Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis. Delivered by way of exposition in several lords-dayes exercises.: By Benjamin Needler, minister of the gospel at Margaret Moses Friday-Street, London.

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Title: Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis. Delivered by way of exposition in several lords-dayes exercises.: By Benjamin Needler, minister of the gospel at Margaret Moses Friday-Street, London.
Author: Needler, Benjamin, 1620-1682.
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Quest. 8. verse 7.

Why is God said to breath into his no∣strils or face the breath of life, rather then into any other part of the body?

Because the operations of the soul di∣scover themselves in no part of the body, [Resp. 1] more then in the face: hence a living man is usually pictured smiling, or reading, &c.

And besides, the face and head is the seat of all the senses, except the touch, which indeed is spread all over the body; so that the principal part of the body, is put here for the whole: God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, viz. into his body the breath of life.

Because life seemes to be seated in the nostrils: Nares Externum Respirationis or∣ganum: [ 2] breath the necessary consequent of life: hence God is said to breath into his nostrils, because it is the part by which we breath and live.