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be going, but is a Watch going or standing. The Name is common to that Part of Man, or any other Creature of that Species of Matter, including each Figure, with the different Degrees of Capacity in each, without Comprehenfion or Diftinction supposed to be a Man, Lev. xxvi. 11. Jer. li. 14. Amos vi. 8. borrowed for an Idea of Jehovah Aleim, or spoke of the Body of Chrift.

I cannot break the Verfes, fo cannot keep the Citations exactly in the Order of the Description. Pfal. cxxxix. 4. I am

wonderfully נפלאים fearfully and נוראות

made. Job. x. Haft thou not poured me out as Milk, and curdled me like Cheese? Thou baft clothed me with Skin and Flesh, and fenced (Heb. hedged) me with Bones and Sinews (or Nerves) (Lives and Mercy haft thou made with me) and thy Vifitation bath kept my Spirit; (all these Parts are exclufive of me, the Frame.) So Exekiel xxxvii. 5. Thus faith the Lord God unto these Bones, Behold, I will caufe Breath to enter into you, and you shall live, and I will lay Sinews upon you, and will bring Flesh upon you, and cover you with Skin, and put Breath into you, and ye Shall live And the Bones came toge ther, Bone to his Bone. And when I be

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beld, lo the Sinews and the Flesh came. upon them, and the Skin covered them above, but there was no Breath in them. Then faid he unto me, Prophefy unto the Wind, Prophefy Son of Man, and fay unto the Wind, thus faith the Lord God, come from the four Winds, O Breath, and breathe upon thofe flain, that they may live. So I prophefied as he commanded me, and the Breath came unto them, and they lived, and stood upon their Feet. In the next we have the Veffels of the Frame in one Word na Chald. the Reins (Gr. xoxía) which is used for the Frame, as the Heart is for the Soul, and to which the Affections of the Frame are attributed, and were as well as the Blood to be facrificed (fo n is also used for the Affections of the Frame,) Job xix. 27. Though my Reins be confumed within me (in my Bofom.) The next is a Description of the Veffels of the Frame; 'tis not neceffary to explain it more fully here. Eccl. xii. 6. Or ever the Silver Chord be loofed, or the golden Bowl be broken, or the Pitcher be broken at the Fountain, or the Wheel (the Organs of Circulation) be broken at the Cistern. Thefe next fhew that the Blood is Part of the Frame; Gen. ix. 5. C 2 Surely

Surely your Blood on which is for the Ufe (or Support) of your (animal) Frame will I require, at the Hand of every Man's Brother will I require Di

in the animal Frame of Man. Prov. xxviii. 17. A Man that doth Violence to the Blood D of any Perfon, fhall flee to to the Pit, let no Man ftay him. Fer. ii. 34. is found the Blood of the Animal Frames. Ezek. xvi. 5. qwa by to the loathing of thy Perfon. (Z. P. i. e. Bo dy.) Before the Fall, Gen. i. 28. there was a general Grant of all Creatures. After the Flood, Gen. ix. 4. there is a Reftraint of Blood mentioned; and Levit. xvii. 11. the Reafon given (which arose by the Fall, and then took Place) and the Promise confirm'd, Gen. 4. Only the Flesh with the Life, its Blood fhall you not eat. Lev. xvii. 11. For the Life of the Flesh is in the Blood; and I have appointed it you upon the Altar, to atone for your Lives: for the Blood which is in the Life (or that Part which lives, in the animal Frame) will atone. Ver. 14. For the Life of all Flefh is its Blood; it is in the Life; and I fay unto the Children of Ifrael, ye shall not eat the Blood of any Flefb: because the Life of all Flef is its Blood. Deut. xii. 23. Only be fure that thou eat not the

Blood,

הנפש the Blood that is הדס Blood, for הבשר with הנפש and thou halt not eat

the Flefb.

As this distinguishes the Frame and Fluids from the Flesh, fo Ifa. x. 18. from the to the Flefb. So Job ii. 5, D 6. Touch his Bone and his Flefh.- Behold, be is in thine Hand, but fave his wo Life. The Light and Spirit gave this Frame and the Fluids Life. Gen. vi. 17. Every Flesh wherein is on the Breath of their Lives. Job vii. 7. Remember that Breath is " my Life. xii. 10. In whofe Hand is the wDI of every one that lives; and the Breath of every Flesh of Man; Pfal. cxiv. 29. Thou takeft away their Breath, they die, & al. Wild. xv. 16. He that borroweth his own Spirit fashioneth them. So D a Verb fignifies, to breath, and a Subftantive an Agent, a Breather, or a Frame breath'd in. Evod. xxiii. 12. And the Son of thy Handmaid may take Breath. take Breath. xxxi. 17. On the feventh Day he refted and took Breath. 2 Sam. xvi. 14. They that were with him panting, and took Breath there: Wifd. vii. 3. I drew in common Air. This wants fuch Supplies, liable to fuch Senfations and Appetites as Brutes are. Exod. xii. 16. Only that which is eaten wa hab of every Frame. Lev. v. 2. Or if the

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Frame touch. vii. 18. The Frame that eateth of it. xvii. 10. xxii. 4. He that toucheth any unclean animal Frame. Num. xix. 22. Deut. xxiv. 5. And Jets bis 3 upon it. Job vii. 15. And my way choofeth its Breath to be stopped: my Subftance Death. xxxiii. 20. And his Frame abborreth defirable Food. Pfal. lxxviii. 18. Afking Meat for their WD. cv. 8. The Iron enter'd his Frame. Prov. vi. 30. Men do not defpife a Thief, if he fteal to fatisfy his Frame, when he is hungry. xxv. 25. Cold Waters to the thirty animal (Part.) xxvii. 7. The full Frame loaths the Honey-comb; but to the hungry Frame every bitter Thiug is fweet. Ifa. xxix. 8. And his Frame is empty-And his Frame has Appetite. Jer. xiii. 17. My Frame Shall weep. xxxviii. 16. That gave us this Breathing (Time). Thefe Words are ufed for all the Animals in the Creation. Gen. i. 21. Every Animal living. Ver. 24, 30. ii. 7. ix. 10, 12, 15, 16. and why is liable to be preferved alive, to be fmitten, killed, to die, to be felt when dead, to defile others by touching it, as other Animals are. Gen. xix. 20. And my Frame fhall live. Lev. xxi. 11. Neither fhall be go in to no nwbih dead Frame. Num. vi. 6. Lev. xxiv, 17. That

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