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	liver_n	vein_n	3,258	5	9.8983	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57666	The new planet no planet, or, The earth no wandring star, except in the wandring heads of Galileans here out of the principles of divinity, philosophy, astronomy, reason, and sense, the earth's immobility is asserted : the true sense of Scripture in this point, cleared : the fathers and philosophers vindicated : divers theologicall and philosophicall points handled, and Copernicus his opinion, as erroneous, ridiculous, and impious, fully refuted / by Alexander Rosse ; in answer to a discourse, that the earth may be a planet.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1646 (1646)	Wing R1970; ESTC R3474	118,883	127

one in essence for the will is nothing else but the understanding dilated extended inlarged to the desire and fruition of that object which it apprehends 2. The Apostle saith That we beleeve with the heart except you will have this also to be spoken according to opinion and not according to truth but without understanding we cannot beleeve For to beleeve saith Thomas is the act of understanding moved by the will to assent 3. The heart is the originall subject of sense and motion and consequently of understanding which cannot be in us without sense and motion 4. Understanding is in the soule the soule in the spirits the spirits in the blond and the bloud is originally in the heart which though it be in the liver as in a cisterne and in the veines as conduit-pipes yet it is in the heart as in the fountaine 5. The animall spirits in the braine in which they say the understanding is are both generated of and preserved by the vitall spirits of the heart being conveyed thither by certaine arteries small strings or fibrae 6. In a sudden feare which is the passion of the heart the understanding is much darkened and disturbed 7. Hippocrates every way a better man then Galen affirmes this truth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mens minde or understanding is in the left ventricle of the heart That Booke De morbo sacro which goeth under the name of Hippocrates which contradicteth this truth is justly affirmed by Galen to be none of his 8. Though I should yeeld to the Galenists that the understanding is in the braine yet I will yeeld that it is there onely instrumentally and secondarily and in respect of its act or exercise for originally principally and in respect of its faculty it is in the heart onely neither would there be any exercise of understanding in the braine if it were not from the influence which it receiveth from the heart Neither is this strange that the act should be in one part and the faculty in another for the faculty of seeing is in the brain and yet the act of seeing is in the eye so that though the eye were lost yet the faculty would remaine still in the braine As for any thing that the Galenists can say against this it is of no moment for although the braine be hurt wounded or inflamed yet the faculty of understanding is not lost though the act or exercise be hindered Besides there is a phrensie or alienation of the minde upon a hurt or inflamation of the Diaphragma as well as of the braine therefore the ancient Physicians called this muscule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because it being hurt the minde was hurt the remedies applied to the head by which the braine is cured doe not argue that the understanding is there but that there it doth exercise it selfe and yet remedies are applied sometimes to those parts where the disease is not but in some other place but this I leave to Physicians I remember that Philo will have the understanding which he compares to a King to be in the head because there be all the senses as the Kings guard but he is deceived for the guard may be in the same house with the King but not in his bed-chamber The guard or outward senses are in the outward court the inward senses are in the privy chamber but the King himselfe is in the heart as in his bed-chamber If any reply that the head is uppermost and therefore the worthiest part of the body and fittest for the King to be there I answer no for the garret or upper part of the house is for the servants to lodge in the King ought to be in the most inward and safest part of his palace It is evident then by what we have said that the holy Ghost by placing the understanding in the heart did speake according to truth and not to common opinion and therefore to write that the spirit of truth who leadeth us into all truth speaketh rather according to opinion then truth is a note blacker then your inke unfit to fall from the pen of a Christian. For even allegories tropes figures and parables are truths but I impute this slip rather to negligence in you then malice 8. The vipers egges will not help you Ova aspidum ruperunt they have broken the vipers egges as you translate it but 1. The viper hath no egges for whereas other Serpents lay egges the viper excludeth young vipers and not egges therefore called vipera quasi vivipara Vipers egges are such chimera's as your world in the Moone 2. The aspis and the viper are of different kinds to say that aspis is a viper is as true as if you did say a cat is a pig or a crow is a goose Read AElian Pliny and others who have written the stories of these creatures and Physicians who make treakle of vipers not of aspes if you will not beleeve me It was a viper not an aspe that leaped upon Saint Pauls hand they were aspes not vipers that Cleopatra applied to her breasts 3. This Scripture doth not allude to that common fabulous story of the viper as you say breaking his passage through the females bowels but it compares the counsels and plots of wicked men to the egs of the aspes which being white and faire to the eye are venomous within and cannot be broken without the indangering and poysoning of him that breakes them so wicked mens smooth counsels and plots howsoever specious in their pretences are notwithstanding venemous and deadly in their intentions and execution 4. Though I should grant you that vipers have egges yet it is one thing for men to breake vipers egges and another thing for young vipers to breake through the bowels of the female the Scripture speaketh of the former breaking and not of the latter neither hath it any relation at all in this place to that story of the vipers breaking through the belly of the female 5. Nor is this story so fabulous as you take it having the patrocinie of so many great and grave Authors for it namely Aristotle Theophrastus Herodotus AElian Plutarch Horapollus Pliny Saint Basil Saint Hierome Isiodor and divers others Scaliger indeed writes that he saw a viper bring forth her young ones without hurt and perhaps Angelus Brodaeus and some others have seen the like but what though we have seen some unhurt it is a hard skirmish where none scapes To inferre that no vipers are killed by their young ones because some are not is as much as if you would say no women are sicke or pained in their childe-birth because some are not Thus you see that you can make no treakle or antidote of your viper for the strengthening of your opinion the very names which are given by the Greekes and Latines to this creature shew that this is no fiction for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 having much paine in