Selected quad for the lemma: blood_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	artery_n	heart_n	vein_n	9,504	5	10.0908	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67906	Bentivolio and Urania in four bookes / by N.I. D.D.	Ingelo, Nathaniel, 1621?-1683.	1660 (1660)	Wing I175; ESTC R16505	565,427	738

never think it capable of better improvement then by conversing with you and since the Subject is Noble pray do not wrong it by omitting any thing which if it were not for your courteous regard of our Patience you would say concerning it I do not know replied Bentivolio how far your Civility may occasion your trouble but respecting your Commands I will go on That which I have ever look'd upon since I could distinguish one thing from another as the most admirable Work of knowing Nature is the most perfect of all living Creatures a Man whom as God hath made a rare Instrument of his own Happiness so I cannot but think that he design'd him for an unanswerable Proof of the Divine Skill and intended that he should alwayes have as near him as he is to himself a lively Demonstration of the God whom he is to adore Here I know not which to admire most the orderly Progress of his Wisdom in forming the Parts or the rare Contexture of the Whole when it is finish'd How would it transport you Eugenius if you could perceive the successive Methods of Generation by which the Embryo is fram'd in the Womb as plainly as you can see the regular endeavours of prudent Bees when they raise their waxen Cells through Glasse-windows made in the sides of their Hives Would it not astonish you to discern busie Nature laying the first Designs of a Foetus in its warm Receptacle impregnated with the Prolifick Virtue of both Sexes and having fill'd the Cell with a Crystalline Liquor as a proper material to work upon in the midst whereof the early bud of young Life first appears in a salient Motion then for the inclosing thereof in a fit Mansion see her invelop it with a thin Membrane and afterward observe how she draws from this Centre the various lines of Life which complete the whole Circumference whilst she carefully stretcheth some small Fibres from one side of this narrow Work-house to another not much unlike the manner of the subtle Spider when she fastens the slight Beams of her pendulous House to the walls of the Room where she dwells and when this rude Draught is to be brought towards a more perfect Form to see how judiciously she selects one of the longest Threds which being appointed for the back-bone she extends like the Keel of a Bark raising from each side proportionable Ribs and making them to meet in the middle at some small distance above it frames the Hull of this little Vessel and having prepar'd so much room to see with what care she begins to furnish it with agreeable Utensils as the Heart Lungs Liver and many others which to keep safe she covers with the Thorax and Abdomen like the upper Decks Designing a Head to these and having provided a small Mass of pulpous substance for the Brain she forms it into a round Tower for the principal Residence of the Soul and afterwards walls the Acropolis with a Skull having appointed the Inferiour parts for considerable services she proportionably strengthens the Members with hard Bones and that they might not be wearied with the burthen which they are to carry makes them insensible and tiesthem together with Muscles entred into the bone upon both sides of every joynt which are intended for Pullies of rare Motion not yet experimented and that as occasion requires there may be a communication of Sense through all the parts she unites the whole frame with Nerves which take their Original from the Brain Having bestow'd a small quantity of spirituous bloud upon the Heart as a stock to begin the Trade of life she also gives it Ventricles to receive it and convenient Doors through which it passes for the relief of its indigent Neighbours and by a perpetual Motion through Arteries and Veins both preserves and increases it self and walking its daily Rounds about the Body bestows upon every part the same food by which it self is nourish'd warming them all with a vital dew Whilst these things are doing and one that warily observes stands by and perceives how many dissimilar parts arise out of a little soft Glue and sees them put together with an accurate symmetry without any visible Artist attending to perform these excellent Operations what can he imagin but that a God is near who says Grow there a Bone here a Vein Let this be an Head and that an Heart It is also an evident testimony of the Divine Wisdom when after a few Months the just configuration of all the Parts being finish'd and they fenc'd with Skin the Medal of a little Man appears swimming in watry Milk that is encompass'd with Nourishment which now he needs to preserve his young life and to augment the Body to a just proportion where it also learns to suck before-hand and to prepare it self betimes for the Course of its after-life which is to suck still the same sort of Nourishmentbeing provided in the Breasts of the Mother that when the nine Months stock is spent or grown unfit for use it may not want something to live upon when it comes into the World When the Plastick virtue of the Soul hath discharg'd its duty and the Embryo out-grows his lodging Time having so matur'd its life that it is ready to fall from the Tree like ripe fruit that which was destin'd to live is born but that so feeble a thing as an Infant should so easily break its prison or open so many Doors can be resolv'd into nothing but the never-failing Skill which ever attends upon all Divine Operations Since Eternal Wisdom does take so much pains in forming of a Creature you will expect that when it appears we should see something correspondent to the Divine care and really we may For if we consider the Organs of Sense which beautifie it externally and the Faculties of the Soul with which it is accomplish'd within we must confess that the vigorous spirit of warm bloud or the Plastick power of a Rational Soul which have been imploy'd in this Work were only instruments to some nobler Agent and that it is infinitely above the Ability of our nature to produce such an excellent effect of it self is manifest in this that by the repetition of most watchful observations we are not able to understand how it is done When we consider the external Instruments of Sense we find them put by an ineffable skill in most useful places and just numbers and contriv'd with Accuracy of Proportion to their different Uses which is that they might be Avenues by which the Soul may sally forth of its close Cittadel into the open Campania of the great World by which means the Soul is completely fitted for a correspondence with all sensible Objects and so is both enabled to administer to its own necessities and made a rare Engine of Pleasure to it self being accomplish'd for many excellent Operations By the Eye our Mind grows acquainted with Light and beauty and through transparent Tunicles