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tween the original and the present body, we cannot 

 determine. 



But to form it even as it is now, no less than a 

 divine power \vas requisite. No less could mix earth, 

 water, air, and fire, in so exact a proportion, and then 

 frame so many different parts, of so various figure, 

 texture and magnitude. God alone was able to form 

 the original fibres ; to weave those fibres into hollow 

 tubes ; to dispose these tubs, filled with their several 

 humours and variously interwoven with each other, 

 into different organs ; and of those organs connected 

 together in a continued series and due situation, to 

 finish so complicated and wonderful a machine as the 

 human body. 



15, Nothing was wanting now, but that the im- 

 mortal spirit should be sent into its habitation, to bear 

 the image of its Creator, and enjoy his glory. But 

 the manner wherein this was done we cannot tell 5 this 

 knowledge is too wonderful for us. And it is of no 

 use to indulge mere conjecture, where knowledge is 

 unattainable* 



10. Even the present production of the body by 

 generation is what no man can fully explain. But this 

 \ve know : the female ovaries, which hang on each 

 side the womb, contain abundance of small vesicles, 

 filled with a transparent liquor. Some suppose, that 

 each of these contains, in miniature, all the parts of 

 a human body : that when one of them is penetrated 

 by the male seed, it is rarificd and expanded thereby, 

 till it breaks the membranous shell, and by the fallo- 

 pian tube, falls down into the womb. Here, being 

 slightly fastened to the sides of the womb, it receives 

 nourishment from the mother, till the heart is formed 

 and begins to propel the blood to the extremities of 

 the still increasing body. When it is come to its full 

 size 3 by rolling to andfro 3 it tears asunder the enclosing 



