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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…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
Fifthly, In every part usefulness and commodiousness, comeliness and convenience meet together. What beauty is stamped upon the face? What majesty in the eye? What strength is put into the arms? What activity into the hands? What music and melody in the tongue? Nothing in this whole fabric could be well left out or better placed, either for ornament, or for use. Some men make great houses which have many spare rooms, or rooms seldom used; but as in this house there is not any one room wanting: so every room is of continual use.
Fifthly, In every part usefulnesse and commodiousnesse, comelinesse and convenience meet together. What beauty is stampt upon the face? What majesty in the eye? What strength is put into the arms? What activity into the hands? What musick and melody in the tongue? Nothing in this whole fabrique could be well left out or better placed, either for ornament, or for use. Some men make great houses which have many spare rooms, or rooms seldom used; but as in this house there is not any one room wanting: so every room is of continuall use.
Was ever clay thus honoured, thus fashioned? Galen gave Epicurus an hundred years to imagine a more commodious situation, configuration or composition of any one part of the body; And surely if all the Angels in heaven had studied to this day, they could not have cast man into a more curious mould, or have given a fairer and more correct edition of him. This clay cannot say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? Or this work, he hath no hands, (