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<P>Numb. 1.</P>
<P>AN ESSAY Concerning NUTRITION IN ANIMALS.</P>
<P>Proving it Analogical to that of PLANTS.</P>
<P>And Di&s;covering the like Structure and U&s;e of the Organs to be alike in both.</P>
<P>With many OBSERVATIONS to|wards the Practi&s;e of Phy&s;ick.</P>
<P>Together with A Short DISCOURSE upon the Nature of the Soul in Plants, Animals, and Man.</P>
<P>Offered to Philo&s;ophers and Phy&s;icians, in Order t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> clear Difficulties, in the OEconomy of Animal Bo|dies, and Applications of Remedies.</P>
<P>By <HI>PHILIP GUIDE,</HI> M. D. <HI>&amp; Col.</HI> M. L. L.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for the Author, and are to be Sold by <HI>H. Rhodes,</HI> at the <HI>Star,</HI> the Corner of <HI>Bride-Lane,</HI> in <HI>Fleet Street,</HI> 1699.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="preface">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>THE PREFACE.</HEAD>
<P>WE Live in an Age, hap|py for the Freedom that Men u&s;e upon Philo&s;ophical Matter; Truth only is pretended to by every Party, no Mens Authority is valued at all: Truth is the be&s;t Ma&s;ter without Di&s;pute, but not an ea&s;ie one to be met with; in the mean time, it de&s;erves well enough our Application: To this intent, being bu&s;ie to look into the Principle, which Philo&s;ophers and Phy&s;icians propo&s;e, to be in u&s;e in the Practice of Phy|&s;ick, I have been un&s;atisfied, and many times a&s;hamed, to &s;ee &s;o great and frequent Con|tradictions
<PB REF="3">among us. I did what I could all along, to re|concile Opinions.</P>
<P>The be&s;t way, methinks, to pretend to it, is to pitch upon Matter of Fact, and to advance gradually, from one Truth to another. In this Method the Structure of a Plant, being Examined by O|cular In&s;pections, compared with the Structure of our own Body, and their Parity and Di&s;parity ob&s;erved, might give the &s;ure&s;t Grounds to|wards truly knowing, and readily Curing Di&s;tempers.</P>
<P>I am, like other Phy&s;icians, in the Opinion, That Final Cau&s;es mu&s;t be of &s;ome Con|&s;ideration; and, by the leave of the Modern Philo&s;ophers, I will &s;ay, That Phy&s;icians,
<PB REF="3">which &s;pend the be&s;t part of their Lives in Inquiry, about the Structure of Man's Body, are the be&s;t Judges in this Matter: Such Knowledge brings Man to their duty, to be grateful to God, and to Wor&s;hip Him; and this <HI>&V;&s;us Partium</HI> is mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary to Men which intend to dive in|to the mo&s;t difficult Ca&s;es, and Variety of Di&s;ea&s;es.</P>
<P>The u&s;e of the Arteries hath hitherto been thought to carry Food and Nouri&s;hment to the whole, which in the&s;e Trea|ti&s;es, I make bold to reject as erroneous: We intend to &s;ay &s;omething about the Dige&s;ti|ons in the Stomach, after the manner of a Machine, called Dige&s;ter, the Ways of Secreti|on, the Fal&s;hood of many Phy&s;i|cian's
<PB REF="4">Hypothe&s;is, the danger to Practi&s;e Phy&s;ick keeping clo&s;e to their direction; &s;ome good, and great many more bad Ef|fects, of the pretended Uni|ver&s;al Medicine.</P>
<P>I will enquire into the Na|ture of Fevers, and &s;hew, that their Ri&s;ing is rather from the Error of a Change in the Solid Part of the Machine, than from the Alteration of the Blood, or other Juices. I proceed to clear, how the Je&s;uit's Bark does the work, in the Cure of <HI>Agues,</HI> upon the propo&s;ed Notion: The&s;e, and other Di&s;coveries of the like Nature, will, I hope, be U&s;eful to promote, both the Theoretical, and Practical part of Phy&s;ick.</P>
<TRAILER>I intend to Continue this Di&s;cour&s;e, as my Time will permit.</TRAILER>
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<PB N="1" REF="4">
<HEAD>AN ESSAY Concerning Nutrition <HI>in</HI> ANIMALS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. I. <HI>What may be the Mechani&s;m in the Begin|ning, and in the Progre&s;s of a Lively and quick Nature, common both to Plants and to Animals; the Parity of their Organi|cal Particles, towards the Di&s;charge of &s;ome Functions.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WE commonly di&s;tingui&s;h in Ani|mals different Things: Fir&s;t, They are of a lively and a quick Nature; they are both Nouri&s;hed, Growing, and able to produce Seeds, and tho&s;e things they have in common
<PB N="2" REF="5">with Plants: The Principle, or the Power to perform the &s;aid Actions, is call'd a Faculty.</P>
<P>In an Animal, be&s;ides the&s;e three Facul|ties, we have a local Motion and Sen&s;ation, which &s;uppo&s;e, &s;ome other kind of Facul|ty or Power: Furthermore, to have a De|liberation, and a Will to act, according to &s;ome Rules and Laws of Ju&s;tice and Equi|ty, &s;ettled for our own Safety, and for the Safety of others; it is a thing common nei|ther to Plant, nor Animal, but it belongs to Man alone.</P>
<P>No doubt, the&s;e afore&s;aid Faculties de|pend upon a certain Figure, certain Order, and certain Po&s;ition of their Particles, which joined together with a Liquid, compo&s;e a &s;ingle Body, very fit for &s;ome intended Action, by the Inventer of it; and this is called a Mechani&s;m, and Men are a kind of Machine at this rate.</P>
<P>According to this Notion, the Body of a Man, which is u&s;ed to perform &s;ome of the&s;e Actions, common to Plants, and to the generality of Animals, hath probably &s;ome Organical Particles, and bigger Parts, very like the Particles and Part of the&s;e &s;aid Creatures.</P>
<PB N="3" REF="5">
<P> From the Likene&s;s of them: If there is any, without any danger of Prevention, we may judge they are intended towards the Performance of a likelihood of Action: To go another way, and to determine at random, about the peculiar u&s;e of a great many Kinds of different Parts and Particles, joined together promi&s;cuou&s;ly; but inten|ded, in the mean time, for different occa|&s;ions; to pronounce, I &s;ay, of their pecu|liar U&s;e, without a good Pre&s;ident; gives occa&s;ion to Confu&s;ion, Prejudice, and Mi&s;|take; and one may attribute unto one part, an Office which belongs to another: The be&s;t way therefore to avoid any Error in this point, is, when we have a Mind to know, which of the Particles in an Ani|mal, are the true Organ intended, for the Faculty of Nurture, of Growing, of Pro|ducing Seed.</P>
<P>For fear of Mi&s;take, let us lay a&s;ide the more Compounded Mechanical Body at pre&s;ent: And Con&s;ider, Fir&s;t, the Struc|ture of a Plant, which is a more Simple Mechanical Body; a very good Pre&s;ident in the Ca&s;e.</P>
<P>There we are certain to find no Part nor Particle &s;ub&s;ervient to the Faculty of Local Motion, or of Sen&s;ation; and con&s;equently,
<PB N="4" REF="6">no fear of a Mi&s;take; and having had a view of their Shape, Figure, Order, Po|&s;ition, Junction, together with their Juices, which things are &s;ufficient enough, (as Ex|perience &s;hews) to the performance of all the Actions of a Plant: As long as we &s;hall find &s;uch like Organical Particles, and Jui|ces, in an Animal, I think there is no Rea|&s;on to attribute their lively and quick Acti|on to any other, what&s;oever kind of Par|ticles, Parts, or &s;ort of Juice and Liquid, but rather &s;tick to the&s;e, which having been &s;ufficient in Plants, to the &s;ame Action, may be able to perform the &s;ame in an Animal.</P>
<P>We have to &s;ay be&s;ide; to do otherwi&s;e, and to con&s;ult at fir&s;t the more Compoun|ded Body, may bring us into a Mi&s;take, to attribute to one part, an Office which belongeth to another; this we may ea&s;ily prove by a Tryal of it in <HI>Anatomy.</HI></P>
<P>There every one looking <HI>in Globo,</HI> into the Compo&s;ition of Man's Body, thinks &s;ure he does know enough of it's true Orga|nical Parts intended to &s;erve to the Wel|fare of its lively and quick Actions; be|cau&s;e he him&s;elf has &s;een an indefinite num|ber of Ve&s;&s;els, called Arteries, which hav|ing received into their own Cavity a full quantity of Juice, from the Food out of
<PB N="5" REF="6">the Stomach, through Lacteal Veins, Thorachick Lacteal Veins, &s;eems to be of no other u&s;e, than to carry what they have receiv'd, towards the &s;malle&s;t and mo&s;t remote&s;t Particles of our Body, to fur|ni&s;h them Nurture with it; but it may prove the thing to be otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t Conjecture I had about it, was in the Year 1684. and I gave then to the Pub|lick, in a French Letter, directed to the mo&s;t ingenious Squire <HI>Boyle,</HI> Printed in <HI>London,</HI> this Notion of mine there in <HI>P.</HI> 36. <HI>viz.</HI> I &s;ay there that the Chyle was immedi|ately carried into Womens Brea&s;t to produce Milk, without need to go into the Heart, and into the Arteries fir&s;t, and that after the like manner, this &s;ame Chyle may be di&s;tributed into every one Particle of our Body to furni&s;h them Nurture.</P>
<P>Now what I called then Chyle, I do re|duce it &s;ince to a Juice of no Colour, where|as the Chyle is whiti&s;h; and this Juice of no Colour, is the Original of all the Li|quid of our Body; of which we have more to &s;ay hereafter. In this &s;aid Letter, Direc|ted to the &s;aid Squire <HI>Robert Boyle,</HI> I did u&s;e &s;ome Arguments to prove, That Blood was not the Fountain, from whence
<PB N="6" REF="7">the Particles of our Body received their Nurture and their Growth: To the&s;e Ar|guments I have yet &s;een no An&s;wer.</P>
<P>If the Arguments are good, to prove what I did intend, Blood being excluded ac|cordingly from the Office of Nurture, the Arteries, at the &s;ame time, mu&s;t by all means, fall &s;hort of their &s;uppo&s;ed Func|tion, <HI>viz.</HI> To carry Blood every where, up|on an Account of a Liquid, intended to be a Matter, de&s;ighed for the Nurture of every Particle of our Body.</P>
<P>This &s;eems to me the more probable, be|cau&s;e Plants which have the Benefit of Nurture, have none of their Organical Particles, after the Likene&s;s of an Artery, or a Vein. Moreover, in Man's Body, a great many Parts want the&s;e Ve&s;&s;els, and con&s;equently do not u&s;e them, to receive Nurture through their Cavity.</P>
<P>Now it remains that we enquire, which way then the Parts and Particles of our Body may receive their Food, when the Arteries are excluded: This Query does totally de|pend upon the Knowledge, one may Bor|row from the Structure of Plants, and from the way of Di&s;tribution of their Nouri&s;hing Juice, all over their Body.</P>
<P>Towards this Structure we do receive,
<PB N="7" REF="7">for granted, what we had out of tho&s;e Books Publi&s;hed a great many Years ago, by the Ingenious <HI>Malpegius,</HI> Dr. <HI>Grew,</HI> and the Abbot <HI>Marriot,</HI> three Eminent Men; who diligently applyed them&s;elves to look in|to Plants with a Magnifying Gla&s;s, and do agree together, That they have &s;een no|thing el&s;e, in the Texture of Plants, but &s;ome Pores, &s;ome Fibres, &s;ome little Fi&s;tu|la's, &s;ome little Bladders, &s;ome &s;hort and &s;canty Holes, like Store Hou&s;es, without any Artery, or any Vein.</P>
<P>Upon Examination of a great many Parts of Man's Body, as Bones, Gri&s;tles, Teeth, Nails, we find them to have &s;ome Orga|nical Particle, like Plants, but nothing of Artery, or Vein.</P>
<P>The Structure then of Bones, of Gri&s;tles, of Teeth, of Nails, being very like the Structure of a Plant, and both having alike, their Nurture, their Growth, without any Artery, we may conclude the &s;aid Pores, Fibres, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to be, alone, the true Organi|cal Particles of both the&s;e Mechanical Bo|dies, and con&s;equently Arteries are to be excu&s;ed of this Function.</P>
<P>To come to the way of Di&s;tribution of the Nouri&s;hing Juice, it mu&s;t be all alike in both of them: No doubt, Nouri&s;hing
<PB N="8" REF="8">Juice may get into the harde&s;t piece of Wood, into the Texture of a Rocky Bone, Tooth, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and this mu&s;t be a way &s;ome|thing like Filtration; and if it is plain, as it is, that the&s;e hard Bodies receive their Food by &s;uch ways, from Pore to Pore, from Fibre to Fibre, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Why &s;hould we not think that it is a way common to a &s;oft part of Fle&s;h, as well as to an hard Bone, or to a piece of Wood?</P>
<P>It &s;eems to be &s;o much the rather, becau&s;e the Rarity of the Texture of a &s;oft part lies more open to the admi&s;&s;ion of any Liquid; if then we do not &s;ee any Contradiction to it, it will be unrea&s;onable to &s;uppo&s;e, that our Wi&s;e Maker would have multi|plied a Being, without Nece&s;&s;ity. The little Organical Particles, as we have &s;aid, are alone &s;ufficient enough for the Work in a Plant, and in a great many parts of our Body, without the help of any Artery: And it would be again&s;t this &s;aid Rule of Wi&s;dom, to join an Artery to other Organs, without any Nece&s;&s;ity; and when the thing may be done as well without it.</P>
<P>Finally, we do not pretend, for all this, that the Arteries &s;hould not have &s;ome In|fluence into the Functions of Nurture, and others: It may be like the Sun's promoting
<PB N="9" REF="8">the&s;e Actions in rai&s;ing up the Juice out of the Earth, and qualifying it, by the Ver|tue of its Beams; they both open the Pa&s;|&s;ages, and procure a free Cour&s;e to the Liquid, to go every where: Such like Of|fice we may allow to the Arteries; which is a thing quite different from carry|ing into its Cavity the Food it &s;elf <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o be applied for Nurture to every part. And this is that which I oppo&s;e.</P>
<P>We do conclude then, (from the Parity of the&s;e &s;aid Organical Particles, from the likene&s;s of the nouri&s;hing Juice, and from the Parity of the Actions, which we have proved in Plants and Animals, to be totally the &s;ame kind) that the pre&s;ence of &s;uch like Cau&s;es mu&s;t be attended with the &s;ame Ef|fect, and that the &s;ame Effect is to be &s;up|po&s;ed to come from the &s;ame Cau&s;e, when &s;o many Things, in all Circum&s;tances, do agree &s;o well together.</P>
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<PB N="10" REF="9">
<HEAD>CHAP. II. <HI>What may be the Nature of the Faculty, or Power, which hath the greate&s;t Share in any Action; and what may be the Na|ture, of that which is called a Soul in a Plant, in Brutes, and in Mankind.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Body knows better, the Darkne&s;s, the narrow Limits, the Vanity of Learning, than tho&s;e who did apply them&s;elves to the attaining of it, and dived into the My&s;tery of Nature. Anci|ent Philo&s;ophers, &s;urpri&s;ed to a wonder|ful Admiration, about the Regular Moti|on of Heavenly Things, would have them to be Ruled by &s;ome Intelligent Being; at this Rate, every individual Creature be|low, having its different Degrees of Per|fections, &s;hould de&s;erve as well the Patro|nage, and the Pre&s;ence of an Intelligent Being, to a&s;&s;i&s;t at its admirable Actions, as things above &s;hould pretend to.</P>
<P>No wonder then, if it has been thought on, that &s;omething extraordinary, be&s;ides the gro&s;s Parts, and Juices of a Plant, and of an Animal, &s;hould work out in them
<PB N="11" REF="9">the&s;e Actions of Nurture, Growth, and pro|ducing Seed, and this hath been called the fir&s;t kind of Soul in Plants; now to an Ani|mal, which hath over and above a Plant, the Priviledge of Local Motion, and what is called Sen&s;ation, mu&s;t be allowed ano|ther di&s;tinct Soul, to rule ov'r the&s;e different Actions; and this will be a &s;econd kind of Soul. It is a very hard Matter, to give a ju&s;t de|finition of the&s;e pretended Beings, and we think convenient, to inquire, if &s;uch like Beings are in Nature, to be di&s;tinctly per|ceived from the Organical Particles or Parts, from their Po&s;ition, Order, Figure, Juice, joined together in a Plant, or Animal.</P>
<P>To this end, we think fit to Con&s;ult what is neare&s;t to them, <HI>viz.</HI> &s;ome more &s;imple and le&s;s Compounded Machine, plainly known to Mankind. No doubt Man may &s;ay, he knows a Thing, when he is in a Capacity to compo&s;e it, to &s;et it in a way to play the Work, he will have it to play; accord|ingly, a Watch-maker may be &s;aid to have a perfect Knowledge of a Machine we call a Watch, this piece of Workman&s;hip hath its Organical Parts, made out of Metals; to bring things nearer related to Plants, and Animals. Let us &s;uppo&s;e a Machine compo&s;ed with the Metallical Particles, and Liquids, to have Share in the&s;e Actions.</P>
<PB N="12" REF="10">
<P> An Ingenious Man got the Art to com|po&s;e a Bird, which could walk alone, and pick up with its Bill any Seed, Corn, or Gravel, that is u&s;ual to this &s;ort of Crea|ture; the Natural and the Artificial both could Pick up Grains, let them go down their Throat, into their Belly; and from thence, let them out, after the manner of Excrements.</P>
<P>Such a Piece of Workman&s;hip is ea&s;ie to be known from Top to Bottom, and is very much Inferiour to the Mechani&s;m of a Plant, or of an Animal; but neverthele&s;s, it will look mighty &s;trange and wonder|ful to an <HI>American,</HI> of no Experience: He would think with him&s;elf, that &s;uch Ma|chine had in its Bowels &s;ome kind of Animals, which &s;hould Govern its rare Motions. Now, if a poor Mortal hath the Skill to work out &s;uch Machines, fit to per|form the&s;e &s;aid Actions, in which we know of a certainty, that there is no other Pow|er, Faculty or Soul, but the Management of &s;o many pieces joined together, to work out of Nece&s;&s;ity, &s;uch an effect, which we have fore&s;een, and do expect to come.</P>
<P>What can we &s;ay, about the Skill of our Great Ma&s;ter, the Omnipotent and Wife Maker of this World? Shall we reduce him,
<PB N="13" REF="10">to the nece&s;&s;ity of calling in, <HI>viz.</HI> (to work out the Function of any part of a Plant, or Animal;) any further Agent then their fir&s;t Organical Particles, and their Juices, which Things he knew from Eternity, &s;ufficient to perform the work, as we did ob&s;erve in workman&s;hip: Doubtle&s;s it would be inglorious to his Infinite Wi&s;|dom, to u&s;e unnece&s;&s;ary means, to per|form Actions, which can be done without them.</P>
<P>We mu&s;t confe&s;s a great Di&s;parity be|tween the Work of God and Man. Our Mechanical Piece, does borrow a great ma|ny things from its Prototype of God's Work; and ours is very far di&s;tant from its Perfections; for God's Work and Machine hath the Faculty to receive into its mo&s;t intimate Parts, a repairing Nouri&s;hing Juice, and doth change it into its own Sub&s;tance, to build out of it a new Struc|ture, or at lea&s;t to enlarge it, in its Dimen|&s;ions, which we call Growth; and fur|ther, to produce out of its own Bo&s;om, Seeds, and young ones of the &s;ame Na|ture.</P>
<P>This mu&s;t be the Finger of God, and in &s;ome way a continual work of a Creation above the Strength of Humane Power: Let
<PB N="14" REF="11">all Mens Workman&s;hip then, and Men to|gether, bow before the Throne of the Al|mighty, to Wor&s;hip and give him Glory. He is the true Original of all Power and Knowledge, the Light and the Living for ever. In reference to him, Men, and their be&s;t Works, are but Blind and Dead Idols: Shall we then pretend to go beyond him, to compo&s;e a Mechanical Body, able to per|form its Actions, according to the Combi|nation of its Particles, and other Things, which we have fore&s;een, to be &s;ufficient to do the Work alone, without any other Agent; to pretend to out-do God him&s;elf in his Work, and to be Wi&s;er than He, which is the Eternal Wi&s;dom it &s;elf? This would be again&s;t all Rea&s;on; for who can deny to allow him the &s;ame thing with us, who has not only power to make a Machine fit for all the Actions, our Artificial Machine is Capable of, but to rai&s;e it al&s;o be&s;ides to the&s;e Perfections, (above our Artificial, of receiving Nur|ture, Growth, and producing Seed.)</P>
<P>The&s;e things being well con&s;idered, we will lay a&s;ide the thought of a Soul; and as no Body yet hath medled with it in Phy|&s;ick, <HI>viz.</HI> to get any In&s;truction from it, to redre&s;s what is mi&s;&s;ing and out of Order,
<PB N="15" REF="11">in Animal, we mu&s;t rank the Soul in Plants, and in Animals, among&s;t the Imaginary Be|ings, which are Productions not of Nature, but of Fancy only. It is no matter then, for Phy&s;icians to be bu&s;ie about a thing of no u&s;e at all; all our Mea&s;ures and Indica|tions, by which we &s;et into their former Order, any of the&s;e Mechanical Beings, will be in &s;uch one of their Organical Particles and Parts, Number, Po&s;ition, Figure, Order, and the true qualification of their Juice, in fine to amend what may be wanting; this I &s;ay mu&s;t be all the Care of a Phy&s;ician, and the true Bounds of his Knowledge and acting.</P>
<P>What we have &s;aid again&s;t this imagi|nary Being, a Soul in the Mechani&s;m of a Plant, and of an Animal in general, mu&s;t not be extended further, then the Bodily Shape of a Man; which to the performance of the&s;e Actions, of Nuture, Growth, producing Seed, is a &s;imple Machine with|out any Soul, like a Plant, or other A|nimal; and therefore, after the &s;ame man|ner in the Performance of Local Motion and Sen&s;ation, he wants, by no means, the help of a Soul.</P>
<P>But &s;ince in Mankind, there are &s;ome Ex|traordinary Actions, which are not common to
<PB N="16" REF="12">other Animals, as an indefinite Knowledge of all &s;orts of means, to &s;erve his De&s;igns, whereas Brutes have their bounds and limits, every one in a &s;mall Compa&s;s: A Notion we have in the heart of Ju&s;tice and Equity, the preci&s;ion of Times, of what is Pa&s;t, or pre&s;ent, and what is to Come; the large In&s;tru|ment of Rea&s;on, to go from Step to Step, till we can di&s;cover Truth; to know the Cau&s;es by their Effects, and from the Effects to come back to their Cau&s;es; to know the Propriety, Relation, and degrees of Parity and Di&s;parity in the Nature of Numbers and Mea&s;ures; above all, to Confe&s;s and Wor&s;hip our. Omnipotent Maker, and to be &s;en&s;ible together of our own Weakne&s;s; to be in a Capacity to feel an internal Joy, di&s;tinct from what is produced in us, by external and Organical Sen&s;ations, to think, and to make Reflections with our &s;elves.</P>
<P>All the&s;e Perfections, prove another &s;ort of Power in Man, then what is common to Animals in general, Local Motions and Sen|&s;ations; this Power or Faculty we call a Hu|mane Soul, to di&s;cour&s;e about who&s;e Nature it is a very hard Task; the mo&s;t Ingenious Philo&s;ophers of Old, have had but very dark Notions about it, they are the mo&s;t part incertain and wavering in their Opinions, a|bout this Matter; and I think the Attain|ment of it to be above our Human Reach: To this we have for Witne&s;s the Incapacity of our Fore-fathers, which aimed at it, and have
<PB N="17" REF="12">done nothing at all; the Modern Authors of them&s;elves, have had I think as little Succe&s;s.</P>
<P>In my Opinion the true Cau&s;e of it is, we would heartily know a thing of our &s;elves, which is beyond the bounds of Humane Capa|city; for the fir&s;t Man him&s;elf being made by the Power of his Omnipotent Maker; and adorned with the be&s;t Faculty for Di&s;covery, &s;uppo&s;e he &s;hould have had a mind to enquire about the proceeding of his Production, a thou|&s;and thoughts might have come into his mind, about different Cau&s;es he could point at; but they would have been altogether uncertain and wavering Opinions, having nothing of Reality in them; for in matter of Fact unparalel, as this is one, (how and which way the fir&s;t Man was made) &s;ince he was not in Being, before he was framed, all his Care for a Di&s;covery thereof would have been needle&s;s, the percep|tion of a thing done, and the way of its doing, before his coming into this World, was a piece of work above his reach, he could not be a competent Judge of it, the only way to make him &s;en&s;ible of it, was the way of Narration: Accordingly, it plea&s;ed the Lord God to teach our fir&s;t Parents, and to reveal to them, what we have out of the Book of <HI>Gene&s;is,</HI> that God formed Man of the Du&s;t of the Ground, and breathed into his No&s;trils the Breath of Life, and Man became a Living Soul: This Soul we have above and over what we mention'd be|fore, <HI>viz.</HI> what Mechani&s;m, the Plants and Ani|mals, have in common with us; this Frame,
<PB N="18" REF="13">alike theirs, God gave us out of the Du&s;t, and directed all our Organical Parts and Particles, with their Juices, to his Ends and Intention, without any other Agent di&s;tinct from them.</P>
<P>For be&s;ides the rea&s;on we have given of Conveniency, which &s;hows it would be below the Infinite Wi&s;dom, to give to his Machine an unnece&s;&s;ary Soul; in &s;hort to determine all the difficulty about it; God has not only revealed to Man his own Production, but gave him an account, how he proceeded in the making of Plants and Animals; there the di|&s;tinction is plain; we have not a word of brea|thing into their No&s;trils the Breath of Life, a Living Soul; then we conclude well, that they have none, and that for certain we have one, becau&s;e it plea&s;eth God to inform us of it, this Faculty, or Power, hath &s;omething in its being totally di&s;tinct from the Machine; and no wonder if the Ancient Philo&s;ophers have had but a wavering Opinion about it, &s;ince they went a wrong way, to get a &s;olid and real Knowledge of their manner of making; and this being a manner of Fact done, before we had any kind of perception, it is only to be known by way of revelation, which in this pre&s;ent cau&s;e proves to be of an ab&s;olute ne|ce&s;&s;ity; upon which only we rely for the exclu|&s;ion of any, being called a Soul in Plants and Animals, and for a&s;&s;erting a Living Soul in the Brea&s;t of Man.</P>
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