AND FAMILY DISPENSA TORY. | °7 
to open or fhur: it is active; all the reft purely paffive. But that which is moft 
noble in this fenfe is, that the privation of the object thereof, which is darknefs, 
brings fear, and that naturally, becaufe then a man findeth himfelf robbed of fa 
excellent a guide; the fight in the light is inftead of company, wherein: man much 
delighteth. 
~“Hearine is the next fenfe to be confidered, whofe refidence is in wenieate “ie 
is in quality cold and dry, under the dominion of Saturn. They ate placed on the 
outfide of the head, in the felf-fame height as the eyes are,’as the fcouts of the 
body, porters of the fpirit, the receivers and judges of the founds, which always. 
afcend, They have their entrance oblique and crooked, that fo the found may not 
enter all at once, whereby the fenfe of hearing might be hindered, and not fo well 
able to judge ; and again, that the founds, being fugitive, might there lurk, and 
abide under his thadow, till the inftruments of hearing have gotten poffeffion 
thereof.. The finews, that are the organs of hearing, fpring each from the brain, 
and, when they come to the hole of the ear, they are wreathed together 5 the end is 
like. a worm, or little. teat, into which is. received the found, and from thence 
carried to the common wits, to diftinguith. The object of . the ear, or hearing, | is 
a found. or noife proceeding from the encounter of two bodies sa pleafant and 
melodious found {weeteneth and appeafeth the fpirir, confequently the body too, 
and drives maladies from them both; the fharp and penetrant doth trouble ‘and 
wound the Spirit, This fenfe hath many fingularities ; for the fervice of the body, 
the, fight, is _moft neceflary, but, for the fpirit, hearing hath the fuperiority ; 5 itis 
fpiritual, . the agent of | underftanding ; ; many that have ‘been blind have been great 
and wife phik fophers,. but never any that were deaf. In ‘brief, fcience, truth, ‘and 
virtue, have no entrance into. the foul but by the ear. Chriftianity teaches, that 
faith cometh by hearing, which the fi ght doth rather burt than help. F aith i is the 
belief of thofe things which. are not feen, which belief is acquired by hearing, - For 
all thefe-reafons,.and many more that might be inferted, the wifett have fo much 
commended hearing, the pure g guardian from all corruption, the health of the in- 
ward man... 
. SMELLING i is ; feated i in the nofe, g governed by Mars, and is hot and ay in ‘quality, 
and therefore. martial creatures, OF fach as are hot and dry of conititution, excel in 
this faculty, as dogs,. &c, _ From the brain cometh two finews to the holes’ of the 
ibrain,pan, , where beginneth 1 the concavity of the nofe, and thefé two are the ‘prd- 
perorgans or ingtruments | of fmelling they have heads like paps, into ‘which Hs 
received the virtue of. fmelling, ai and prefenting it to the common fenfe. - “Over i 
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" -Bwo organs is placed collatorium, or the noftrils, which concavity or ditch was made 
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