The ladies friend ; or, complete physical library / [Stephen Freeman].

  • Freeman, Stephen, M.D.
Date:
[1785?]
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Credit: The ladies friend ; or, complete physical library / [Stephen Freeman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In Man lie ended his work ; on Man he (lamped his feal and fign of his power, on him he has imprinted his own image and fuperfcription, his arms and his por- traiture. Dixit Deus, Faciamus kominnn ad imagine at ncfram, fecundum Jimilitudinem noft ram. “ God faid. Let us make Man in our image, after our like a els.’* In the creation of Man, God feerneth to deliberate and take council with himfelf, how to ep:tomi%e and gather together all his works in fo final 1 a compafs, to contract his book of creation into fo finall a volume. He is called the Microhm, or little world, the re- capitulation of all things, the ligament of angels and beads, heavenly and earthly, fpiritual and corporal things, the perfection of the whole work, the honour and miracle of Nature. lie created him naked, being a pure, neat, and delicate creature, made up of thin, fubtile, well-tempered and feafoned humours, inno- cent, and far more beautiful than the red. He was created upright, but little touching the earth, quite oppofite to the vegetable plant, whole root is therein fixed ; far different alfo from the bead, who is a mean between a plant and himfelf, and goeth down- ward : his two extremes tending to the bounds of the horizon : this upright gait belonging only unto the human fpecies, as the holieft and mod divine creature, his head tending to the heavens, on which he looks, and there beholds himfelf as in a glafs, according to that of Ovid: Os hominifublime dedit, coclumqtic vidcre jfijfit* ct credos adfdcra tollere vultus. Tranflated thus: He gave Man lofty looks, and upright gait, il To view the heavens, and thereon contemplate. His body being thus formed of pure, fubtile earth, as a houfe and habitation for the foul, God breathed in him the breath of life, and he became a living crea- ture ; fo, in the ordinary generation and formation, which is made of the feed in the womb, nature obferv . eth the fclf lame order; the body is firft formed, as well
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