AND FAMILY DISPENSAT ORY. 3 
not enter minutely upon this fubject now, but ave a more,particular defcription of 
it hereafter. . 
. The body of man confifts of a number of bones aii cartilages, which are the bafis 
and upholding pillars of the whole fabric, the joints are compacted with many liga- 
ments, and are covered with innumerable membranes : the members are fupplied with 
above thirty pair of fenfitive nerves, as with little cords; and all filled with as many 
arteries, like water-pipes, conveying vital {pirits toall parts; the empty places are fil- 
led. up with above four hundred mufcles of different forts, all covered with a fkin. 
Man, for whom all things were made, is nourifhed by the balfamic {pirits of vege- 
tables, and therefore doth confift of all thefe faculties, that {pring up as a token of 
health or ficknefs. The celeftial planets have alfo great influence over him; the 
moiftening power of the Moon is reprefented by the marrow which flows from the 
brain; inthe genital part is Venus feated , eloquence and comelinefs are the effects , 
of nimble-witted Mercury; the Sun hath a near affinity to the -heart; benevolent 
Jupiter hath his feat in the liver, the fountain of nutritive blood ; the fiery fury of 
Mars is lodged in the gall; the fpungy and hollow melt, the feat and receptacle of 
melancholic humours, is 4 perfect reprefentation of the cold planet Saturn. . I ndeed, 
the {pirits of the body do manifeft and hold forth the quinteffence of all things. The 
four ‘humours in man anfwer to the four elements : as the bile, which is hot and dry, 
reprefenteth the fires hot and moift blood, the air; phlegm, cold and moift, the wa- 
ter; cold anddry melancholy, theearth. Man is an admirable creature, the univerfe 
and epitome of the world, and the horizon of corporal and incorporal things. I 
fhall conclude this part with the faying of Zoroaftes: “‘O man! the workmanfhip 
of Re — emit for it is the moft seiiuece maliceince of God's hands ‘” 
A DESCRIPTION or THE HEAD, 
THE head of man poffeffes the higheft place in the body, and reprefents the 
-uppermoft and angelical region : it is the fort of man’s mind, the feat of reafon, the 
habitation of wifdom, the place of memory, judgment, and copitation : it containeth 
the brain, cold and fpongious by nature, inclofed with two fkins, the one,» more 
hard and thick, joining itfelf to the dura mater, the other, more thin and eafy, 
wherein lieth the brain inclofed, called pia mater ; it is foft and tender to the brain, and 
nourifheth i it, as a loving mother doth her young and tender babe; from the pia ma- 
fer iffue the finews and marrow that defcendeth and falleth down through ‘the 
vertebre of the back to the reins. In the brain is the feat and throne of the rational 
| foul, i in. which a are - very great | number of veins and arteries running through all the 
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