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up all knowledge : firfi, it fills up every firnple progrefs of numbers with four terms, viz. with one, two, three, and four, confiituting the number ten. It fills up every difference of numbers : the firfi even, and containing the firfl odd in it. It hath in mufic, diatelferon — the grace of the fourth voice ; alfo it contains the inftrumen'; of four firings ; and a Pythagorian diagram, whereby are found out firfi of all mufical tunes, and all harmony of mufic : 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 confonancy is limited within the bounds of the number four. It doth alfo contain the whole of Mathematics in four terms, viz. point, line , fuperfices, and profundity. It comprehends all Nature in four terms, viz. fub fiance, quality, quantity, and motion ; alfo all natural philofophy, in which are the feminary virtues of Nature, the natural fpringing, the growing form, and the compofitum. Alfo metaphyfics is comprehended in four bounds, viz. being , effence , virtue , and ad ion. Moral philofophy is comprehended with four virtues, viz. prudence , j up ice , fortitude , and te7iiperance. It hath alfo the power of jufiice : hence a four-fold law— of providence , from God ; fatal , from the foul of the world ; of Nature , from Heaven ; oi prudence, from man. There are alfo four judiciary powers in all things being, viz. the intelletfi, difeipline, opinion, and fenfe. Alfo, there are four rivers of Paradife. Four Gofpels, received from four Evangelifts, throughout the whole Church. The Hebrews received the chiefeft name of God written with four letters. Alfo, the Egyptians, Arabians, Per- fians, Magicians, Mahometans, Grecians, Tufcans, and Latins, write the name of God with four letters, viz. thus — Thet, Alla, Sire, Orfi, Abdi, deog, Efar, Deus. Hence the Lacedemonians were wont to paint Jupiter with four wings. Hence, alfo, in Orpheus’s Divinity, it is faid that Neptune’s cha- riots are drawn with four horfes. There are alfo four kinds of divine furies, proceeding from feveral deities, viz. from the Mufes, Dionyfius, Apollo, and Venus. Alfo, the Prophet Ezekiel faw four beafts by the river Chobar, and four chernbims in four wheels. Alfo, in Daniel, four great beafis did afeend
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from the fea *, and four winds did fight. And in the Revelations, four beafts were full of eyes, before and behind, {landing round about the throne of God 5 and four angels, to whom was given power to hurt the earth and the fea, did Hand upon the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds, that they ftiould not blow upon the earth, nor upon the fea, nor upon any tree.
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