132 Of the Advancement of Learning. L i b. IV. 



Chap. III. 



i. The Partition of Humane Phiiofofhy co'ncermng the Mind , into 

 knowledge of the i-nfpiredEffence , and into the knowledge of the fen- 

 fible^or frodH&edSonl. ^ h ikcotxd. ?7iXnnoxx o^ the fame Philofo- 

 phy, into the knowledge of the SnbSiance and Faculties of the Souly 

 and the knowledge of the ufe and obje&i of the Faculties. If. Two 

 Appendices of th knowledge concerning the Faculties of the Soul. 

 § The k^nowledge of Natural Divination ; ^ And the knowledge of 

 Fafcination. III. The Diftribution of the Faculties of the fenfiblt 

 Soul, fj Into Motion j and § into Senfe. 



I. '^"^Or' let us proceed to the Knowledge which concerns the Mind or 

 i\»' Soul of man , out of the treafures whereof all other Know- 

 ledges are extra&ed. It hath two Tarts, the one entreateth of the Rea- 

 fonable Soul, which is a thing Divine 5 the other of the nnreafonable Soul, 

 vehich is common to us with Beajis. We have noted a little before 

 (where we fpeak of Forms) thofe two different Emanations of Souls , 

 which in the firft Creation of them both , offer themfelves unto our 

 view, that is, that one hath its original from the Breath of God '-^ the 

 other from \\\t Matrices of the Elements , for of the Primitive Emana- 

 tion of the Rational Soulj thus fpeaks the Scripture, Deus formavit 



Gen.2. hominem de limo terr£^ ^ fpiravil in faciem ejusfpiraculum vita : But 

 the Generation of the unreafonable Soul , or of Beafts , was accora- 



€«n.i. plilht by thefe words i Producat Aqua^Producat Terra: And this irra-i 

 tional Soul, as it is in man, is the fnftrument only to the Reafonable 

 Soulj and hath the fame original in us, that it hath in Beafts 5 namely, 

 from thejlime of the earth ; for it is not faid God form' d the Body of man, 

 of thejlime of the earth , but God formed man, that is the whole maa 

 that Spiraculum excepted. Wherefore we will ftile that part of the gene- 

 ral knowledge concerning^z*</«/y^«/, the knowledge of the fpiracle, or 

 injpircdfubjlance 5 and the other if'art, the knowledge of the Scnfible 

 or ProduB Soul. And feeing that hitherto we handle Philo(bphy only 

 f placing facred Thcologie in the dole of this work) we would not have 

 borrowed this Partition from Divinity , if it had not here concurr'd 

 with the Principles of Philofophy. There are many and great Precellencies 

 of the foul of man ^ above the fouls of bea^s , evident unto tho(e who 

 philofophize even according to fenfe : And wherefbever the concur- 

 rent Charafters of fuch great excellencies are found, there fhould e- 

 ver, u^Don^ood reaibn, be taiden-fpecijick. Difference. Wherefore we 

 do not altogether fo well allow the Philofophers promifcuous, and con- 

 fu(e Difcourfes touching the Fun&ions of the Soul , as if the Soul of man 

 was differenced gradually. rather than fpecifickl)/ '-, from the foul of Beajis ; 

 no otherwife than the Sun amongft the Stars , or Gold amongft 

 Metals. 



§ There remains another partition alfo to be annexed to the Knowledge 

 in General concerning the foul or mind of man, before we fpeak at large 

 of the kinds: For what we (hall (peak o{ the fpecies hereafter, cora- 



prehendetb 



