same milky material will feed calves, lap-dogs, and 

 human bodies. 



How various are our dishes at an entertainment? 

 How has luxury even tired itself in the invention of 

 meats and drinks in an excessive and endless variety ? 

 Yet when they pass into the common boiler of the 

 stomach, and are carried thence through the intes- 

 tines, there is a white juice strained out of the strange 

 mixture called chyle, which from the lacteal vessels 

 is converted into the blood, and by the Jaws of na. 

 ture is conveyed into the same crimson liquor. This 

 being distributed through all the body by the arteries 

 is farther strained again through proper vessels, and 

 becomes the spring of nourishment to every different 

 part of the animal. Thus the God of nature has or- 

 dained, that how diverse soever our meats are, they,. 

 shall first be reduced to an uniform milky liquid, that 

 by new contrivances and divine art it may be again 

 diversified into flesh and bones, nerves and membranes* 



How conspicuous, and yet how admirable ar the 

 operations of divine wisdom in this single uiManee of 

 nourishment. But it is no wonder that a God who 

 could create such astonishing and exquisite pieces of 

 inarhinerj ,aj> plants and animals, could prescribe such 

 laws to matter and motion, as to nourish and pie* 

 serve the individuals, as well as to propagate thespe* 

 cies through all ages to the end of time. 



SECT. V. 



The similar Operations of Plants and Animals. 



IT is with admiration and pleasure we take notice 

 of the regular actions of animals even in their earliest 

 hours of life, before they c^n possibly be taugh any 

 thing by remark or imagination. Observe the young 

 sparrows in the nest, see how the little naked crea- 

 tures open their mouths wide to their dam, as though 

 they were sensible of their dependence on her care 

 for food and nourishment. But the chicken just re. 



