The animal virtue is Intellective, and Sensitive.
The Intellective is Imagination, Judgment, and Memory.
The sensitive is Common, and Particular.
The particular is Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Feeling.
The scope of this discourse is, To preserve in soundness and vigour, the mind and understanding of man; to strengthen the brain, preserve the body in health, to teach a man to be an able co-artificer, or helper of nature, to withstand and expel Diseases.
I shall touch only the principal faculties both of body and mind; which being kept in a due decorum, preserve the body in health, and the mind in vigour.
I shall in this place speak of them only in the general, as they are laid down to your view in the Synopsis, in the former pages, and in the same order.
Virtue Procreative.] The first in order, is the Virtue Procreative: for natural regards not only the conservation of itself, but to beget its like, and conserve in Species.
The seat of this is the Member of Generation, and is governed principally by the influence of Venus.
It is augmented and encreased by the strength of Venus, by her Herbs, Roots, Trees, Minerals, &c.