comfort, to so many years or luftras. The whole creation now grown old expecteth and waiteth for a certain rejuvenescency, with which ere long it fhall furely be blessed, Rom. viii. 19, 20: In the mean time, this is prefented unto us in a figure, in those several transformations and renovations of the ant, and filk-worm, and many such infectiles, which are foon brought to extream old age by their inceffant labour; in recompence whereof, by a wonderful metamorphofis, they are renewed into brisk and lively flies. And there are abundance of more perfect creatures also, which depofiting their old fkins, or fhells, or fome fuch emblem of their age, are at certain seasons brought back again to a youthful state, and fuch are fnakes, lizards, crabs, crevifes, eagles, king-fishers, and fuch like; and why fome fuch thing as this, or at least something analogous hereunto, may not be wrought upon man, the moft perfect creature of all the earth, I am sure no one can give an account. David in his doxology intimates, that there may, faying, concerning God in his providences, He fatisfieth thy mouth with good things, fo that thy youth is renewed like the eagles, Pfal. ciii. 5. Yet were not these things thus vifibly demonstrated to us, God might in his woλToixiλcopía, Eph. iii. 1. alter the course wherein hitherto he hath manifested himself, and in fome things he hath given us affurance that he he will; the way that hitherto he hath been pleased to take to bring our bodies to glory and immortality, hath been through misery, dust, and darkness, but in the last day he will take a nearer course to do the fame thing; Behold, I fhew you a mystery, we shall not all fleep, but fball all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump, for the trumpet fhall found, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed, 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52. These magnalia natura, (viz. the preventing, alleviating, and curing (as far as is attainable) the diseases before mentioned, the retarding of age, the prolonging of life, the renewing of youth) that have scarce entred the thoughts of vulgar pretenders to phyfick; have been as unto the practic part under our confideration, with like care and industry, as what you here fee in the theory; and that from principles gathered up, not only from reafon, reading, and experience; but from fome eminent inftructive expreffions of holy writ, which are not obvious to every cursory and superficial reader: all which may also be communicated to you in a convenient season. THE THE. INDEX. HE introduction, from Page 1, to 11. THE The use of the Scripture, p. 12. The feveral inter VERSE I. from Page 11, to Page 20. The exhortation, p. 11. The general difeafes and in·· VERSE II. from Page 20, to Page 48. The feveral interpretations of this verfe, p. 20, 21, 22. Their communion, p. 24. The inward man which doth not decay, p. 25, 26, 27. The SUN, or rational faculty fuperior, p. 27, 28. The difference between foul and spirit, p. 29, 30. The LIGHT, or rational faculty inferior, p. 31, 32. The speculative operations, p. 32. The practical, p. 32, 33. Solomon's declenfion, p. 33, 34. The will, P. 34, 35. The MOON, or fenfitive faculty, p. 36. Its operations, p. 36, 37. The common fenfe and fancy the fame faculty, p. 37, 38. The STARS, or the fpecies in the memory, P. 39, 40. Not only of the fancy, but of the understanding, p. 40, 41. The ufe of this faculty, p. 41, 42. The difeafes, p. 43, 44. CLOUDS AFTER RAIN (i. e.) one mifery after another, P. 44, 45. Notwithstanding what nature can do, p. 46, or art, P. 47. VERSE III. from Page 48, to Page 89. The body compared to an house, p. 48. The keepers of the house not the thorax, but the hands. p. 49, 50. How they keep the house, p. 51, 52. The bones, The muscles, P. 54, 55. The difeafes, p. 55. The causes of The frong men, or the feet, Their likeness to the keepers of the The femur, p. 61, 62. P. 52, 53. The thumb, p. 53, 54. them, p. 56, 57. The pa p. 57, 58, 59. house, p. 60. tella, p. 63. The conjunction of the fibula, p. 63, 64. The variety of the flexures of the hands and feet, p. 64. The mufcles, p. 65. The difeafes, p. 65, 66. The grinders, the jaw bones, p. 67. The teeth feveral ways fitted for grinding, p. 68, 69, 70. The divifion of them, p. 70, 71. The reafons why the great and broad teeth are moft proper ly ly the grinders, p. 71, 72. plied, p. 73, 74. Creatures that have in teeth only on one jaw, and how that want is fupThe difeafes, P. 74, 75. How the eyes may be called the lookers out of the dows, p. 76. The pellucid parts, p. 77. The humours, ib. The tunicles, p. 77, 78. The use of the tunica cornea, p. 78. The visible species, p. 79. How vifion is made, p. 79, 80. The holes, p. 81, 82. The orbitæ, p. 82. The palpebre, or eyelids, 82, 83. The iris, or party-coloured part of the eye, p. 84. Pupilla, or apple of the eye, p. 84, 85. The optick nerve, p. 85, 86. The difeafes, p. 87, 88. VERSE IV. from Page 89, to Page 132. The connection, p. 89. The Caufe of former interpreters miftakt upon this verse, p. 90, 91. A double grinding, 91. Why fermentation is called grinding, 91, 92, 93. Chylification, p. 93. Sanguification, p. 94, 95. Affimilation, p. 96, 97. La&tification, p. 97, 98. Spermification, p. 98, 99. The grinding of Sampfon, p. 100, 101. The found of the grinding, p. 102. The lownefs thereof, or the difeafes, p. 103, 104. The doors, p. 104. The fore-doors, p. 105, 106. The back-doors, p. 106. The intermediate-doors, p. 106, 107. The freets, p. 108, 109. The shutting of the doors, or the difeafes, p. 199, 110. The voice of the birds, p. 111, 112. The difeafes, p. 113. How both fleeping and waking may be accounted infirmities of age, p. 114, 115, Why age is defined morbus naturalis, p. 116, 117. The active daughters of mufick, p. 117. The lungs, 118, 119. The |