grant there were vnitie in the Angels which some call imperfect yet it cannot bee compared to that vnity which is in God Therefore God neuer spake of the Angels there when he spake of the Vnity Dici non potest quanto interstitio creator a creatura sit dissitus N. Cho. because it is repugnant that the self same thing should bee one in nature with God and his Angels there is so great disproportion betwixt the Creator and the creature Primasius an antient Father maketh a twofold distinction of penitence The one before Baptism Lib. de gratia at libero arburio which may bee tearmed a depriuation of Baptisme the other after Baptisme by which our sins are washt away There is a twofold Church the militant and triumphant in the one the faithfull dwell together with the wicked in the other the faithfull alone Man when he dieth hath a twofold receptacle his body passeth into the earth from whence it came his soule to heauen from whence originally it descended There is a twofould Book of life of vocation and election wee may haue our names blotted out of the first but not out of the last Euery dissolution of an argument consisteth in two by distinguishing by improouing By distinguishing when fallacies of words are detected through some ambiguity and construction the one by co-operation or conjunction the other by equiuocation many times through confusion of Synonimies diuersity of distinctions or lastly when the Principles bee quite differing from their Principiata as we call them Again by improouing two waies Either from the Principles themselues by shewing the absurdity of false Principles or from reason taken from authority or by conuincing the lesser authority with the greater which is frequent among Logicians Euery Figure is either angular or circular Those two appellations vsed by those Pythagoreans Vnum and Bonum may fitly bee called the two Names of God Hee is called One because he is the beginning of all things as also the vnity of each Number Good because hee is the end rest and absolute felicity of all things The water produceth two kindes of liuing things birds and fishes Euery point in the Line is twofold straight or circular according to Ptolomey There be two manifest operations in the Whole as touching celestiall bodies Motion and Illumination There be two motions one that is a mans owne proper the other borrowed There are two Starres beneficious vnto vs Iupiter and Venus The Art military consisteth of two things Men and munition Logick consisteth of two Inuention and judgement Two things are required in a souldier Strength and discipline Angels haue a twofold vision Matutine and Vespertine Christ's incarnation was necessary for two respects For the vnion betwixt the creature and the Creator for that it was needfull that God should become man for the full satisfaction of mans offense which by man alone could not be satisfied As there bee two Starres or Planets beneficious to vs so there are two maleficious Sol and Mercury There be two kindes of exhalations aride and humectall according to Plato's diuision of humours crasse and viscosius Wherein our Alchymists doo somewhat agree though some think the contrary for their Sulphur serueth in stead of that which is aride and dry their quick-siluer standeth for humid and viscosius euen as by red wine they signifie bloud Gold is of a twofold nature spirituall being astrall formall volatle corporall being materiall or fixe To the making of that which we call Aurum potabile two things are required The first is that the gold be volatle not able to be reduced to his first substance the second that the spirit of wine be added to this that both may be made volatle He that will be skilfull in this Art let him reade Paracelsus Book called Thesaurus Alchymistarum page 398. Of this drink he writeth thus in another place Tanta vis inest auro potabili vt non satis possit praedicari Maior enim vis confortandi non reperitur Ita vt per hoc remedium omnes morbi curentur inprimis y qui sunt in summo gradu cuiusmodi est contractura Besides Libauius in his Alchymistry hath written well touching this Subject Ficinus calleth the one Paradise celestiall the other supercelestiall Epist lib. 6. There is a twofold Paradise appointed for the twofold condition of man spirituall and temporall maintained by those Rabbines The one where that illuminant vision is that is viuificous which the School-men call the intuitiue knowledge of God which hapneth to the soule separated from the body the other wherein contemplation being not made is called illuminant which is made by connaturall Species and this is not beatificous The one commonly is called celestiall the other terrestiall There are also two tortures appointed for the punishment of the soule from their opinion the one placed in the highermost the other in the lowermost world Hell is taken two manner of wayes for the punishment and so the diuells carry hell continually about them for the place of punishment where the soules of the wicked are tormented According to Phylo there be two words two reasons two mindes one aboue vs as the exemplar of our reason the other our owne reason it selfe Naturall science is occupied about two either it handleth those things which commonly are in the things themselues or those things which seeme to bee but are not Some will haue the heauens composed of two elements that is from light and the water others from light and water permixed together The art called canonick consisting of harmonic vseth two kinds of instruments Monachorde Tetrachorde consisting of twenty strings called Nerui treated of by Ptolomie But this is found in Organes onely percussorie tensile inflatile That part of Astrologie called Meteoroscope handleth two things difference of sublimities distance of Starres There are two kindes of veynes which are as conduits by which our meat is conueyed into the body The one sort make way to the heart the other are deriued from thence They which goe to the heart are as ministers that they may conuey from the liuer to the heart imperfect bloud which the heart receiueth and turneth into that which is absolute and perfect The other which come from the heart prouide that the juice concocted by them may bee distributed through all the parts of the body CHAP. V. THREE THe Number of three is the first composite Number called a multitude of some by our Arithmeticians the ternarie his vertue and power is diffusiue among all creatures And it is a plentious Number because it is the fountaine and well-spring of all things productiue the beginning of all procession the continuance of all immutable substance as in our third Chapter before was touched By his multiplication with the vnity and dualtie he bringeth forth Tetraclys one of Pythagoras Principles beeing no other then the Idea of all things created conteyning one two and that which is infinite Whereto adde foure
whether such an instrument may bee made by art or no or whether those higher orbs so far placed from common view and vnderstanding might from such an instrument be liuely represented vnto vs. But they need not make a scruple as touching this thing seeing Archimedes mentioned in our-first Chapter did performe a far more illustrious piece of work-manship And there was in the time of Angelus Politian a Florentine named Laurentius who made a mechanicall Sphere of that admirable and stupendious work-manship Ipis lib. 4. Epis 8. quadrate after the fashion of a Pyramede consisting of three cubits in length his circle being made of gold brasle distinguished by so many colours that Politian who with his eies did behold the curious work-manship thereof hath nothing doubted to preferre it before the brazen globe of Archimedes See more of illustrious works done by Claudius Gallus in Possâ— vme Biblio Selec To. 2. cap. 1. as in the description you may reade Now if these men that seeme to cast doubts of euery thing they knowe not should bee acquainted but with the halfe of those singularities which the Geometricians and Mathematicians of our time beyond the practice of those Antients haue contriued I suppose they would wonder more For to shew by art what a clock it is in euery seuerall region or countrie according to each seuerall houre of the day what houre of our day is made at all times of the yeere to measure at an inch the height of the mountaine Caucasus to make an artificiall sayle by whose help the wind blowing a gouernour or a Pilot may direct his ship either on the right side or on the left to make a gallie cut the seas without winde or oares by a quadrant astronomicall to measure the heauen earth sea yea hell it selfe I thinke it cannot be done without much wondring And yet there are seuerall bookes written at this day though not all as yet published for the performance of these hie remote and impenetrable mysteries cited by Possevine and others â—â—blio selec to 1. lib. 9. cap. 13. It is true therefore which one saith Scientia nullum inimicum habet nisi ignorantem But to our Numbers againe There were seuen sects of the Iews cited by Niceta Sadduces Scribes Pharises Hemerobaptists Nazarites Essens Herodians There be seuen orbs of the Planets wherein Plato hath erred by making the Moone to be sited aboue the Sun contrary to the opinion of Ptolomy and Regiomontanus who place the Sunne in the middest of those Planets Now if Venus and Mercurie were beneath the Sunne as Plato imagineth it would follow that the Sun would lose his light from the density of those bodies The like would be found in the interposition of the Moon betwixt the Sun our sight which sauoureth of much absurdity Though therfore Plato were a great Philosopher yet he was but a mean Astrologer As nature to the findingout of those secret treasures hid in the earth hath 7 proper operations as distillatioÌ„s euaporations sublimations exhaltations circulations rectifications cohobations portentuous names me thinks so our Spagyricks or Chymicks haue as many mo for the right ordering and preparing of their bituminous fuliginous oleaginous sulphureous sufflaminous ebullious carbonarious furnaces to make our Epithetons answerable Wherefore it is said by one of them Io. Querceta tetâ—as grauis aâ—fect cap. 24. Non minus baecars suis reuerberatorys surnis indiget acmonte Æthna et perpetuas stammas expirantibus natura Ioseph Castiliensis one of the best Rabbines in his booke called The Garden of Nuttes giueth these seuen titles to hell Gehenna the gates of hell the shadow of death the well of destruction the scumme of darknes perdition pit Wherefore he concludeth thus Haec captiuitas est vt peccata noxiorum maneant vt iustos aqua comitentur praemia et iniquos debita sequantur vitiorum tormenta That incomparable Secretarie of nature Plynie writeth of a tree that did beare at one time seuen kinde of different fruites One bough carried apples an other nuttes others barbaries grapes figges peares pomegranates but he was too good to liue long Baptista Porta a Neopolitan in his booke touching naturall Magie describeth a tree far beyond the other He that means to draw the picture of a Lubber must obserue these 7 properties belonging to him In height he must be the proportion of two Pigmies In breadth the thicknes of 2 bacon-hogs Of presumption a giant Of power a gnat He must be Apishly witted Knauishly manered Crabbedly fauoured and he sticketh not to call him the delicacies of the garden But I dare not credit him they are so prodigious things that hee writeth In antient times they did vse an harp consisting of seuen tones called Heptatonon of which Terpander a Greeke Poet writeth in these verses At nos quadrisonis instantes saepè camoenis Inde nouoseythara heptanonâ— celebrabimus hymnâ—s There is a seuenfold Chariot of charitie handled elegantly and succinctly by that learned Platonick Marcilius Ficinus Epis lib. 2. There are seuen famous hills about the City of Rome Capitolinus or Tarpeius so named from the Capitole of Iupiter Palatinus from Pallantes Euanders sonne killed by Turnus and buried there Quirinalis from Quirinus Romulus whose Temple standeth there Auentinus from Auentine King of Albania Caelius from a Tuscan Captaine bearing that name Viminalis from a wood of vines growing there Exquilinus from the vessels or fragments of Tributes dispersed in that place CHAP. X. EIGHT ALL Numbers being doubled must needs be of great efficacy it being so almost in euery other thing Therefore this is cald a solid Number being created from duplication of foure euen as foure is made of two Macrobius likeneth it to Stereon made after the form of a Die which is called a square figure Foure being doubled and made eight it makes two quadra-simileâ— which with their altitude imposed vpon them make a form of a Cube which is no other than a solid body So that the Geometricians doo hold that twice two make foure and twice foure making eight make a double solid body as well as three times three which is nine or three times nine making 27 in the whole do make the other cube a solid body Wherefore this Number and the seuenth because they are resembled to perfect and compleated men full of yeers worthy to gouern a Common-wealth haue been thought worthy by those Antients to make the soule of the world perfect and correspondent His extendure is not the greatest nor the least There bee eight Sphears allowed by Plato and Aristotle Macrobius subscribeth vnto them and he seemeth to mee to gather the excellency of this Number from those eight Our later Wits haue found out two others mentioned before The last of these according to the probable opinion of Astrologers is moued from the East into the West by a diurnall motion The ninth added to those eight is volued with the tenth and by his owne motion contrariwise
truth diligence That which the Paracelsians call Antimonie hath twelue excellent preseruatiues The first is called Panchreston helping many euill affections Pantagogon fit to purge all kinde of humors Theodoretum There be thirteene mathematicall instruments cited by Posse Biblio Selec To. 2. cap. 9. for his diuine help 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for his efficacie in preseruing of health Soterion an wholsome medicament Lysippyreton extinguishing all kinde of hot agues Theodoton a remedy giuen vs from God Theopempton sent from God Panareton endued with all kinde of vertue Polychreston good for many things Isochryson which is to be equalled with gold Lysiponon mitigating all kinde of paine and griefe There be 18 kindes of pthongs in musick treated of by Prolomy â—uchde and others There bee fourteene externe chanels or passages in mans head according to some Anatomists Vnder the seuenteene those seuenteene humors mentioned by Cardan may be represented Zoroastres dwelt in the wildernesse twenty yeeres Moses in his booke of Genesis instructed from God himselfe entreateth of twenty two high and profound poynts such as were neuer handled by any Phylosopher Iew or Gentile Polidor Virgil maketh mention of twenty seuerall nations which worshipped twenty strange gods The beginning of the world God principles of humane things that we call Chaos Deep darknes waters Arid hearbes plants Sunne Moone Starres beastes man the soule intelligent Angels Deluge Gyants Towre of Babel diuision of Tongues and so forth All these things and much more he hath written in such a stile and character that those antient Hebrewes Greekes and Latines L b. 1. cap. 1. haue wond ed at his writing So that some haue not sticked to call him Gods Secretary taking pen in hand to write by his appoyntment There are twenty two Hebrew Letters according to the Number of those Latine Elements There be twenty foure propheticall books called Canonicall according to the Greeke Alphabet Twenty foure Elders are mentioned in the Apocalypse There were twenty foure famous Physicians of Arabia whose names are these alphabetically set downe in this wise Aboal Achme sonne to Abraham Agazo Asal Albumazar Albuer Ammuram Anicenna Auerrois Auenzoar Ebezenzar Elabin Hunim Hamech Elengezar Haly Abbas Saint Hierom affirmes that the Hebrewes made them a Cytharen consisting of 24 strings to the forme of Δ. Epist ad Darda de instru music Haly sonne of Abbas Isaac Abenamaram Mesne Rabi Razis Sabor sonne of Zuzer King of Medoram Serapio Xirase King of Med. It seemeth by this that Physick was in great request in those times seeing Kings were not onely Patrones but chiefe professors of that Æsculapian Science which now by vnskilfull Empiricks and methodians is taken in hand to the great reproach of that worthy and learned study Out of the Text of Scripture and Denuis Areopagite as also from some School-men it will easily be proued that hell hath twenty foure seuerall and distinct punishments Heat of fire a gnashing of teeth darknes smoke weeping sadnesse aspect of diuels crying ariditie thirst sulphureous smell the worm of conscience bands prison fear grief shame enuy rancor want of diuine vision the taking away all hope of redeÌ„ption Andra. Lau. Anato lib. 5. cap. 8. proteruous phantasie mad concupiscence irascible furie The twenty fift Number is famous for this in that there bee so many interne holes or creuises in the head of a man according to the probable computation of some Anatomists The twenty seuenth is a solid Nùber consisting of three times nine spoken of before vnder which progression Huga de S. Victore concludeth the quaterne faculties of the soule The thirtith Number is not without some secret vertue being a triplication of the denarie neither doth it want his signification There are 30 Ornaments required in a faire Virgin expressed elegantly in verse by Cornigerus which were found in Helena of Troy Silua nuptial.pagina 182. because in the space of thirty dayes the Sunne runneth his course through the twelue parts of the Zodiack touched before in this Chapter His extendure is famous for those thirty antient Ciuill Lawyers whose bookes are mentioned in the Pandects of Iustinian the Emperor Their seuerall names are also recorded by that excellent Scholar and Latinist Angelus Politian There bee thirty two teeth in a mans head by consent of all Anatomists on both cheekes equally diuided But it is strange that most men should haue so many and others so few Some write that Enripheus Cyrenens and Phirrus that was King of Epirontes Epis lib 5. Epis 11. had but one tooth in their vppermost jawe and that Direphna daughter to Mithridate wanted both rowes of teeth An Lau. Anato lib. 5. cap. 12. In Hercules and others a threefold chest was found But this was beyond the ordinary course of nature The Zodiack hath thirty fiue burdens called in Latine Gestamina But there is no Number more famous in the Scripture then the fortith Number God made the raine to fall forty dayes together on the earth Christ made the raigne of our saluation to abide forty houres together vpon the earth after his Passion M. Vigerius de cha christia according to the Symbole of that learned Cardinall Moses tooke the Law vpon mount Sina for forty dayes Christ in forty houres went away Conqueror ouer heauen earth and hell Helias fed with one morsell of bread came in forty dayes to the Mount of Oreb Christ fed with the Martyrdome of his Crosse after forty houres expired came from darknes to life againe Christ againe did fast forty dayes in the desart and ouercame Satan Now for the further explaining of this some hold that the soule of Christ remained separated from his body forty houres taking them from three dayes For he suffered about the vernall Equinoct that is at that time when the dayes and nights are of one length and about the middle of the day he let goe his spirit So that hee died six houres before the Sunne went downe because in the time of the Equinoctiall if the day haue twelue houres the middle of the day hath six before Sunne-set He was buried about the completorie houre that is about the going downe of the Sunne He staied in his Sepulcher an whole night going before the Sabbath day and the whole day of the Sabbath which contayne in them twenty foure houres In the morning going before the Dominicall day which was the third day of his death he rose againe The morning goeth for two houres before the Sunne riseth So that wee must beleeue his body remained in the graue on that third day for the space of tenne houres Now six houres of the day of his death and twenty foure of the whole Sabbath day make full thirty Adde tenne houres more of the night following the third day and they make vp iust fotty Therefore the soule of Christ was separated from his body for the space of forty houres that is six before his buriall and after that