Chap. 24. v47>M///^/BODIES. 17P 



heart in this tender beginning of a new animal containeth the whole body; 



feverall virtues ofall the parts that afterwards will grow out of Confirmed the 



it, and be in the future animal; in the fame manner as the heart d ^ ftr f j neof the 



of acoplete animal concaineth in it the fpecifikc virtues ofall the 



fevcrall parts of its own body, by reafon of the blouds concinu- 



all relbrtjng to it in a circle fiom all parts of its body, and its 



being nourished by that juice to fupply the continuall confuin- 



ption which the extreme heat of it muft needs continually occa- 



Cioa in its own fubftancc; wtareby the heart becometh 



in a manner the compendium or abridgement of the whole 



animal. 



Now this heart in the growing Embryon, being of the nature 

 of fire, as on the one fide it ftrcameth out its hot parts; fo on the 

 other it fucketh oyl or fewel to nourifh it /elf out of the adja- 

 cent moift parts; which matter aggregated unto it 5 being fcnt 

 abroad together with the other hot parts that fteam from it; 

 both of them together do ftay and fettle as fbon as they are out 

 of the reach of that violent heat , that would not permit tkern 

 to thicken or to red. And there they grow into fuch a fub/rance 

 as is capable to be made of fuch a mixture, and are linked to 

 the heart by Come of thofe firings that fream out from it ( foe 

 thoic fleams do likewife harden, as we flicwcd more parti- 

 cularly when we difcourfed of the tender ftalks of plants ) 

 and in a werd , this becometh ibme other part of th ani- 

 mal. Which thus encreafeth by order, one part being made 

 after another, untill the whole living creature be completely 

 framed. 



So that now you fee, how mainly their opinion diffcfeth 

 fromoursjfince they fay that there is actually in the feed a com- 

 plete living creature;for what elfe is a living creature,but bones 

 in fuch parts, nerves in fuch others, bloud and humours con- 

 tained in fuch and fuch places, all as in a living creature ? All 

 which they fay. But we make the feed to be nothing elfe but 

 one mixed body, of one homogeneall nature throughout; con- 

 fitting of fuch a multiplicity of rare and denle parts; fo ballan- 

 ced and proportioned in number and in magnitude of thofe 

 parts; which are evenly fliuffled, and aJike mingled in every 

 little parcel of the whole fiibftancean fuch forc,that the operati- 



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