2 CULPEPER’ ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
In man he ended his work’; on man he ftamped his feal and fign of his power, on 
him he hasimprinted his own image and fuperfcription, his arms and his portraiture, 
Dixit Deus, faciamus hominum ad imaginem noftram, fecundum fimilitudinem noftram :* God 
faid, Jet us make man in our image, after our likenefs.” In the creation of man, 
God feemeth to deliberate and take council with himfelf, how to epitomize and gather 
together all his works in fo {mall a compafs, to contract his book of creation into fo — 
{mall’a volume. He is called the microcofm, or little world, the recapitulation’ of 
all things, the ligament of angels and beafts, heavenly and earthly, fpiritual and cor- 
poreal, the perfection‘of the whole work, the honour and miracle of nature. He 
created him’ naked, being a pure, neat, and delicate, creature, made up of thin, 
fubtile, well-tempered, and feafoned, humours, innocent, and far more beautiful 
‘than the ret} 
He was created upright, but little touching the earth, quite oppofite to the vegeta- 
ble plant, whofe root is therein fixed; far different alfo from the beaft, who isa mean 
between a plant and himfelf, and goeth downward, his two extremes tending to the 
bounds of the horizon: this upright gait belonging only unto the human fpecies, as 
the holieft and moft divine creature, his head tending to the heavens, on which he 
looks, and contemplates with grateful adoration the omni potence of his Creator. 
- His body being thus formed of pure fubtile earth, as a houfe and habitation for 
the foul, God breathed in him the breath of life, and he became a living creatures 
fo, in the ordinary generation and formation, which is made of the feed inthe womb, 
_ nature obferveth the felf-fame order; the body is firft formed, as well by the elemen- 
‘tary force, which is in the feed and the heat of the matrix, as by the celeftial influence 
of the fuh ; according to the adage, /ol et homo generant hominem: “ The fun and 
man do engender man ;” which is done, according to the opinion of the moft eminent 
: -_naturalifts and phyficians, in fuch order that the firft feven days the feed of the man 
__.and-the ova of the woman mingle and curdle like cream, which is the beginning ot 
“conception ; the fecond feven days, the feed is changed into a formlefs bloody fub- 
-ftance, and concoéted into a thick and undigefted mafs of flefh, the proper matter of 
othe: child { the next feven days, from this mafs is produced and fafhioned a " 
-body,-with the three moft noble parts, viz, the liver, heart, and brain 5 the fourth 
‘feven days, ot near thirty, the whole body is perfected,’ jointed, and organized, and 
is fit to entertain the foul, which invefts itfelf into the body (according to the beft 
authority) about the feven-and-thirtieth or fortieth day: at the’ third month, or 
thereabout, the infant hath motion and fenfe ; and at the ninth month is brought 
forth. Thefe times cannot be fo exactly prefixed, but that by the ftrength of ae 
a 
bility of the feed or matrix it may be either haftened or prolonged. But qT 
