CAP. III. I The Partition of Humane Philosophie concerning the Mind, into the knowledg of the inspired Essence; & into the knowledge of the sen∣sible, or producted Soule. §. A second Partition of the same Phi∣losophie, into the knowledge of the Substance and Faculties of the Soule, and the knowledge of the use and Objects of the Faculties. II. Two Appendices of the Knowledge concerning the Faculties of the Soule. §. The knowledge of Naturall Divination; §. And the knowledge of Fascination. III. The Distribution of the Facul∣ties of the sensible Soule. § Into Motion; and § into Sense.
I NOW let us proceed to the Knowledge which concerns the Mind or Soule of man, out of the treasures whereof all other Knowledges are extracted. It hath two Parts, the one entreateth of the Reasonable Soule, which is a thing Divine; the other of the unreasonable Soule, which is common to us with Beasts. We have noted a litle before (where we speake of Formes,) those two different Emana∣tions of Soules, which in the first Creation of them both, of∣fer themselves unto our view, that is, that one hath it's ori∣ginall from the Breath of God; the other from the Matrices of the Elements; for of the Primitive Emanation of the Ratio∣nall Soule,* 1.1 thus speakes the Scripture, Deus formavit hominem de limo terrae, & spiravit infaciem eius spiraculum vitae: But the