Part IX.

Movcover, whatfoever is comprehended by man, (fay they)*eirber is a body, or incorporeal ^ but neither ot thefe is comprehended without the notion of Numbers : a body, having a triple dimenfion, denotes the number three. Befides, dt Bodies, Ibine are by connexion, as Ships, Chains, Buildings others by union, compriz’d under one .habit, as Plants, Animals ; others by aggregati¬ on, as Armies, Herds. All thefe have numbers, as confiding of plurality. Moreover, of Bodies, fome have fimple qualities, others multiplicious, as af»
Apple, various colour to the fight, juice to tfir tade, odour to the fmell -, thefe alio are of the nature of numbers. It is the fame of Incorporeals •
Time, an incorporeal, is comprehended by num¬ ber, years, months, days, and hpurs. The like of a Point, a Line, a Superficies, as we Paid al- i
ready.
Likewife to numbers are correfpondent both naturals and artificials. We judge every thing by ciiceries, v/hich are the meafures of numbers, If we take away number, we take' away the Cubit, which confids of two half cubits, fix palms, twen¬ ty four digits; we take away the Bufhel, the Bal- lance, and all other criteries, which confiding of plurality, aie kinds of number. In a word, there is nothing in. life without it. All art is a colleftion of comprehenfions, colledion implies number 5 ic is therefore rightly faid,
- To Number all things reference have.
that is, to dijudicative reafon, which is of the fame kind with numbers, w’hereof all confids. Hither¬ to Sextus.
(c) The Dm of all (as by Alexander in his Sue- celTions, extraded out of the Pythagoridk Com-^' mentaries) is this : the Monad is the principle of all things, from the Monad came the indeterminate Duad^of matter fubjeSed to the caufeJAonad\from the Monad and the indeterminate Duad., Numbers from Numbers^ Points from Points., Lines ; from Lines., Superficies from Superficies Solids ^ front theje folid Bodies., vohofe Elements are four., Pire^
I Pater, Air, Earth ; of all which,tranf mutated, and totally changed, the World confifis.
CHAR II.
Of the World.
(c)''T^HE World,or comprehenfion of all things, X Pythagorcu called Kia-fji©-, from its order and beauty.
(b) The World was made by God, (c) in thoughr, not in time ; (d) He gave it a beginning from fire, and the fifth element : for there are five figures of folid bodies, which are termed Mathe¬ matical. Earth was made of a Cube, Fire of a PyramiSj Air of an Odaedre, Water of an Icoft- edre,the Sphere of the Univerfe of a Dodecaedre. In thefe Plato followeth Pythagorof.
(e) The World is corruptible in its own nature, for it is fenfible and corporeal ^ but it lhall never be corrupted, by reafon of the providence and prefervation of God.- (/) Fate is the caufe of the order ofthe Univerfe, and all Particulars; (g) Ne- ceflity encompaffeth the World.
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