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neceffary, for abundant Security Nature hath in- 

 lerted in us a painful Senfe of Hunger, to put us 

 in mind of it ; and to reward our Performance 

 hath adjoin'd Pleafure to it 5 and as for the Con- 

 tinuation of Kind, I need not tell you that the 

 Enjoyments which attend thofe Ad:ions are the 

 higheft Gratifications of Senfe. 



VIII. The wonderful Art and Providence of 

 the Contriver and Former of our Bodies, appears 

 in the Miiltitude of Intentions he muft have in 

 the Formation of the feveral Parts, or the Qua- 

 lifications they require to fit them 

 * Bijipop of for their feveral Ufes. * Galen in 

 ^^j^g^''^-J^ his Book de Formatione F(Etus, takes 

 €. 6, notice, " That there are in a human 



" Body above Six-hundred feveral 

 " Mufcles, and there are at leaft Ten feveral In- 

 " tentions or due Qualifications to be obferv'd 

 " in each of thefe ; proper Figure, juft Mag- 

 " nitude, right Difpofition of its feveral Ends, 

 '' upper and lower, Pofition of the whole, the 

 " Infertion of its proper Nerves, Veins, and 

 '' Arteries, which are each of them to be du- 

 '' ly placed J fo that about the Mufcles alone 

 '' no lefs than Six thoufand feveral Ends or 

 '' Aims are to be attended to. The Bones are 

 " reckon'd to be 284. The diflincft Scopes or 

 '' Intentions in each of thefe are above 40 ; in 

 " all about looooo. And thus it is in Ibme 

 '' Proportion with all the other Parts, the 

 " Ski/7y Ligaments, Feffe/s, Glandules, Uimours : " 



■ '' But 



