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 is one thing; and this name Hacaba  is extracted from this verse

the holy and the blessed one; in like manner this name Jesu  is found in the heads of these two verses, viz.

that is, untill the Messiah shall come, and the other verse

that is, his name abides till the end, Thus also is the name Amen  extracted from this verse

that is the Lord the faithfull King; sometimes these names are extracted from the end of words, as the same name Amen, from this verse

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that is, the wicked not so, but the letters are transposed; so by the finall letters of this verse

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that is, to me what? or what is his name? is found the name Tetragrammaton, in all these a letter is put for a word, and a letter extracted from a word, either from the beginning, end, or where you please; and sometimes these names are extracted from all the letters, one by one, even as those seventy two names of God are extracted from those three verses of Exodus beginning from these three words,

the first and last verses being written from the right to the left, but the middle contrarywise from the left to the right, as we shall shew hereafter; and so sometimes a word is extracted from a word, or a name from a name, by the transposition of letters, as Messia  from Ismah  and Michael   from  Malachi. But sometimes by changing of the Alphabeth, which the Cabalists call Ziruph   so from the name Tetragrammaton   are drawn forth  Maz Paz  Kuzu sometimes also by reason of the equality of numbers, names are changed, as Metattron   for Sadai   for both of them make three hundred and fourteen, so Iiai   and El   are equall in number, for both make thirty one. And these are the hidden secrets concerning which it is most difficult to judge, and to deliver a perfect science; neither can they be understood and taught in any other language except the Hebrew; but seeing the names of God (as Plato saith in Cratylus) are highly esteemed of the Barbarians, who had them from God, without the which we can by no means perceive the true words and names by which God is called, therefore concerning these