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Rh and all harmony of music: for double, treble, four times double, one and a half, one and a third part, a concord of all, a double concord of all, of five, of four, and all consonancy is limited within the bounds of the number four. It doth also contain the whole of Mathematics in four terms, viz., point, line, superfices, and profundity. It comprehends all Nature in four terms, viz., substance, quality, quantity, and motion; also all natural philosophy, in which are the seminary virtues of Nature, the natural springing the growing form, and the compositum. Also metaphysics is comprehended in four bounds, viz., being, essence, virtue, and action. Moral philosophy is comprehended with four virtues, viz., prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. It hath also the power of justice: hence, a four-fold law—of providence, from God; fatal, from the soul of the world; of Nature, from Heaven; of prudence, from man. There are also four judiciary powers in all things being, viz., the intellect, discipline, opinion and sense. Also, there are four rivers of Paradise. Four Gospels, received from four Evangelists, throughout the whole Church. The Hebrews received the chiefest name of God (Spirit), written with four letters. Also the Egyptians, Arabians, Persians, Magicians, Mohametans, Grecians, Tuscans, and Latins, write the name of God with four letters, viz., thus—Thet, Alia, Sire, Orsi, Abdi,, Esar, Deus. Hence the Lacedemonians were wont to paint Jupiter with four wings. Hence, also, in Orpheus' Divinity, it is said that Neptune's chariots are drawn with four horses. There are also four kinds of divine furies proceeding from several deities, viz., from the Muses, Dionysius, Apollo, and Venus. Also, the Prophet Ezekiel saw four beasts by the river Chobar, and four cherubims in four wheels. Also, in Daniel, four great beasts did ascend from the sea: and four winds did fight. And in the Revelations, four beasts were full of eyes, before and behind, standing round about the throne of God; and four angels, to whom was given the power to hurt the earth and the sea, did stand upon the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds, that they should not blow upon the earth, nor upon, the sea, nor upon any tree.

The number Five is of no small force; for it consists of the first even and the first odd: as of a female and male: for an odd number is the male, and the even the female; whence arithmeticians call that the father, and this the mother. Therefore the number five is of no small perfection or virtue, which proceeds from the mixtion of these numbers; it is, also, the just middle of the universal number, viz., ten: for if you divide the number ten, there will be nine and one, or eight and two, and seven and three, or six and four, and every collection makes the number ten, and the exact middle is always the number five, and its equa-distant;