great _ARTIFICER_. THAT we may be the more duly and sensibly affected towards _him_, and the more admire and reverence the _Wisdom_ of his Nature, as he bountifully produced all things for the Use and Utility of _MAN_; so he most appositely disposed the _Herbs_ of the Field, some to our _Nourishment_, some to our _Remedies_, and some to _both Necessities_: assimilating and assigning them to our singular _Members_, so that their _Powers_ and _Virtues_ are _physically_ convey’d to such _Parts_ of our _Bodies_, as they are adapted to by _Nature_. AND in the same manner he imbued the _Roots_ of the Ground with such _natural Qualities_, that they by their respective innate _Faculties_, succour and relieve those _Members_, to which they are _specifically_ destinated; and such _Members_ sensibly attract and imbibe from them, not only wholesome _Nutriment_, but also healthful _Remedies_ peculiarly appropriated to themselves by _Nature_. BUT the immortal _SOUL_, which is only peculiar to _MAN_, whereby he so perfectly assimilates and resembles GOD; and its _Gifts_ and _Graces_, whereby he excels and out-shines all other sublunary _Creatures_; is more properly the SUBJECT of the _Divine_, than the _Physician_; wherefore I shall but touch it transiently. [Illustration] CHAP. IV. _Of the SOUL._ THE _SOUL_ is a certain _divine Light_, created after the Image of GOD; figured by a _Seal_, whose Character is the _eternal Word_. THE _SOUL_ is a certain _divine Substance_, individual, and entirely present in _every Part_ of the Body, depending only upon the Power of _Him_, who is the ultimate END, and efficient _Cause_ of all things; whose _Body_ (according to _Plato_) is _Truth_, whose _Shadow_ is _Light_, and whose _Name_ is GOD. AND this divine Substance of _Light_, the _SOUL_, immediately proceeding from that divine Fountain of all Things, GOD, (according to the Opinion of the _Platonists_) is join’d, by competent _Means_, to the grosser Matter of the _Body_. Which _Means_ these _Heathens_ account for in manner following: _viz._ THE _SOUL_, in its Descent, is involved in an _etherial Body_, which they call the _celestial Vehicle_, or _Chariot_ of the SOUL; thro’ which _Medium_, by the Command of GOD, (who is the _Center_ of the World) it is first _infus’d_ into the middle _Punct_ of the _Heart_, which is the _Center_ of the _Body_; whence it is _diffus’d_ thro’ all the Parts and Members of the _Body_, joining itself to the _natural Heat_. As a _Spirit_, generated by _Heat_ from the _Heart_, it plungeth itself into the _Humours_; and thus inhering in all the respective _Parts_, it becomes equal in degree of _Proximity_ to all the _Members_.