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the blood which is a convenient vehicle for the 
vital heat. Dent.iz. 23. They were forb-dden 
to eat the flefli with the blood thereof , becaufe 
it was the life thereof. Hence we may learn to 
take heed of murther , the prohibition of which 
followeth immediately after the other commandj 
that this is fo, appeareth, 
■I. Becaufe the parts of fome cri?<jf«w will live 
after that they are cutoff, and being put into the 
earth will draw moifture from it. 
2. Becaufe we fee how the body is varioufly 
affefted with the motion of the blood. Ihus we 
fee when we are moved to anger , how the blood 
doth boyl in the veins. So in fear the blood doth 
recede from the outward parts to the inward , 
which caufeth a palenefs in the face ; thus joy 
fendeth out the blood, and cauleth a rednefs in the 
face; thus when we are alhamed we blufh,fothat 
we betray our felves in a fault , according to the 
©Id faying, 
Heft quam dijficUe eB crimen non frodere vnltu. 
The affeftions that happen in the blood are the 
fame that happen in man. An Afs is foolifh, a 
Horfe hot in love, and in war, and a Wolf unruly, 
a Lyon bold, a Fox crafty , the Dog docile , and 
fo other creatures I could inftance in. The Tar- 
tars drink horfes blood to be valiant. Thofe 
beafts that are fat are fooneft old , the vehicle of 
their fenfe being taken away , vIk, , their blood, 
but a beaft hath no ratiqnall Soul , though it doth 
exert fuchaftions. Cen,<). 5. God will have the 
^lood of man revenged ^ brutes, the Ox that 
