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Show PREFACE. . ,, . ~ f - ManiscomAN being the Matteipi eCC 0* the puiiiiduiot Creation, the Lord of the Creatures, differ?" Cl prinCipIes. and the Epitome ofthe lower Worl may be ltyled A Miracle of Nature, ) as being w Man'm, a compofition of" two Ellential parts, Body and Soul, infinitely difiant in Nature; the one being an immaterial, the other a ma; terial Principle ( the one Immortal the other Corruptible ) which being wonderfiilly united in one Compound, (l0 produce molt Clif2 lerent) I‘ltion‘ll, fienfitive) and vegetative Faculties, and Opeg rations, which Beak the Omnipotent Powver and Artifice of the All/Wife Architeét. . My Great and Chief Province in the enhling Books, is to give you a pleafant prolpeel of the elegant building of Alan's Body, and the falutary methods to keep it in good repair; and to this end, in 2! Preface, as preliminary to the more large Dilcourfes ofPhyfick, I will lliew you a fummary of the {eve ral apartiments ofa humane Body and the rich Houlholdfhirl; 12:1"?! and fine Furniture contained in them 5 and afterward to give 5'15"?le ‘ tcn aiming luch moral Precepts, as {0 many excellent Rules perfective, clovchur‘ HKJIC. and pi‘ef‘r'xacix'e of‘ourfi'giiii . \lature. As |