Chap. * y. -A Truuife of B O D I E S. 



Ut bis exordia pr/nt if, 

 Omnit, & ipfe tcner hominis coHcrevcrit orbis. 

 till in the end this admirable machine and frame of mans body, 

 was compofed and fafhioned up by fuch little and almoft infen- 

 fible fteps and degrees. Which when it is locked upon in bulk, 

 and entirely formed, fecmeth impoflfible to have been made* 

 and to have fprung merely out ofthefe principles> without an 

 Intelligence immediately working and moulding it at every 

 turn, from the beginning to the end. 



But withalhwe cannot chufe but break out into an exftafic of 

 admiration and hymnes of praile (as great Galen did upon the 

 like occafion ) when we reverently confider the infinite wife- 

 dome, and deep farre-looking providence of the all-feeing Crc- 

 atour and orderer ofthe world, in fo punctually adapting fuch 

 a multitude and fwarm ofcaufes to produce by fo long a pro- 

 greflc fb wondcrfull an effect : in the whole courfc of which, if 

 any one, the very leaft of them all, went never fo little a wry,the 

 whole fabrick would be difcompofcd and changed from the na- 

 ture it is dcfigncd unto. 



Out of our fliort furvey of which ( anfwerablc to our weak 

 talents, and (lender experience ) I perfwadc my felf it appear- 



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cth evident enough, that to eftect this workc of generation* d t hadmitof 

 there needeth not be fuppofed a forming virtue or Vis for- v* & 

 wttrix of an unknown power and operation, as thofe that 

 confider things fuddenly and but in grofle, do ufe to put. Yet 

 in dilcourfc, for conveniency and (nortneffe of exprcffion we 

 fhall not quite banifh that tcrme from all commcrcewith us; 

 fo that what we mean by it be rightly underftood, which is the 

 complex affemblement, or chain of all the caufes, that concur 

 to produce this effect, as they arc let on foot to this end by the 

 great Architeft and Modcratour of thcm,God Almighty, whole 

 inftrument Nature is : that is, the fame thing, or rather the 

 fame things fo ordered as we have declared, buc cxprefled and 

 comprifcd under another name. 



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