\mere in a living Body. And this may properly be faid to be /ooſed,or diſſolved, or broken, or removed,as others render the word,the ſenfe of all theſeTranſlations being the ſamegbecauſe it is relaxed,or obſtru&- ed,or otherwiſe diſenabled for its proper ſervice. And anſwerably hereunto by :he golden vow! he underflands the Membranes of the Brain, and eſpecially that innermoſt Membrane which is called by Anatomiſts, zhe piow morher, becauſe it doth with a motherly care defend the Brain, and afliſt and govern its ations, which infinuates it ſelf into all the parts of the Brain,following it in its various wind- ings and turnings,keeping each parcel of it in ifs proper place, and ditinguiſhing and dividing one part from another,to prevent difor= der and miſchief. This is not vunfitly called a bowl, partly becauſz it is round;and partly becauſe it receives and contains 1n it all the ſub. ſtance of the Brain : anda gelden bow], partly for its great preciouſ- neſs and uſefulneſs; partly for its ductility, being drawn out into a great thinneſsor fineneſs,as Gold is capable of being drawn ferth irto thinner plates than other metals can bear ; and partly for its colour, which is ſomewhat yellow, and comes nearet to that of Gold than any other part of the Body doth. And this is well ſaid to be brokey,as for the reaton above noted. fo becauſe upon the approach of Death it is commonly fhrive]'d up,and many times broken. And as theſe two former clauſes concern the Brain; and the animal Powers;ſo the two following clauſes of this verſe reſpe& the Spring aid ſeat of the vital Powers andOperations, and of the Blood, the great inſtrument there- of, which hath been commonly conceived,and confequently isfiere und:rſtoodyto be tle Liver,but triore truly and certainly is the Heart, which is now known and confeſſed to be the ſource of the blood. And ſo Solomon here deſcribes the chief Organsor Veflels ap- pcinted for the ProduQtion, and Diſtribution, and Circulation of the
£,-< | = 5 g « The paſſion of Fear 1s obſerved to be moſt .mcidenr to o'd Men, ! Blood in Man's Body. For although the Dodririe of the Circulation
of which divers Reaſons may be given. = Either 1. Ofhigh things, leſt they ſhould fall upon them. Or rather 2. Of high places, of 2'1ng up hills or ſtairs, which is very irkſome to them, becauſe of their weakneſs, and wearineſs, and giddzneſs, and danger, or dread of falling. And this clauſe,rogether with the nexr may be rendred thus, and that agreeably to the Hebrew Text, 4!ſo they ſball be afraid and terrified, ( Two words expreſſing theſame thing, which is very | frequenr in the Hebrew, ) ef that which is high in rhe way. When
, * They walk abroad they will dread to go;up any high or ſteep places;
'y Leſt 25 they are walking, they ſhould ftamble, or fall, or be thruſt down, or ſome infirmity or mifchief ſhould befal. them. z Their | Flowers. Such Metaphors are not unuſual in other Authors. Hence | Sophocles calls a gray or hoary Head fowry, and again, covered with white flowers. a If it doth accidentally hop up and reſt upon them, | They cannot endure the leaſt byrden,being indeed a burden to them. | ſelves. But rhe words may be, and are by others rendred, the locu#'! (as the ancient Interpreters, and many otkers renderit ; or, as ours, | and ſome others, the graſbopper, which comes to the ſame thing ; for theſe tws ſorts of infe&s are much of the ſame nature and " 3,Hy )
ſhall be # bu-den to it ſelf. And by the lecuſt or graſbopper may be un:
blance to it, in ſhape, by reaſon of the bones ſticking out, in the conſtitution of the Body, which is dry and withering, and in the 1S ws being conſumed. Or he Back, which firly follows after the Head upon which the Al-
which formerly was able to bear great burdens,bur now through its
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of the Blood hath lien hid and unknown for very many-Genefations rogether, and therefore the honour of Invention of ic is juſtly aG cribed to a famous Phyſician ofour Country; yet it is aot improbably ſuppoſed by ſome, thatir was well known to $9010n, although after his times it was Iofſt, as doubtleſs mmany other thing were, which he wrote concerning Plants,and other things. According to this notion the fourttain here is the right Ventricle of the heart which is now ac- knowledged to be the ſpring of Life,2nd ofthe vital Spirits,and rhe pitcker-is the veins which convey the Blood from it to other parts; & eſpecially that arterious Vein, as Anatomiſts call it, by which itis tranſmitted to the Lungs, and thence to the Tefr Ventrick of the Heart, where it is betterelaborited,and then by rhe Pulſe rhrufk out » into the great Artery, called Ac: aorra, and by irs branches dif- perſed into all the parts of the Body, to give thein Life and Vigour, which being done the reſidue of rhe Blood is carried back by the Veins into the right Ventricle of the Heart, whenee it is diſpoled,as hath been now mentiened, and foruns in a.perpetualround, unleſs it be obſtru&ed by fome diſorder in the Body. And the often 5s the left Ventricle of the Heart, and the' wheel ſeerns to be'the great Ar- tery which is joyned to it,which is very Tely fo ealted;beeaufe 2t 19
; the firſt and great inſtrymenr of this Rotation or Circulation of the
Blood, which by its Pulſe is forcibly thruſt out into all the parts of the Body,whence,by various windings and turnings,t returns thither again, and (o is ſent againupon the ſame journey ,wkichin)like man- ner it perforins again and again,as long as Life and Health contin; and when any of theſe parts are diſenabled forthe diſcharge of their Offices;then are they fitly ſaid to be broken. Thepirchir may be ſaid
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