Chapter II: Preface: iii

MEMORIAL-INTRODUCTION--I. BIOGRAPHICAL xi

" " II. CRITICAL lvii

" " III. POSTSCRIPT cvi

NOSCE TEIPSUM 1-118

NOTE 3

ROYAL DEDICATION 9

*DEDICATION OF A GIFT-COPY (IN MS.) IN THE POSSESSION
OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND,
AT ALNWICK CASTLE 12

OF HUMANE KNOWLEDGE 15

OF THE SOULE OF MAN AND THE IMMORTALITIE THEREOF 25

What the soule is 29

That the soule is a thing subsisting by it selfe
without the body 29

That the soule is more then a perfection or reflection
of the sense 35

That the Soule is more then the Temperature of
the Humors of the Body 39

That the Soule is a Spirit 41

That it cannot be a Body 42

That the Soule is created immediately by God 45

Erronious opinions of the Creation of Soules 46

Objection:--That the Soule is Extraduce 47

The Answere to the Obiection 49

Reasons drawne from Nature 49

Reasons drawne from Diuinity 52

Why the Soule is United to the Body 60

In what manner the Soule is united to the Body 61

How the Soul doth exercise her Powers in the Body 63

The Vegetatiue or quickening Power 63

The power of Sense 64

Sight 65

Hearing 67

Taste 68

Smelling 69

Feeling 70

The Imagination or Common Sense 70

The Fantasie 71

The Sensitiue Memorie 72

The Passions of Sense 73

The Motion of Life 74

The Locall Motion 74

The intellectuall Powers of the Soule 75

The Wit or Understanding 75

Reason, Vnderstanding 76

Opinion, Judgement 76

The Power of Will 78

The Relations betwixt Wit and Will 78

The Intellectuall Memorie 79

An Acclamation 81

That the Soule is Immortal, and cannot Die 82

Reason I--Drawne from the desire of Knowledge 83

Reason II--Drawn from the Motion of the Soule 85
The Soul compared to a Riuer 85

Reason III--From Contempt of Death in the
better Sort of Spirits 90

Reason IV--From the Feare of Death in the
Wicked Soules 92

Reason V--From the generall Desire of Immortalitie 93

Reason VI--From the very Doubt and Disputation
of Immortalitie 95

That the Soule cannot be destroyed 96

Her Cause ceaseth not 96

She hath no Contrary 96

Shee cannot Die for want of Food 97

Violence cannot destroy her 98

Time cannot destroy her 98

Objections against the Immortalitie of the Soule 99

Objection I 100

Answere 100

Objection II 104

Answere 105

Objection III 106

Answere 106

Objection IV 108

Answere 109

Objection V 110

Answere 110

The Generall Consent of All 111

Three Kinds of Life answerable to the three
Powers of the Soule 113

An Acclamation 114