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A05099 The second part of the French academie VVherein, as it were by a naturall historie of the bodie and soule of man, the creation, matter, composition, forme, nature, profite and vse of all the partes of the frame of man are handled, with the naturall causes of all affections, vertues and vices, and chiefly the nature, powers, workes and immortalitie of the soule. By Peter de la Primaudaye Esquier, Lord of the same place and of Barre. And translated out of the second edition, which was reuiewed and augmented by the author.; Academie françoise. Part 2. English La Primaudaye, Pierre de, b. ca. 1545.; Bowes, Thomas, fl. 1586. 1594 (1594) STC 15238; ESTC S108297 614,127 592

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of liuing creatures might not be hindered hee hath not made the ligaments nor the filaments nor the sinewes of any such boisterous or stiffe matter but that the creatures may easily bend euery way whithersoeuer they list to mooue and turne their members Neyther hath hee made them of so tender and soft matter but that they are strong and powerful enough to holde fast all the members within their ioynts to the ende they might not easily become bare and thrust out of their places as also to furnish the creatures with strength and power which consisteth principally in the force and might of these partes It is requisite also that they shoulde be such because they are as it were in continuall labour and sustaine great stresses Wherefore they must needes bee of such matter as will not easily yeelde or weare away or breake in pieces And because all the members and all the ioyntes are not to sustaine labours and brunts alike therefore the Lorde hath very well prouided for that as hee hath done the like also in the composition and distribution of the bones For those members that must sustaine the heauiest burthens and greatest brunts that are to dispatch most laboursome businesse and therefore require the greater strength haue biggest strongest and mightiest bones ligaments and sinewes so that their bulke bignesse breadth and thickenesse are answerable to their necessary vses The lesser members and such as are to vndergoe lesse paine which are ordained to effect more fine and witty workes wherein Arte is more required then force haue also their bones ligaments and sinewes lesser and smaller so that in certaine places there are some bones passing small and sinewes which are onely as it were little threedes Thus much I thought meete for vs to vnderstand concerning the simple parts of the body nowe wee must consider the compound partes and first intreate of the outermost partes and so followe that which wee spake of the foundation of mans building to the ende that by little and little wee may set him vpright and consider him throughly in all his partes Therefore thy speach ACHITOB shall be of the feete and legges and of the armes and handes Of the compound partes of the body and first of the feete and legges and of the armes and hands Chap. 4. ACHITOB. Among the manifolde and great commodities which wee may reape by the diligent consideration of the Anatomy of the body there are two of greatest weight The first is to put vs in minde of our mortalitie in regarde of our bodies to the ende that we should not please ourselues too much in the beautie of them and so waxe prowde and abuse our selues as also that wee should remember all those testimonies which wee haue in the holie Scriptures of the frailtie of man and of his whole nature For when wee see that those partes of the body that are hardest strongest most firme and such as after the death of a man continue longest before they returne into powder and into that first matter out of which they were taken as namely those partes that were propounded vnto vs in the former discourse especially the bones I say when we see that these notwithstanding their hardnesse must in the ende returne to dust as well as the rest what shall wee thinke of the other partes that are softer and more tender and lesse able to resist corruption Therefore the spirite of God doeth so often by his worde call and send vs backe to that instruction which hee giueth vs by the matter whereof hee made and framed our bodies and by the consideration of our owne originall and birth to the ende wee shoulde learne to containe our selues euermore within the compasse of all humilitie and modestie as well towardes him as one towardes an other Hereof it was that Isaiah had commaundement giuen him from the Lorde to crie that all flesh i● grasse and all the grace thereof as the floure of the field Man that is borne of a woman saieth Iob is of short continuance and full of trouble Hee shooteth foorth as a floure and is cut downe hee vanisheth also as a shadow and continueth not Againe for the second point wee are taught to consider and to knowe by that prouidence of God which sheweth it selfe in the composition of the vilest and most earthy partes and in that frame which hee maketh for the building of the whole body howe great and woonderfull it ought to be in the residue namely in the noblest partes thereof especially in the soule if wee could see it with our eyes as wee beholde the body Wherfore that wee may the better knowe the excellent worke of God in this building we must raise it vpright before our eyes to the end wee may behold it on the out-side as it were a frame ready made from the foote to the top and from the foundation to the couering and highest part thereof The whole body of man is commonly diuided into foure principall outward parts which are called compound in respect of the simple partes spoken of before which serue for matter to make them of whereupon afterward they take the name of member according to that forme that is giuen to eche of them These foure principall parts are the head the breast the belly the outward partes namely the armes and handes the legges and feete The head endeth where the necke beginneth The breast comprehendeth that part which we commonly call the breast also the backe the ribs and whatsoeuer else is contained in them from the necke vnto the midriffe which is a skinne that separateth the heart and the lungs on the one side and the inferiour intralles on the other The belly reacheth from thence where the breast endeth vnto the bone aboue the priuie members and neare to the groine The extreme or outward parts are already named by vs and of them our present discourse shall be beginning as it were at the foundation vpon which all the body is laide First therefore wee see how God hath so aptly fashioned the feete that they doe not onelie beare vp al the rest of the body but also carry and recarry it wheresoeuer a man wil. Next the legs are set vpon them as it were the pillers of this whole building being closed in such sorte vnto them as neede requireth to helpe the feete to sustaine and beare vp all the rest of the frame laide vpon them For this cause Salomon calleth them the strong men that stoope in olde age when their vertue and strength faileth them For they bow through weakenes and tremble as the hands do which the same Prophet calleth the keepers of the house Now because the chief strēgth of the body lieth in the bones when the scriptures meane to set forth any violēt griefe as when a man is extremly pressed as it were altogether oppressed they say that his bones are vexed or broken or out of ioynt that is to say all
French Academy as it is diuided into seuerall dayes workes and distinguished by Chapters The first dayes worke Pag. 15 OF the creation of the first man and of the matter whereof the body of man is made Chap. 1. 22 Of the creation of woman Chap. 2. 28 Of the simple or similarie parts of the body namely the bones ligaments gristles sinowes pannicles cords or filaments vaines arteries and flesh Chap. 3. 34 Of the compound parts of the body and first of the feete and legges and of the armes and hands Chap. 4. 41 Of the backbone of the marrow thereof of the ribs and of other bones of mans body Chap. 5. 47 Of the share bone and marrow of the bones of the bones in the head and of the flesh of the muscles and of their office Chap. 6. 52 Of the kernels in the body and of their sundry vses especially of the breasts of women of their beauty and profite in the nourishing of children and of the generation of milke Chap. 7. 57 Of the fatte and skins of mans body and of their vse of the haires thereof Chap. 8. The second dayes worke 62 Of the bodily and external sences especially of touching of their members instruments and offices Chap. 9. 67 Of the eyes and of their excellency profite and vse of the matter and humors whereof they are made Chap. 10. 73 Of the tunicles and skinnes of the eyes of their forme motions of their sundry coulors of the sinewes whereby they receiue sight and of other parts about the eyes Chap. 11. 79 Of the eares and of their composition office and vse Chap. 12. 85 Of the diuers vses of the tongue of the instrumēts necessary both for voyce and speach howe there is a double speach of the forme thereof how the spirite of man is represented thereby Chap. 13. 91 Of the agreement which the instruments of the voyce and speach haue with a payre of Organs what things are to be considered in placing of the lungs next the heart of the pipes and instruments of the voyce Chap. 14. 96 Of the tongue and of the nature and office thereof of the excellency profite of speach which is the art of the tongue what is to bee considered touching the situation thereof in the head and neare the braine Chap. 15. 103 Of the office of the tongue in tasting and in preparing meat for the nourishment of the body of the teeth and of their nature and office of the conduite or pipe that receiueth and swalloweth downe meates Chap. 16. The third dayes worke 108 OF the sence of tast giuen to the palal what tastes are good to nourish the body of the diuersitie of them of hunger and thirst and of their causes Chap. 17. 113 Of helps and creatures meete for the preseruation and nourishment of the body how God prepareth them to serue for that purpose of their vse Chap. 18. 119 Of the nose and of the sence of smelling and of their profit and vse of the composition matter and forme of the nose Chap. 19. 124 Of the vse briefly of all the outward sences of mans body namely in purging the superfluities and ordures of his nose of the diuersity that is in mens faces and of the image of the minde and heart in them Chap. 20. 130 Of the nature faculties and powers of mans soule of the knowledge which we may haue in this life and how excellent necessary it is into what kinds the life and soule are diuided Chap. 21. 136 Of the two natures of which man is compounded how the body is the lodge and instrument of the soule how the soule may be letted from doing her proper actions by the body and be separated from it and yet remaine in her perfection Chap. 22. 142 Of the braine and of the nature therof of the sundry kinds of knowledge that are in man of the similitude that is betweene the actions and workes of the naturall vertues of the soule and of the internall senses Chap. 23. 147 Of the composition of the braine with the members and parts thereof of their offices and that knowledge which ought to content vs touching the principall cause of the vertues and wonderfull powers of the soule Chap. 24. The fourth dayes worke 148 OF the seate of voluntary motion and sense of the office and nature of the common sense of imagination and of fantasie how light and dangerous fantasie is of the power which both good and bad spirits haue to mooue it Chap. 25. 158 Of reason and memorie and of their seate nature office of the agreement which all the senses both external and internall haue one with another and of their vertues Chap. 26. 164 That the internall senses are so distinguished that some of them may bee troubled and hindered and the rest bee safe and whole according as their places and instruments assigned vnto them in the body are sound or perished and of those that are possessed with deuils Chap. 27. 170 Of the reasonable soule and life and of vertue of the vnderstanding and will that are in the soule and of their dignity and excellency Chap. 28. 176 Of the variety and contrarietie that is found in the opinions deliberations counsayles discourses and iugdements of men with the cause thereof and of the good order and ende of all discourses Chap. 29. 182 Of iudgement and of his office after the discourse of reason and how beliefe opinion or doubting followe it of the difference that is betweene them Chap. 30. 187 Of the meanes whereby a man may haue certaine knowledge of those things which hee ought to beleeue and to take for true of the naturall and supernatural light that is in man and how they beare witnesse of the image of God in him Chap. 31. 192 How the vertues and powers of the soule shew themselues by litle and litle and by degrees of contemplation and of the good that is in it of that true and diuine contemplation which wee looke for after this life Chap. 32. The fift dayes worke 198 OF the appetites that are in all liuing creatures and namely in man and of their kinds and particularly of the naturall and sensitiue appetite Chap. 33. 203 Of will and of the diuers significations and vses of these words Reason and Will of the actions freedome and nature thereof of the power which reason may haue ouer her Chap. 34. 208 Of those good things which both men only guided by the light of nature are able to propound to themselues and to follow and they also that are guided by the spirit of God of the power and liberty of the will in her actions both externall and internall Chap. 35. 214 Of the distinction that ought to bee betweene the vnderstanding knowledge and the will and affections in the soule and betweene the scates and instruments which they haue in the body of the agreement that is betweene the heart and the braine Chap. 36. 219 Of the
ribbes For seeing the members of mans breathing are closed within needefull it is that they should not onely bee defended and armed with bones for their garde and preseruation but also that these bones should bee so placed that they might inlarge and restraine themselues open and close againe in such wise that the breathing and members thereof be not hindered in their motions Therefore they are all by nature lesse harde then the other besides they are many to the end there might be spaces betwixt them not only for the inlarging restraining of the breast but also that the muscles might bee placed betweene the ribbes And this is one cause why it was needfull that the backebone should be framed as it is namely that it might bee moe commodious for respiration And because the stomacke also standeth in neede of inlargement and restraint according to the quantity of the meate which it receaueth and according as it is lift vp and pressed downe thereby therefore it was requisite that it should haue the like helpe But forasmuch as it might soone bee hurt by reason of the hardnesse of the ribbes if they were driuen and forced against it God hath so disposed those ribbes wherewith he hath defended the stomacke that they are neyther so long nor so hard as the rest For they are of a softer kind of bone drawing neerer to the nature of gristles then the other and the more they descend downward the shorter they are Therefore the lower part of the ribs are commonly called the false ribbes or bastard ribbes which on eche side are fiue in number the other seuen ending at the breast-bone to the end they may defend and garde the heart lungs which are vitall parts Hereupon when any hath bene wounded to death it is often said in the holy scriptures that he was stricken vnder the fift ribbe because no blow pierceth those partes but it hurteth some one of the vitall members which cannot be wounded but that death followeth therevpon We see then how the prouidence of God did well forcsee whatsoeuer was requisite in this worke of mans body and hath prouided thereafter as need required as we may easily iudge by that which wee haue heard of the bones onely which parts are most earthie and massy and are voyde of all sence Wherefore we may well conceaue how excellently this wisedome hath wrought in the other partes and members that are more noble But we may iudge a great deale better of all this if we consider that our treatise of the bones onely is but very litle in comparison of that which might be spoken if a man would vtter it as Phisicions doe and distinguish properly of all the kindes of bones and of their vses Nowe to ende the outwarde composition of the body touching the bones we must consider of the share bone and of the bones of the head of the marow that is within the bones and of the vse of the necke Last of all wee will clothe with flesh this dry Anatomy that afterward we may come to those parts of our building that are most noble and excellent Therfore it belongeth to thee AMANA to intreat of this subiect Of the share bone and marrow of the bones of the bones in the head and of the flesh of the muscles and of their office Chap. 6. AMANA Nothing maketh the worke of God in the composition of mans bodie more woonderfull then the beautie of his shape and the exquisite arte vsed in the worke wherin a man cannot change so much as a naile or an eyelidde which is but haire but that some imperfection must be acknowledged therein and some discommoditie following thereupon will cause it to be perceiued For this cause the kingly Prophet considering his creation speaketh as one rauished with admiration I will sayeth hee prayse thee for I am fearefully and wonderfully mad marueilous are thy woorkes and my soule knoweth it well Hee could not in all that Psalme maruaile sufficiently at so excellent a woorke of God Therefore he vsed a word which signifieth as much in the Hebrewe tongue as if in stead of our speech thou hast framed or fashioned me hee should haue saide I haue benewouen or wrought in tissue and interlaced and fashioned artificially as it were in broadery woorke And truely no image or picture howe well soeuer it bee painted and purtrayted is to be compared with the forme and figure of mans bodie neyther is there any woorke of tapistrie so well wrought and imbrodered or that hath such varietie of exquisite arte and such diuersitie of figures as that hath And from what paterns doe Painters and Ingrauers take the fashion and forme of those Images and pictures which they would drawe foorth but from this What is a piece of tapistry or imbrodered woorke in comparison of a mans bodie which is as it were an image of the whole world and wherein a man may finde almost the varietie and draughts of all things contained in the whole frame of the world This will euidently appeare vnto vs in the sequele of our speeches touching the compounded parts of the body Therefore to finish the externall composition of this humane building concerning the bones we will first note that God in creating the bellie hath not compassed it about with bones as he hath done the other parts of the body and that chiefly for two causes First it is most meet it should be so by reason of the meat it receiueth Secondly for the benefite of women that beare children But to the end it might be vpholden together with that burden it beareth God hath giuen vnto it the Share bone for a foundation which also standeth insteed of a bulwarke for the bowels And because a man cannot alwayes stande vpright but must oftentimes sitte downe not onely to rest himselfe but also to dispatch many works which he hath to doe therefore he hath the buttocke bones and the flesh wherewith they are couered which are vnto him in stead of a stoole and a cushion to sitte at his ease And forasmuch as the bones are to be nourished they haue for their familiar foode the marrow which by nature is moist soft fat and sweete Therefore it hath neyther sinew nor sence but is within the bones as the sappe of trees is in the middest of their stockes and braunches For this cause Iob speaking of the prosperitie of the wicked saieth His breasts are full of milke and his bones runne full of marrowe But this is strange that seeing it is made of the thickest of the blood as it were a superfluitie of the meate how it can be ingendred within the bones and draw nourishment from the veines as other parts of the body do But God knew well howe to prouide for that and to make way for nourishment through the hardnes of the bones which are not all alike full of marrowe For as some of them are more drie or
moyster more hard or softer then others so they haue more or lesse marrowe and some haue none at all because they neede it not Now this marrow whereof we speake nowe differeth from that in the chine-bone which the Arabians call Nucha and is of the nature of the substance of the braine from whence it proceedeth as a riuer from his fountaine for the generation of sinewes to which ende the other marrow is not appoynted of God but onely for the nourishment and preseruation of the bones Seeing then we are come to the braine we must consider with what bones God hath inclosed it on euery side for the defence therof how many in all there are in the head both before and behind on the right side and on the left aboue and beneath of what forme breadth length and hardnes and how they are ioyned one with another by seames and bands and that not without great reason and consideration of the Workmaster which made such an excellent peece of worke For first there are commonly sixe bones which compasse the braine on eche side besides that which is called the Wedge-like bone which is vnder the pallat of the mouth and vnto which all the rest are fastened And because there are many vessels and members in the braine and head God hath made the head of a round figure reaching somewhat in length and bulking out somewhat more both before behinde Now forasmuch as vapours fumes and smokie excrements mount vpward therefore he hath created the head and those bones of the head that are highest not so solide and thicke as the rest to the end the vapours and fumes should not continue inclosed within the braine but might euaporate and so disburthen the brayne otherwise it would be very ill at ease and subiect to many diseases Therefore all of them together are so made one bone that yet they are not all of one and the same piece but ioyned together not by ligaments as many sundrie and seuerall bones are but by such a proper and apt coniunction that there appeareth betweene them as it were a seame made after the manner of a Sawe or Combe as if they were verie finely sewed together And because the bones behinde coulde not haue that helpe of the handes for their defence which the bones before may haue God hath created them more harde and stronger Besides they all are to the brayne and to euery part thereof in stead of an helmet and murrion to defende it on euery side Thus you see the composition of the head touching the bones thereof which is so ioyned to the body by the backebone that nothing but the neck which is the vpper ende of the chine is betweene them For it was necessarily to haue motion both aboue and beneath before and behinde and on both sides which could not haue beene if it had beene fastened to the shoulders without any space betweene which is necessarie also both for breathing for voyce and for manie other purposes that may bee noted heereafter And albeit the necke serued for nothing else but for voyce yet is it so necessarie that without it a man coulde haue no voyce nor any other creature to which it is giuen as appeareth in those that haue no necke For all beastes that want the necke want also the voyce as wee may see both in fishes and in those beastes which the Latins call Insecta animalia the reason is because they haue no necke whereby to ioyne their head with the rest of their bodie but onely as it were a litle threede which holdeth both the one and the other close together Nowe that wee are come to the toppe of the building of mans bodie and haue set him vpright as it were a dryed Anatomie we must come next to the couering of the bones sinewes and other partes mentioned by vs to the ende that after wee haue finished the description of the outwarde partes wee may speake also of those that are within The flesh then is the first garment wherewith the bones are couered and it is properly called by that name which is giuen to that part whereof the Muscles are compounded For some vnder the name of Flesh comprehend the Kernels and the fatte because of the agreement which these partes haue one with another and by reason of their vse For as for the flesh it hath this in common with the Kernels and fatte that it is soft and tender but heerein it differeth from that matter whereof Kernels are made in that the matter of Kernels is more Sponge-like Wee learned before that Flesh is a substance of blood and howe it is made thereof Concerning the Muscles wee vse to call by that name the proper instrument that mooueth voluntarily all the members of the bodie Therefore it is compounded and made of threedes proceeding from the sinewes and of ligaments compassed about with a great deale of flesh insomuch that when the Muscles are taken away from the bodie there remayneth almost nothing but bare bones Their proper place is in all places of the bodie where there are ioyntes and where motion is required For without them the bodie cannot haue that voluntarie motion whereof I spake euen nowe and which is so called because thereby a man may mooue and remooue his members from one place to another as he thinketh good and as hee shall iudge it needefull for himselfe Wherefore we must knowe that the brayne which is the seate of the animall partes and the originall of the all the sinewes and of all motions and sences giuen to the bodie by them is in respect of the whole bodie like to a Waggonner that guydeth his Waggon and the Muscles are like to the bittes and brydles of horses to cause them to retyre or set forwarde as the Waggonner pleaseth eyther to draw them backewarde or to driue them forwarde to pull in or to let loose the bridle The sinewes are as it were the reynes and leathers fastened to the bridles to holde them in or to let them loose and to turne them both on the right hande and on the lefte then those members of the bodie which moue it from one place to another are as it were the horses that are ledde and guided by this meanes and the rest of the bodie is like to the Charet and the burden which it caryeth And for this cause the Muscles are compounded of ligaments sinewes and flesh For as the ligaments serue to knit them together and the sinewes minister sence and motion so the fleshe serueth to the benefite of those litle strings that proceede from the ligaments and sinewes first to nourish them then to holde them vp fostly as if they leaned vpon little cushions and pillowes and lastly to keepe them aswell against the vehemencie of internall heate as against the heate colde and hardnesse that comes from without Likewise the flesh perfourmeth all these thinges vnto the rest of the
the office of the eyes to the end they may see all things better and comprehend all sorts of shapes better then if they were flat or hollow or square or of some other fashion besides round as a man may iudge by the diuersitie of looking-glasses and of their figures and makings according to the variety of which they represent diuersly those things whose images they receiue Now because man as also all other creatures goe forward and not backward or sidewise therefore God hath not placed the eyes either in the hinder part of the head or on any side thereof but before And although the eyes be moueable and made to turne on euery side yet they neuer turne cleane backward but onely sidewise so farre as they can see and behold well For they haue nothing to looke vpon within the head but only without Therfore they haue this aduantage besides that being set in that place which is assigned vnto them in the head they may turne from one part to another and see not onely on the right hand and on the left but also behinde by that motion which the head hath from his sinewes by meanes of the necke which motion the head should not haue if it were seated vpon the shoulders without a necke and this is another commoditie of the necke whereof we spake not before Nowe before wee goe any further in the discourse of those partes that are about the eyes for their defence preseruation it shal be good for vs to consider here of the goodly painting and varietie of colours that are in them For first wee haue a white colour which couereth the greatest part of the eye next that goodly smal circle which is round about the eye then the apple of the eye which the Hebrews call the daughter of the eye being in the midst of it as it were a little glasse where in a man may alwayes see some image as it were in a glasse when one looketh into it This little circle is called by some a Crowne and by others a Rainebow because of the diuersitie of colours that are seene in it which are not all alike in all men For some haue this circle more black others more gray others more yealow or more redde Moreouer besides the sinewes of those muscles that are giuen to the eyes to moue them euery way eche of them hath one proper vnto it selfe wherby the life and vertue of seeing is communicated vnto it from the braine by meanes of the soule that giueth life to all the bodie Therefore these sinewes differ from all the rest in that they are not solide but hollow within like to little water pipes to carry vnto the eyes the spirites of sight which are as it were a little flame of light whereby they receiue from the brayne life and vertue of seeing Next we are to consider how God hath placed them neere the nose to the end they may purge also by that on eche side aswell as the other humours of the braine Therefore there are kernels hard by them in the head which serue both to moysten and to water them according as they haue neede by reason of their burning nature and perpetuall motion and also to retaine and soke in humours least they should descend and fall downe vpon them too fast and so hurt them Besides this commoditie the nose in his place is vnto both the eyes in steade of bulwarks and so also are the bones which close them in on euery side and the balles of the cheekes which are higher then the holes of the eyne that they also might serue to defend them Moreouer God hath further armed them with eyeliddes which serue them both for ornament and are also in stead of gates vnto them hauing muscles to open and to shut them eyther wholly or in part as neede shall require both for sight for sleeping and waking and for defence And besides the eyebrowes wherwith God hath couered them aboue the liddes there are little haires growing at their brimmes which God hath not giuen in vaine For first they serue to direct the beames of the sight that they may see more directly next they serue for defence against litle flyes against 〈◊〉 mo●tes and other small things that might enter in and trouble them Moreouer they serue for ornament as it were some pretie border round about them And because the haires of the eyeliddes haue an other office then those of the eyebrowes therefore they are otherwise disposed for they are not so thicke nor mingled one within and about another as the hayres of the eyebrowes are but they are raunged and set all in ranke euen orderly one by another And as for the eyebrowes they doe not onely serue to set forth the eyes that their beautie may the better appeare but also to defend them against the raine against the sweate of the head and forehead and other things that might descend and fall vpon them if they had not this to stay thē And to this purpose we see the agreement which they haue with the nose on eche side and how the prouidence of God hath made them like to a halfe circle or a halfe moone or a little arche or els after the fashion of a little penthouse to the end that the sweat and raine might haue an easie course and descent on both sides and not runne into the eyes And because they should not hinder in steade of helping God hath created them of that nature that they growe not like the haire beard or nailes but continue alwayes at one stay What then wil those women say for themselues who take so great paines in twitching and plucking off the haire of their eyebrowes to the end they should not be so thick or great as nature hath made them For they thinke it greater beautie when they are shorter and thinner But in this as in all their paintings and prankings they doe not only lift vp themselues against nature as though they would worke her a spite but also be haue themselues as if of set purpose they meant to reproch God for creating thē as he did Now in speaking of the eyes let vs beware that we be not so blind as that we cannot see that thing by them which they teach vs or take no heede of that which they shew vnto vs. For the consideration of one of them alone or of one eyelid or browlidde onely ought to teach vs to open and to lift them on high that they may search out and contemplate him that created them and hath giuen them vnto vs euen to him who saith I that formed the eye shall I not see Therefore we ought to be afraide least our eyes be giuen vnto vs as Iudges to conuince vs of our ingratitude towards God their and our Creator and to condemne vs. For there are but too many miracles to be seene of his almightie power in their creation too many witnesses of
heart should vtter and declare another For before the tongue and mouth speake or speach be framed in them it must first be conceiued and bred in the heart and minde and then brought foorth and pronounced by the tongue and mouth Therefore Elihu saieth to Iob I pray thee heare my talke and hearken vnto all my wordes Beholde now I haue opened my mouth my tongue hath spoken in my mouth My wordes are in the vprightnesse of my heart and my lips shall speake pure knowledge We see heere how Elthu ioyneth the heart with the mouth the tongue the palat and the lippes all which are instruments of the speach as we heard before Therefore there must always be a good general agreement betweene al these things This good cōcord beginning in our selues according to euery mans particular place ought to stretch it self generally to al that we may al agree together as the spirite of God so often exhorteth vs thereunto in his holy word And therefore it calleth them men of double hearts and double tongues that are not vpright in heart nor true and certaine in word Our Lorde saieth that of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh and that a good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good thinges and an euill man out of an euill treasure bringeth foorth euill things For as the tree is knowen by his fruite so speach maketh manifest both the heart and mind of a man Therefore hee shall be a great deale better knowen by his speach then by the sight of his face For his face doth not so wel lay open to the eyes his heart mind maners as his speach discloseth thē to the eares as we may iudge by that which we learned to this effect in the former discourse Therefore before the bellows of the lungs blow to frame afterward voice speach in the tongue and mouth the draught must be first drawne and framed in the hart that the tongue mouth may represent and expresse it afterward otherwise they will speake to no purpose but onely giue testimony that there is litle wisedome vpright affection in the hart Hereof it is that Salomon sheweth oftentimes that a wise mans toong is not lightly set on worke without the direction and counsaile of the heart and mind whose seruant and messenger it ought to bee but a foole powreth forth al his mind at once For he vttereth al that commeth in his mouth and speaketh before he hath considered what hee ought to say so that his words are sooner spoken then thought vpon The heart of the wise guideth his mouth wisely and addeth doctrine to his lippes Faire words are as an hony combe sweetenesse to the soule and health to the bones The wise in heart shal be called prudent and the sweetenesse of the lippes shall increase doctrine A wise man concealeth knowledge but the heart of fooles publisheth foolishnesse A foole powreth out all his mind but a wise man keepeth it in till afterward There are many such like places in the Prouerbs which I coulde alleadge to this purpose And wee know what is commonly spoken when a man speaketh of a good affection and in trueth that hee speakes from his heart but if hee be knowen to be a lyar craftie and deceitfull we say that he speaketh not from his heart Which is as much as if one should say that the same thing is not in his heart which he hath in his mouth Although in truth when those speaches are thought vpon before such contrarieties are found as wel in the heart as in the tongue and mouth For if they were not first in that they would not be in the tongue which is the messenger of the heart This is the cause of that double heart which we said was in wicked close and disguised persons You see then what wee haue to note both in regard of the bellowes that blow the Organs of mans body also of the player that ought to blowe and direct them Now let vs speake of the instruments and pipes into which the winde breath of these bellows doth enter giueth motion conuenient sound to euery one of them They haue bene named all vnto vs before Wherefore we haue to consider of that pipe which is called the rough Artery or wind-pipe which is made like to a flute and in regard of the matter is of the nature of a gristle and of skin It was necessary that it should be of such matter because it is to moue when it receiueth in or giueth out the aire and to be inlarged or restrained as need requireth Needful therfore it was that it should be compounded of such skins as are easie to moue to open shut and which might serue for soft tender ligaments And bicause the voice cannot be framed if the aire whereof it is made be not beaten backe with some thing it was in like maner requisite that some gristles should be mingled therewith and linked together as it was needful for the eares to be made winding in that the aire might rebound the better and receiue the sounds as wee heard before For this cause it is called a rough artery as wel in respect of the matter whereof it is compounded as of the figure For it is made after the maner of small circles and rings placed in a ranke one by another throughout the whole length thereof like to the taile of a Creuis and that with such moderation that it is thicke slender and dri● according as neede requireth to make the voyce of a reasonable bignesse If it be too drie it malieth the voyce shrill and hard to bee pronounced as experience sheweth in burning feauers and in great droughts Againe the pipe thereof is larger beneath then aboue and so lesseneth vpward where neede is like to the pipe of a Bag-pipe to the end that the blast should neither be too slow and weake in ascending nor yet ouer hastie and ●odaine For if it be ●lowe and languishing it will turne to wind without any noise and sound and if it be hasty and sodaine it will breed sighes in stead of voyce as it falleth out to them that are diseased and weake whose breath is short and to old men who haue small vertue of respiration and much lesse of singing Therfore some expound that place of Ecclesiastes where it is said that all the daughters of singing shal be abased of the voyce of olde men and of the instruments which breede and pronounce it and of their vertue and strength although others will haue it to be vnderstoode of the eares But it may be referred to them both Now the principal instrument of the voice is in the head of the rough artery namely in that place which is commonly called the knot or ioynt of the necke or Adams morsel being fashioned likest to an Almaine flute I abstaine frō speaking more
7. What the word 〈◊〉 importeth in the ●●eation of the woman Genes 2. 22. The true ende and vse of knowing th● booke What the simple or similary parts of mans body are Of the bones of mans body Gods prouidence great in the creatiō of the bones A fit similitude Of the ligaments Of the gristles Of the sinews Of pannicles and ●ilaments Of the veine● Of the arteri● Of the flesh The bones most earthy of all the parts A double vse of Anatomy Esay 40. 6. Iob 14. 1 2. Foure principall parts of the body Of the midriffe Eccles. 12. 3. Psal. 6. 2. and 22. 14. isay 38. 13. Iob 21. 24. Esay 66. 14. Three parts of the legge Of the armes and handes The agreement and difference betweene the workes of God and the workes of man Psal 33. 9. rom 4 17. All handy workes ought to tend to common profite Of the Arte of Palmestrie Of the Palmestry of Christians The vse of the hand The properties of the nayles Of the three partes of the whole arme Three parts of the hand Of the backe-bone Eccles. 12. 6. Of the holy bone Of the marow of the chine Eccles. 12. Of the skinne of the braine called the golden Ewer Of the ribbes The keyes of the throate Of the workemanship of the ribbes and of other bones How many false ribbes there are 2. Sam. 2. 23. 3. 27. Psal 139. 14. Why the belly is not enuironed with bones Of the Share bone or tayl●bone Of the buttocke bones Of the marow Iob 21. 24. Nucha Of the bones of the head Of the necke and vse thereof Of the flesh Of the muscles What voluntary motion is A comparison betwixt the body and a chariot The differences of flesh Diuers vses of the flesh Two kindes of Kernels in the bodie The least part in man full of admiration and very profitable Of the pappes of their situation and vse The difference betweene the care of men and beasts ouer their litle ones A good lesson for children Of the forme of the pappes Psal. 8. 2. How children ●resed in their mothers belly How and whereof milke is made How the milke is wrought and whited Whereof womans milke is made How and where an infant receiueth breath and foode in the wombe A similitude The vses of fatte in the body Three skinnes of the body The first skinne hath no feeling no● blood Of membran●● and tunicles Of the haires Good lessons for the gray headed Eccles 12. 5. Prou. 20. 29. Leuit. 19 32. Of the beard Esay 15. 2. 2. Sam. 10. 4. Of womens haire 1. Cor. 11. 5 6. Vers. 1● 14 15 The schoole of Nature is the schoole of God Wherein true 〈◊〉 consisteth Of the beautie that is in the face A good instruction for euery one Fiue corporall senses Foure things required in bodily senses Of the sense of touching No body can live without some sense of touching Some members of the body absolutely nec●●●tie to life A prouerbe An other point of Gods 〈◊〉 The hands sometimes stand in st●ade of the tongue and cares The opinion of the Stoics and Academics In Phad in 〈◊〉 14. de ●rap●● Euang. c. ● Of the eyes and of their vse The eyes draw neerest to the nature of the soule Sight is our first mistresse O● spirituall eyes spirituall light 〈◊〉 the light 〈◊〉 1. Tim. 6. 16. The difference betwixt the sight of men and of beasts Of colours and of their nature varietie and vse All compound colours made of blacke and white mingled Nothing seene but by colour Of the matter and humours of the eyes Of the Christalline humour How the humor● are placed How Gods prouidence appeareth in the eyes Of the tunicles and skinnes of the eyes Fiue tunicles A testimonie of Gods prouidēce Of the forme of the eye Of the muscles of the eyes Of the visuall sinewes The vse of the kernels neere the eyes Of the cyclids of their haires The vse of the eyebrowes Against the pri●● of women Psal 94. 9. Of the proportiō betweene the heauens and the bead Eccles. 12. 3. The eyes drawe neerest to the nature of fire Psal. 123. 1. Matth. 6. 22. 23. The agreement betweene the eies of the soule and those of the body Iohn 9. 6. The situation of the cares Of their making Of their forme The cares of men and apes only are without mouing Of their vse Of the place of hearing Three small bones in the eares Of two skinnes within the eares What profite and pleasure is receiued by the eares Eccles. 12. 4. How doctrine is learned The benefite of Lectures Prou. 1. 5 6. How hearing is framed in the eares 1. Cor. 15. 33. Esay 6. 9 10. Three vses of the tongue The instruments of the voyce The vse of the wesel of the throte Fiue instruments requisite to lea●●e the voyce into speech Of the dignitie of speech Ecclus. 17. 5 6. 〈◊〉 sermon Two sortes of speech in man The degrees by which we come to ●●eech What voyce is Speach representeth all the partes of the soule Who is to be accompted eloquent Hebr. 1. 3. Of the image of the heauenly word in the speach of man There must be an harmony betwixt the heart and the tongue Of the nature of the lungs Why the heart and speach must agree together Iob 33. 1 2 3. Iam. 4. 11. psal 12. 2. Matt. 12. 34 35. luk 6. 45. Prouer. 6. 21 23 24. Prouer. 12. 13. Prouer. 29. 11. Of the pipes and instruments of the voyce Of the wind pipe From whence proceedeth the change of voice in sickenes Eccles 12. 4. The Anatomists call it La●inx How the voyce is made great or small A testimony of the prouidence of God Faire Organs within euery man The praise of eloquence The description of the tongue Of spittle and the profite thereof Our speach ought to be vpright The profit of speach Gene. 11. 7. Actes 2. 3 4. A miracle of letters The benefit of letters The difference betweene voyce and speech The vses of Grāmer Logicke and Rhetorike We cānot speake wisely without the knowledge of God and his worde Why the tongue is placed neere the braine 1. Cor. 14 2 14 15. The mistresse of the tongue Iames 3. 6. Why the tongue is so fashioned and fenced on euery side One member may se●ue for many offices Why the mouth is the fittest place for the tongue The officer of the tongue Of the mill of mans body Eccles. 12. 3 4. Of the kitchin of the body God ministreth food to all creatures Of teeth and of theirs diuers kindes The tongue like to a baker Of the Gullet or We●●●●d Of the Epiglt or litle tongue Good lessions for euery one What the palat is Iob 12. 11. 34. 3. Of the prouidēce of God in the varietie of tastes The sence of taste necessary for Physicions Another vse of the spittle How the senses agree with the elements Of heate and humiditie the preseruers of life A comparison betweene