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45 I<br />
have been very inquifitive into the ufe of the Jingle<br />
parts, of the bones, mufcles, reins, and veffels, but<br />
have not fo well confidered what they altogether con-<br />
tribute to one common ufe.<br />
Cagnatus is of opinian, that all of them, but each<br />
in a different manner, are 'appropriated as well for the<br />
elaborating the feed as performing the work of gene-.<br />
ration, which the philofopher calls the moft natural.<br />
Hieronymus Montuus and Tiraquellus feem to counte-<br />
nance this opinion, and that with good reafon and<br />
judgment<br />
For it is evident from the unanimous confent of all<br />
writers, whether facred or prophane, that antiquity<br />
attributes fome fuch office to the loins, reins, and fides.<br />
As for the Scriptures, they frequently appropriate the<br />
work of generation to the loins, as in the thirty-fifth<br />
chapter of Genefis, verfe 1., Kings than proceed from<br />
thy loins. And in the epiftle to the Hebrews, chap.<br />
VII. ver. 15, The fons of Abraham are faid to have<br />
come from his loins ; and ver. 16, Levi is raid to have<br />
been in his loins. From whence Bafil the Great, in<br />
kis
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