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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	artery_n	blood_n	vein_n	5,874	5	10.2889	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46807	Annotations upon the five books immediately following the historicall part of the Old Testament (commonly called the five doctrinall or poeticall books) to wit, the book of Iob, the Psalms, the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon ... / by Arthur Jackson ...	Jackson, Arthur, 1593?-1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing J64; ESTC R207246	1,452,995	1,192

to a fountain from whence water is taken up by a pitcher or drawn up by a wheel a bucket a cord or a chaine to be powred into a cistern and so the drift of these words to be only this that as when these things are broken at a well there is no more drawing up water thereby so when the vitall parts in a man that should convey nourishment and life and sense and motion to all the body which is the cistern are broken and made uselesse there is no hope that life should any longer continue Yea and besides the most of Expositors doe more particularly apply the severall particulars here mentioned as 1. By the silver cord that is loosed may be meant the pith or marrow of the back-bone which comes from the braine in the back part of the head and so is drawn along as a cord quite thorough the back-bone to the very bottome of it only at the four and thirty joynts of the said bone it seemes to be tyed together with so many links or knots which because it is white or is included in a smooth bright skin like to silver is therefore called the silver cord yea and this may be extended also to the nerves which thorough the severall joynts of that bone doe shoote forth as the shaggy threds of this cord and spread themselves thorough the body and are the instruments of sense and motion and appear like so many white strings in the flesh And now because when this marrow of the back-bone together with the nerves the branches of it become lax and loose by cold humors from the braines men are usually taken with the dead palsey hence this expression seemes to be taken Or ever the silver cord be loosed 2. By the golden bowl broken may be meant the heart which because of the blood and spirits it containes may be compared to a golden bowl or rather the skull or brain-pan or that thin membrane or sinewy skin compassing the brain like a swadling-cloath or the inner rind of a tree which is usually called the Pia mater It is called a bowl because it is round and a golden bowl because it containes the brain which is such a precious part of mans body upon the safe-guarding whereof the life of man doth so much depend And because these the heart and the brain are the principall vitall parts in man therefore when men dye this golden bowl is then said to be broken 3. By the fountain here may be meant either the head which is the fountain of the animal spirits sense and motion or the heart which is the fountain of blood and vitall spirits And 4. By the pitcher at the fountain and the wheel at the cistern are meant those instrumentall parts which convey nourishment life sense and motion into the body which is the cistern as those milky veines in the Mesentery which after the digestion of meat in the stomack and the discharge of it from thence into the small guts doe draw into them the concocted chyle and convey it by a peculiar vessel called Ductus chyl● Thoracicus into the mass of blood which together with the blood is carried to the heart and 2. the arteries whereby the blood together with the vital spirits is discharged from the heart into all parts of the body to give life heat and nourishment to the whole and then the veines doe againe returne it to the heart and the arteries doe again returne it to every part of the body by a perpetuall circulation in regard whereof these instruments of life may the more fitly here be compared to a Wheel that is alwayes turning round and 3. the nerves or sinews by which from the brain where the vitall spirits brought by the arteries from the heart to the brain are digested and turned into animal spirits the animal spirits which give sense and motion are carried forth into all parts of the body And all these are said to be broken when they loose their drawing and distributing vertue and so blood and spirits and heate and sense and motion doe all faile in the body Some I know would have the pitcher broken at the fountain to be the bladder when the urine ceaseth to issue from thence according as in an orderly way it useth to doe and so likewise the wheel broken at the cistern to be the lungs which are as a wheel transmitting the aire in and out up and downe and may be said to be broken when they come to be taken off from their motion But the former application of these figurative expressions I conceive is most proper Vers 7. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it To wit That it may appear before Gods tribunal by him to be sentenced either to heaven or hell Or the meaning may be that the soul returns to God to live for ever with him in heaven for say some Expositors because Solomon is speaking here to the people of God therefore he speaks of the state of the soul after death no otherwise then as passing presently to heavenly glory However the drift of Solomon in mentioning this is to shew that therefore it behooves men whilst they live and are in health to provide for eternity because when once the soul and body are parted there remaines then nothing but judgement Vers 8. Vanity of vanities saith the Preacher all is vanity As if he had said And hereby as by all likewise that I have formerly said it appeares to be most unquestionably true which I said at first that all things under the Sun are exceeding vain yea vanity it selfe See the Note Chap. 1.2 Vers 9. And moreover because the Preacher was wise c. The drift of these words is to encourage men very attentively to reade and regard and give credit to this booke to the due consideration of the Author the Penman of it 1. Because he was a man upon whom God had conferred a high degree of wisdome above other men see 1 King 4.29 30 31. and withall when he wrote this book a true penitent and reconciled to the Church both which are comprehended in these words because the Preacher was wise see the Note Chap. 1.1 2ly Because he still taught the people knowledge that is he was one that was still taking every opportunity to inform his people in the knowledge of things thereby approving himselfe both truly wise and truly penitent and the more himselfe increased in wisdome the readier he was to teach others for so the words may be read as our Bibles have it in the Margin And the more wise the Preacher was he still taught the people knowledge 3. Because he was very exact in marking well what he received from others and what he gathered from his own study and observations and in weighing and pondering well every thing that he wrote and did with much diligence use all meanes for the informing of himselfe