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 that if the knowledge and distinction, of Geometricalle and Arithmeticall proportion bee not well obserued, there can noe Iustice well bee executed. And how often the ministers of the Lawe vse aide of Nomber, I neade not repete, bicause none but madde men doubt of it.

And as for Physike, without knowledge and aide of nomber is nothynge. Wee see that nature in generation, bothe of manne and beastes, yea and of al thynges els doeth obserue nomber exactly. As well in the type of formation, as in the monethes of quickenyng, and of birthe. The misteries of the seuenth and nineth monethes are sufficiente testimonies therein. Beside that from the fourthe monethe til the seuenth many thynges bee permitted, that els bee not conueniente. For the vse of the pulse, and for criticalle dayes, beside the proportion in degrees in simple medicines, and mixture of compounde medicines, and other infinite maters, what nomber can doe and what aide it giueth, onely the ignoraunte doe doubte.

But where can there bee any better testimonie for Nomber, then that the celestialle bodies doe kepe an vnfallible nomber, in all their wonderfulle motions? By meanes whereof, mannes witte is habled to attaine the knowledge of them. As by the Arithmeticalle tables, of their motions it is easily knowen. Therefore and for that we see the yere, and all the distinction of times, beside the common vse of trafike betwene menne, to depende of nomber, wee muste neades not onely confesse it to bee, as it were the onely staie of all natures woorkes, and of all ciuilitie: but we must also honoure and reuerence it, as often as wee duely remember the excellencie and benifite of it. Was not Nomber, thinke you, wonderfullie honoured, when noe name was thought moare meter for God, then the name of Nomber? I meane .1. and .3. the name of the Trinitie. But to come to moare familiare ma-