Part viir.

THE
THIRD PART.
• CHAP. I.
P H T S I C K, and the farts thereof.
f aj Laerf. (a)
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Hyfick is divided into tliefe places; OJ Bodies, Of ?rinciplesf)f Elements, Of Gods, Of Place, Of Vacuum: Thus efpecially', but generally into three places ; Of the World, Of Elements, Aitiologick of Caufes.
That concerning the World, is divided into two parts ^ whereof one Contemplation, is com¬ mon alfo to the Mathematicks, concerning fix¬ ed Stars and Planets *, as whether the Sun be of the fame Magnitude as he appears to be, and whether the Moon be fo likewife ; of their Pe¬ riods and the like ; The other. Contemplation, proper only to Phyfick, to enquire into the Ef- fcnce of thefe whether the Sun and Stars con- lifh of Matter and Form •, whether Generate or Ingenerate, whether Animate or Inanimate, whether Corruptible or Incorruptible, whether govern’d by Providence, or the like.
The Place concerning Caufes, is likewife two¬ fold •, whereof one, Contemplation, is common alfo to the Medicinal Difquifitions, whereby they enquire concerning the principal part of the Soul, and thofe things which are produced in the Soul and Seed,, and the like. The other is like¬ wife ufurped by the Mathematicks, as, in what manner we fee, what is the caufe of the vifual Phanta^e ? How are made Clouds, Thunder, Rainbows, Halo’s, Comets, and the like J
CHAP. II.
Of Bodies.
(a) 'VT Atural Philofophy beancheth into two parts, of Corporeals and Incorpo-
reals.
{bj Lmt. A Body is that which doeth or fufficeth- (b) . It is the Senfe with Eflence or Subllance, and fi- ■ rO Whatfoever is, is a Body, for whatfo- ever is, either doeth or fuffereth.
C dj Laert. (d) Principles are Bodies void of Form.
Elements are Bodies endued with Form.
CO Pht. flac. ^ Caufes are Corporeal , becaufe they are
. Spirits.
CfJ Plut.cont. _ (f) Qiialities are Corporeal, for they are Spi- Sioic. rits , and aerical Intentions , which affedl the parts of all things , generated with Form and Figure.
2«i.^rem7* Virtues, Vices, Arts, Memory, Pbanta- de Affeflions, Appetitions, Affents, are Bo¬ dies exifting in the Supream part of the Soul. ChJ ■S'en. E/. (h) The Soul is a Body, becaufe it maketh
**?• us to be living Creatures.
C^J Senec. Epifl. 8p.
(i) Night and Day are Bodies. J Pluf:
(M) yoke is a Body, for it i^aketh that which is heard ; in a word, whatfoever is, is a ,
Body and a SubjeQ, ((IJfor the Stoicks take a- way intelleffual Subftances, affirming all things that are, to be comprehended by Senfe) only differences are not fubfiftent.
(m) A folid Body ( according to Apollodorys j fmj L^jl . is divifible three ways, into length, breadth and
depth.
A Superficies is the term' of a Body, or that which hath only Length and Breadth , but no Depth •, thus Poffidonius,
A Line is the term of a Superficies , or a Length without Breadth, that which hath Length only.
A Point is the term of a Line, or the lealb mark.
(n) A Body is divifible into Infinite, yet itfnj Suh:
confifteth not of infinite Bodies. .»7«.
C H A P. III.
Of Principles.
(b) ^T^HE place concerning Bodies, is divided faj S^l X into two degrees, into thofe which Ep. yy. produce, and thofe which are produced^ the firft Principles, the fecond Elements.
(b) Principles and Elements differ : Principles fb)
are Ingenerate , Incorruptible : Elements ffiall perilh by Conflagration. Mdi’cover, Principles are Bodies, and void of Form j Elements have Form. ,,
(c) There are two' Principles of all things, ^
the Agent, and the Patient: The Patient is a / > 7 ’ Subitance void of Quality, called Matter : the ’ i Agent is the Reafon which is in the Matter, '
God. , . , ‘
( d) Matter is Iluggilh, a thing ready for all pi ) things, but will ceafe .if none move it. The 6s*
Caule, that is, the Reafon formeth matter, and moldeth it which way he pleafeth , out of which he produceth various Works. There, niuft there¬ fore be fomething out of which a thing is made, and alfo by which it is made. *^^*5 is the Caufe, that Matter, (e) The Caufe or adive Reafon Ce) nidi is God.
_ (/) In the Agent there is Power , in the Pa- . cient a certain Matter for Capacity,] and in'*-' •*
both, both ; for Matter it felf could not Cohere, if it were not kept together by Power, nor that Power without fome Mattery for there is no¬ thing, which is not compelled to be fomewhere.
' (jg) Both
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