a 8 1 A Trfjtifi. e/ BODIES. Chap. 27. 



fitft matter of other Jiving creatures. Yet I do notinrend ro fay, 

 that the heart is perfectly framed, and completely madeup^with 

 all its parts and intlruments, before any ocher part be begun to 

 be matte: but onely the molt vertuous part ; and as it were the 

 marrow of it; which fcrveth as a fhop or a hot forge to mould 

 fpirits in : from whence they are diiperfed abroad to form and 

 noiirifh ochcr parts that ftand in need of them to that effect. 



The (Lootings or little red firings that ftream out from if, 

 mutt fu rely be arteries 'through which, the bloud ifluing from 

 the heart, and there made and imbued with the nature of the 

 feed . doth ru.nn* ; till encountering with fie matter, it en- 

 grofieth it felf into brain, liver, lights, &c. From the brain 

 chiefly groweth the marrow , and by confequent, the bones 

 containing ic, ( which ieem to be originally j but the out- 

 ward part of the marrow , baked and hardened into a ftrong 

 cruft by the great heat that is kept in : ) as alfb the 

 fincws ; which are the next principall bodies of drcngth, 

 after the bones. The marrow being very hot drieth the 

 bones; and yet with its aSuall moyfture it hume^eth and nou- 

 rifheth them too, in fome fort. The fpirits that are lent from the 

 brain do the like to the finewes. And Iaftly 3 the arteries and 

 veins by their bloud do chcrifh and bedew the flefli. Andthu* 

 the whole living creature is begun, framed, and made up. 



CHAP. XXV. 



Hw a Plant or Animall cometb to that 

 figure it hath. 



* T) lit before we go any further, and fearch into the operations 

 of "J AnS D of this animaLI, a wonderfull cflfeft calleth our confidcrati- 



orlinaf " C f d b d on unto ' E '* w ^ 1 ' c ' 1 ' $1 ' 1OW a P^ ant or animall comcth by the fi- 

 caufej, a$wdi gure it hath,both in the whole and in every part of it?Ariftotle, 

 corrorcai^ef a ^ ter ^ c ^^ c a ten his thoughts as far as Se could upon this que- 

 fca. ftion, pronounced that this effcft could not poMibly be wrought 



by the virtue of the firft qualities j 'but that it (prong from a 

 more divine origine. And moft of the contcmplatours of Na- 

 ture fincc him do fccm to agree, that no caufe can be rendered 

 of it ; but tlaat it is to be referred merely to the (pecificall 



nature 



