BOOK the Second.

CHAP. 1. Of Life.

There is a Vital Substance distinct from a Body, 1. The Being hereof, Possible, 2, 3. Though we have no adequate conception hereof, 4, 5. Reasonable, 6. And Necessary, 7. For as much as Body cannot be vital, 8. Neither as subtilized, 9, 10, 11. Nor as organized, 12, 13, 14, 15. Nor as moved, 16. Nor as immediately endowed with life, 17, 18, 19. The communication of things corporeal and incorporeal, how made, 20, 21, 22. And their union, 23. The several species of life, 24. The lowest, that without sense, 25, 26. By which all bodies have their radiations and mutual inclinations, 27. And are, in a sort, animated, 28. So as to make one moiety of the universe, 29. More remarkable in plants and animals, 30. In their generation, and nutrition, 31, 32, 33, 34. And in sundry of their motions, 35. The benefit of this its independence on sensible life, 36.

CHAP. 2. Of Sense.

Sense, the highest species of life, in some things, 1. Yet the adjunct of a distinct principle, 2. What sense is, 3. The modes of motion, on which sense depends, 4. On which, all grateful sense, 5. Sounds, how diversified; in being bigger, 6. Louder, and sharper, 7. Musical, 8. Whence the sameness of a musical note, whether strong or soft, 9. Whence, musical concords, 10. Or discords, 11, 12. Figures, and colours, how they become beautiful, 13, 14. Whence the distinction of tastes, and scents, 15, 16. Whence any pleasant touch, 17. The troublesomeness of tickling, 18. Whence pain, 19. The suitableness of all the instruments of sense, 20. The number of senses, limited by the number of organs, 21. The notice they give us of sensibles, true and just, 22, 23, 24, 25. Yet not sufficient of themselves, to produce sense, 26.

CHAP. 3. Of Mind. And first, Of Phancy, or Phantastick Mind.

Mind or thought, distinct from sense, 1. The species hereof, phancy, and intellect, 2. Of phancy, we are to distinguish the organ, 3. The images, 4. And the acts, 5. The great use hereof, even in brutes, 6. Yet amounteth not to intellection; Because they are not improvable, beyond their own instinct, 7. Nor do they work electively, 8. Nor by imitation, nor disquisition, 9. Something like them, in mad-men, 10. Explained by instances, 11. Great evidences of the divine art, 12. Human phancy, much more noble, 13. Defined, 14. Its acts, 15. The first, viz. perception, hath its species, 16. Every species, three modes, 17. viz. recognition, 18. Memory and reminiscence, 19, 20, 21. Foresight and forecast, 22, 23, 24. Of these, consist the schemes of phancy, 25. Either answer-