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prehendeth both the partitions^ as well that which we havefet down 

 already, as this which we fhall now propound. Wherefore thcjecoad 

 Partition may be, into the kjiovcledge concernivg the Sttbjlance ami Facul' 

 ties of the Soul j and into the knowledge concerning the nfe and objeCtt 

 of the Faculties. 



§ This two-fold Partition of the Soul thus premis'd, let us now come 

 unto the fpecies or kinds.The knowledge of the Spiraculnvi^or infpif-ed 

 Effence, asthat concerning the fubftance oftheReafonable Soul, com- 

 prehends thefe Inquiries touching the Nature thereof, as whether, it 

 be Native, or Adventive ^ Separable, or Infeparable ; Mortal, ox Im- 

 mortal •-, how far it is tied to the Lares of Matter, hovpfar, not, and the 

 lik,ei What other points foever there are of this kind, although they 

 may be more diligently, and fbundly inquired even in Philolophy, 

 than hitherto they have been ; yet for all this, i,i our opinion, they 

 muft be bound over at laft, unto Religion, there to be determined and 

 defined 5 for otherwife they ftill lye open to many errors and illufions 

 of fenfe. for feeing that thefubjlance of the Sonl voas not deduced and ex- oT,sf 

 trailed in her Creation from the Maf^ of Heaven and Earth, but immedi- My««n- 

 ately injpiredfrom God-j and feeing the Laws of Heaven and Earth are the "™' 

 properjubjc&s of Philofophy j how can the l{nowledge of thefubjiance of the 

 Reafonable Soul be derived or fetch' d from PhHofdphy ? But it muji be drawn 

 from the fame infpiration from whence the fnbtlance thereof fir H flow- 

 ed. 



§ The Knowledge of the fenjble or produced Soul, as touching the de 

 lubftance thereof is truly enquired into, but this enquiry (eems tons to an^^'^* 

 be Deficient: For what makes thefe terms o£ A& us Vltimus 5 and Forma sensisj- 

 Corporis-j and fuch like wild logical Univerlalities, to the knowledge of ^"^ 

 the Souls fubftance ? For the fenfibleScul,0T the (bul ofBeafts^muft needs 

 be granted, to be a Corporalfubjiance attenuated by heat and made Invi' 

 ftblei if^y^ athin gentle gale of wind fwell'd and blown up from fomi fla- 

 my and airy Nature, indeed with the foftnefl of Air to receive iwprejjion, 

 and with the vigor of fire to embrace adion^, nourifljed partly by an oily, 

 partly by a watery fub/iance 5 fpread over the Body ; reftding (in perfeCi 

 Creatures) chiefly in the head ^ running through the nerves^ refrepH and 

 repair d by the fpirituous blood of the Arteries , as Bernardinus Telcfius, and Tele, de 

 his Scholar, Augujiinus Donius in forae points, not altogether unpro- i^"." q^J.* 

 fitably, have delivered it. Let there be therefore made a more dili- 

 gent enquiry touching this knowledge, and the rather for that this 

 point, not well underftood hath brought forth fuperftitious and very 

 contagious opinions, and raoft vilely abafing the Dignity of thcfiul 

 of man 5 of Tranfmigration of fouls out of one body into another ; and Lu- 

 Jirations of fouls by Periods of years '-, and finally afthe too near affinity in 

 every point of the foul of man, with the fouls ofbeajis. This foul in Bcafis 

 is a principal foul^ whereof the body of Beafts is the Organ 5 but in man 

 this foul is it (elf an Organ of the Soul Rational and may rather be called 

 by the appellation oia.Spirit, thzaot a. Soul. And thus much of the 

 fubjlance of the Soul. 



§ The Faculties of the Soul are well known, tobeVnderffanding^ Rea- 

 fon--^ Imagination •■) Memory:, Appetite'--, Will, and all thofe Powers, a- 

 bout which the Sciences of Logick and Ethick^zre converfant. But in the 

 knowledge concerning the foul, the Original of thefe Faculties ouqht to be 



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