Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	brain_n	spirit_n	vital_a	2,340	5	11.1626	5	false

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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

you had spake within compasse If one should say that a little wheele and a great mill-stone may be moved according to the proportion of their bodies so likewise may the hill Athos or Atlas be turned about he would be counted ridiculous and yet there is a farre greater proportion between a mill-stone and those hills then between an Eagle and the Earth 7. Though the magnitude of the earth make it incapable of so swift a motion yet this doth not make the heaven much more incapable as you say For it is the magnitude joyned with the heavinesse of the earth that makes it incapable of such a motion but the heavens are not heavy though great A cloud which may be a mile or two about hath a greater magnitude then a pebble small stone and yet you see with what facility the cloud is carried whereas the stone is not moved though it were high in the air but with the motion of descent 8. As for the swiftnesse of the earth's course which exceeds not you say the celerity of clouds driven by a tempestuous winde of a cannon bullet which in a minute flies foure miles c. These I say are the phansies of a crasie braine in a dream you are the onely darling and favourite of Nature who both knowes the Earth's motion and how much it can runne in a minute It seemes this incredible swiftnesse of the earth hath made your head giddy that you know not what you write and how can it be otherwise for if you be carried 240. miles in an houre and your pen whilst it is forming almost every letter foure miles in a minute your braines flie as fast as the bullet out of the cannon If this be true I doe not think that either you know what you write or where you are nay you could not write at all nor were it possible for you to live or for your lungs and heart to move or draw breath Your subsequent discourse of the Earths magneticall property is grounded as indeed all your Book upon ridiculous suppositions and on such grounds do you raise the structure of your Babel or bables 1. You suppose that the lower parts of the Earth do not consist of such a soft fructifying soyl as in the surface because there is no use for it But what if I should suppose the contrary that it doth consist of a fructifying soyle and that there be people there aswell as in your Moone I doubt not but I could prove it with as good reasons as you do your world in the Moon 2. You suppose it consists of a hard rock is substance because these lower parts are pressed close together by the weight of the heavy bodies above them What if I should suppose the contrary that the softest ground is in the lowest parts as being farthest from the Sun which hardneth the earth therefore they that dig deep into to the bowells of the earth finde it still softer and softer the deeper they goe And wee know that many fruits and heavy bodies are hard and stonie without but soft within the earth then is not like a cheese that by pressing groweth hard 3. You suppose that this rockie substance is a load-stone But what if I should suppose it to be a diamond which is more likely both because it is the more precious stone and Nature commonly layeth up the most precious things within her most inward parts and because it is harder for according to your doctrine the pressing close of heavy bodies is the cause of hardnesse 4. It 's probable you say that this rockie substance is a load-stone because the earth and load-stone agree in so many properties What if I should say that they disagree in many more properties and that therefore this cannot be the load-stone But what an Argument is this the earth and loadstone agree in many properties therefore the lower part of the earth consists of load-stones as if you would say A man and an horse agree in many properties therefore the lower part of a man consists or is made up of a horse or thus The elementary and our culinary fire agree in many properties therefore the inmost or lower part of the one consists of the other 5. You say well that what hath all the properties of the load-stone must needs be of that nature but because you are not well read in the Master of syllogismes you inferre that the inward parts of the earth consist of a magneticall substance which is the conclusion without an assumption which should have been this but the lower parts of the earth have all the properties of the load-stone which wee deny Now let us heare how you prove it The difference you say of declination and variation in the mariners needle cannot proceed from it selfe being the same every where nor from the heavens for then the variation would not be still alike in the same place but divers according to the severall parts of heaven which at severall times happen to be over it therefore it proceeds from the earth which being endowed with magneticall affections diversly disposeth the motions of the needle I answer the Earth may have a disponent vertue to alter the needle and yet not be a load-stone so the heavens are the causes of generation corruption alterations c. in the world and yet they are not capable of these qualities the Moon causeth the sea to ebbe and flow doth shee therefore partake of the like affections or hath shee the properties of the sea The load-stone disposeth the motions of the yron will you therefore inferre that the load-stone hath the properties of yron 2. If the variation as you say of the needle be divers according to the severall parts of heaven passing over it it must follow that the needle must vary every minute and scruple of an houre even here where we live seeing every scruple or minute divers parts of the heaven are still passing over it 3. If the Inclination or motion of the needle towards the North is caused by the heaven not by the earth why should not the variation and declination of it be caused by the heaven likewise You are driven to hard shifts when you are forced to flie to similitudes for want of proofs to strengthen your weak and absurd assertions for similitudes may illustrate they cannot prove 2. Because you cannot shew any similitude of the earth's motion with such things as you are acquainted you are forced to borrow similitudes from those things with which you are not acquainted rather then you will seeme to say nothing You flie beyond the Moon Saturne and Iupiter must serve you at a dead life but I know not upon what acquaintance This is your conceit A bullet or any part of the earth being severed from the whole observes no lesse the same motions then if they were united to the whole whereas Jupiter Saturne c. doe constantly and regularly move on in their courses hanging in the