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CHAP. II. (Book 2)
The Definition of an irrational Creature.
AN irrational or brute creature is a body per∣fectly mixed, indued with life and sense; for the Genus, here is body; for the Form of it, that is two-fold.
1. It is said to be perfectly mixed, to difference it from Meteors that are not.
2. It is indued with Life and sense, to diffe∣rence it from Vegetatives which have not; so that an irrational creature consisteth of a body and soul.
Of the body of a Brute.
THe body of a Brute is the collection of its severall members and intrails, ••of fluids as blood, of solids as flesh and bone, similar and dissimilar parts; in this order all the other parts are to be explained; but we shall pass by these mem∣bers which it hath in common with man, which are all explained in Melancthon, of the soul. There are many creatures which want blood, as Spi∣ders, and Pismires, but instead of that they have