Book II.

And this fafhion among the Arabians is mofl received ; neither is there’ any writing which is fo readily and elegantly joined to itfelf as the Arabick. You mufl know that angelical fpirits, feeing they are of a pure intellect, and . altogether incorporeal, are not marked with any marks or characters, or any other human fi’gns ; but we, not otherwife knowing their edence or quality, „do, from their names, ox works, or otherwife, devote and confecrate to them , figures and marks, by which we cannot any way compel them to us, but by which we rife up to them, as not to be known by fuch characters and figures ; and, firft of all, we do fet our fenfes, both inward and outward, upon them then, by a certain admiration of our reafon, we are induced to. a religious ve- neration of them d and then are wrapt with our whole mind into an ecftatical adoration ; and then with a wonderful belief, an undoubted hope, and quick- - ening love, calling upon them in fpirit and truth by true names and charac- ters, do obtain from them that virtue or power which we defire. .
G H A P. XVII.
THERE IS ANOTHER KIND OF CHARACTERS, OR MARKS OF SPIRITS^ WHICH ARE RECEIVED
ONLY BY REVELATION. .
THERE is another kind of character received by revelation only, which can be found out no another way ; the virtue of which characters is from the Deity revealing ; of whom there are fome fecret works breathing out a har- mony of fome divinity, or they are, as it were, fome certain agreements or compacts of a league between us and them. Of this kind there was a lign fhewed to Conjiantine , which was this, in hoc vince ; there was another re- • vealed to Antiochus in the figure of a Pentangle, which fignihes health -, for,
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