerning the order of Vines, delivered by a military term representing the orders of Souldiers, which also confirmeth the antiquity of this form yet used in vineal plantations. [122] συστάδας ἀμπέλων. _Polit. 7._ That the same was used in Latine plantations is plainly confirmed from the commending penne of _Varro_, _Quintilian_, and handsome Description of _Virgil_.[123] [123] Indulge ordinibus, nec secius omnis in unguem Arboribus positis, secto via limite quadret. _Georg. 2._