27.' 4 Trettife f B O D I E S* 303 



erh: which he thinkcch cannot be prcyentcd by any art or in- 

 duftry. 



And herein God hath exprefled his great mercy and good- 

 neffe towards us: for feeing that by the corruption of our own 

 nature, we are fo immerfcd in flefh and bloud, as we flioukl for 

 ever delight to wallow in their mire , without raifing our 

 thoughts at any time above that low and brutall condition: he 

 hath engaged us by a happy neceffity, to think'of and to pro- 

 vide for a nobler and farre more excellent ftatc of living thac 

 will never change or end. 



In purfuance of which inevitable ordinance, man ( as if he 

 were grown wtary and otit of love with this life > and (corned 

 any term in his farm here, fincehe cannot purchafe the fce-fim- 

 ple of it) hafteneth on his death by his unwary and rafh ufe of 

 meats, which poyfbn his bloud : and then his infected bloud 

 pa/Ting through his whole body,muft needs in like manner taint 

 it all at once. For the redrefle of which milchicf, the affiftance of 

 phyfick is made ufe of: and that pafling likewise the fame way, 

 pu nfieth "the bloud , and recovereth the corruption occafioned 

 by the peccant humour ; or other whiles gathering it together, 

 it thrufteth and carrieth out that evill guefhby the paflages con- 

 trived by nature to disburden the body of unprofitable or hurt- 

 full fuperfluities. 



CHAP. XXVII. 



Ofthf motions of fenfe', and of the fenfible e/Halttics in 

 genertll; Mid in particulars ft ho ft which belong 

 to Touch, Taft, and Smelling. 



HAving thus brought on the courfe of nature as high as li- j. 

 ving creatures ( whole chief fpeciefes or divifion is thofe Th? connexion 1 

 that have (enle) and having declared the operations which are ^'^ "haprcn 

 common to the whole tribe of them which includeth both plants wtHche P :cc- 

 and animals; it is now time we take a particular view of tliole, 

 whofe action and pafiion is the reafbn why that chief portion of 

 life is termed fcnfitive; I mean the fenfes , and the qualities, by 

 which the outward world corr.eth into the living creature 

 through his fenfes. Which when we fhall have gone throrgh, 



we 



