Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	blood_n	great_a	vein_n	4,207	5	10.0284	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13656	The mirror of diuine prouidence Containing a collection of Theodoret his arguments: declaring the prouidence of God to appeare notably both in the heauens and in the earth, and in all things therein contained: taken out of his workes De prouidentia.; De providentia. English. Selections	Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus.; I. C., fl. 1602.	1602 (1602)	STC 23939; ESTC S101993	23,638	96

vnto man to set forth the glorie of God and to giue thanks for the great benefits receiued at his hand it is an extreme wickednes to abuse pollute that noble instrumēt in breathing out blasphemous speeches against the Prouidence of God The Mouth and other instruments of speech THe Mouth which alone doth sufficiētly declare both the wisedome and great goodnes of God towards man may well be likened to the musicall Instrument which beeing made of brazen pipes blowne vp with bellowes or the breath of man and mooued with the fingers of him that playeth thereon doth giue a sweet and pleasant sound so in man the lungs are as it were the bellowes which beeing drawne together and opened againe by the meanes of certaine muscles doth sēd forth the breath throgh the windpipe whereby the couer of the throate being opened it is carried into the Mouth where Reason which is a speciall gift of God in man by the helpe of the tongue as with his hand dooth carrie that breath vnto the teeth which are as it were brazen pipes that it may runne vp and downe and learne to slide easily without combrance and least the tongue through his continuall motion should wax drie whereby the facilitie in his moouing should bee hindered God hath annexed vnto it a certain kernell running as it were a fountaine with continuall moysture Thus Reason which is in man carrying his purpose and by help of the tongue beating it against the teeth through the drawing together of the lips and an apt beating of the Ayre with the breath that is sent out of the mouth this articular voyce is framed and made Againe whereas the Heart being the fountaine of naturall heat from whence all the parts of the body drawe their warmth hath need of some cooling and refreshing the Lungs drawing impure and fresh ayre and sending it vnto the heart do receiue and take away the other which was ouer-boyled by reason of the heat of the Hart and expell it as superfluous and hurtfull and so that breath and ayre which is cast out as a thing superfluous and to no vse is by the Prouidēce of God turned to this notable vse to be the author and worker of our speech The Heart THe Heart beeing the most excellent part of mans body hauing as it were the gouernment of the whole committed vnto him by the Prouidence of God is so enclosed and defended with the brest as with a most strong bulwark that no outward force can lightly hurt it Secondly the Heart beeing in continuall motion for it is the fountaine of the Arteries the nether part vnder which the Lungs are placed is soft spungie full of Pores and Arteries but the vpper tip thereof God hath made more stiffe and hath couered it with a strong and tough coate of skinne Thirdly for that the Heart is nourished not onely with the vitall spirits but also with bloud God hath placed a great hollow veine going through the whole body whereby it doth drawe his nutriment from the Liuer as through a conduit pipe The meanes Instruments wherby the body is nourished The Belly THe Belly with the helpe of the stomacke doth draw the meate downe vnto it where first keeping it and drawing out the moysture altering and changing it afterwards when it is well sod and digested he doth seuer and distribute it sending the purer part thereof vnto the Liuer to be better strained and the rest being good for nothing hee doth cast out through the expulsiue parts The Liuer THen the Liuer when hee hath thus receiued the best and purest part of the meate not being contented with the former purging and cleansing doth begin a fresh strayning it through more narrow passages and so being better purged and seuered the drosse and slimie part thereof the Splene doth drawe vnto him for his nutriment and that which through ouer-much boyling is turned into a chollericke nature is sent vnto the gall or bladder wherein choller is contained and kept an other part thereof which being ouer-thin will serue for no nutriment the bladder appointed for vrine doth receiue it and cast it out as superfluous the rest being thus thoroughly purified is made like vnto bloud The great hollowe vaine called Vena caua WHen the Liuer hath thus turned it into bloud it is conueyed into a great hollowe veine from whence being caried by other small veines vnto euery part of the body it serueth for the nourishing of the whole body The Veines THe Veins wherin the bloud is carried to the nourishing of euery part of the body are made of a very fine and thin ryne of skinne the Pores whereof are couered as it were with a spungie matter for as bloud being grosse must haue the greater Pores to passe forth so again least it should runne out altogether at once and that it might feed and moysten the parts adioyning by litle and litle as necessitie requireth God hath couered thē with this spungie substance The Arteries THe Arteries for that the vitall spirit which is carried in them is so thinne that it will passe away through very small holes and can hardly bee kept in are not made of one but of two skinnes and those are very fast and thicke that it cannot breake forth Againe God hath compassed the Veines with Arteries that the bloud beeing stirred with the moouing of the warme spirite might runne the more easily whereas otherwise by standing still it would congeale and waxe stiffe And therefore in certaine places they are ioyned and knit together with very fine Pores that the bloud there-through may receiue a litle of the spirit the better to further his motion and the spirit on the other side beeing somewhat moystned with the humour of the bloud is preserued from being dried vp The stature of man MAn onely among all creatures is made to go straight vpright and vpon two feete onely whereas all other goe groueling The Legges THe Legs consist of the parts knit together with ioynts whereof one part is ioyned to the hippe an other to the knee and the third part to the ankle with very strong sinewes and muscles for the readie moouing of them Againe those sinewes and bands are neither too loose nor too straight for being ouer-straight as the parts could hardly or not at all be mooued So if they were ouer loose they would not tarry but fall out of ioynt And thus through the great benefit of Gods Prouidence man is able to goe run stand and sit when he lift The Buttockes FOr that it would be hard to sit vpon that hard bone and naked ioynt God hath giuen man Buttockes as it were a pillowe or quishion to sit vpon by the meanes whereof hee is able to sit on the bare ground yea vpon an hard stone without any griefe The Backe bone THe Back bone taking his beginning at Os sacrum dooth runne vp into the necke and is as it were a strong piller sustaining and holding vp the