An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

Thirdly, The work of God in the framing of man is internal, as well as external. A statuary, or an engraver will make the image or portraiture of a man, but his work is all outward, he cannot make bowels, or fashion a heart within, he cannot cut out veins, bones and sinews. The greatest wonders of creation are unseen. God hath packed many rarities, mysteries, yea, miracles together in mans chest. All the vital instruments and wheels, whereby the watch of our life is perpetually moved from the first hour to the last, are locked up in a curious internal cabinet, where God himself prepared the pulleys, hung on the weights, and wound up the chime by the hand of his infinite power, without opening of any part; As our own learned ⟨p. 519⟩Anatomist elegantly teacheth us in the Preface to his sixth book.

Thirdly, The work of God in the framing of man is internall, as well as externall. A statuary, or an engraver will make the image or pourtraiture of a man, but his work is all outward, he cannot make bowels, or fashion a heart within, he cannot cut out veins, bones and sinews. The greatest wonders of creation are unseen. God hath packt many rarities, mysteries, yea, miracles together in mans chest. All the vitall instruments and wheels, whereby the watch of our life is perpetually moved from the first hour to the last, are locked up in a curious internall cabinet, where God himself prepared the pulleys, hung on the weights, and wound up the chime by the hand of his infinite power, without opening of any part; As our own learned ⟨p. 519⟩Anatomist elegantly teacheth us in the Preface to his sixth book.

Fourthly, The dimensions, proportions and poise of mans body are so exact and due, that they are made the model of all structures and artificials. Castles, Houses, Ships, yea the Ark of Noah was framed after the measure and plot of mans body. In him is found a circulate figure, and a perfect quadrat, yea the true quadrature of a circle, whose imaginary lines have so much troubled the Mathematicians of many ages.