in earnest 2 He neuer speaketh ill 3 He neuer speaketh but vpon good cause is necessarie for three respects To know the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to prohibite vnapt times of purging phlebotomizing and giuing of physick There are three things needefull to bee knowne in foretelling The initiall houre the state of the heauens or their position vnto a certain houre the certaine effects of the heauens and Starres The earth hath three appellations animall vegetall minerall It hath three vertues or properties It is the matter whereby wee were first created the mother of all things the truest physick as touching our restauration and conseruation Hee that knoweth himselfe knoweth all things in himselfe God vnto whose likenes hee was made the world whose image hee beareth all the creatures with whom hee symbolizeth Mans dignity consisteth in three things In that God made him a reasonable creature innocent in his life potent in his dominion Man hath a threefold eie Of the flesh whereby hee seeth the world of reason whereby hee seeth his minde of contemplation whereby hee seeth God In one that shall worthily occupie the Pulpit are required these three things Meet to teach wherein are required Grauitie Learning Eloquence As in the Diuinity there is one essence and three persons So in Christ there is one Person and three essences his Deitie his soule and flesh Christs natiuitie is threefold diuine humane of his owne accord the first from his Father the second by his Mother the last by his will There appeared his benignitie and humanity at his natiuity from a threefold receptacle From the bosome of his Father wherein hee lay hid from the shadow of the Law wherein he was figured from the belly of his mother wherein hee was formed His vnion is threefold his deitie with the soule his deitie with the flesh his soule with the flesh Meet to reproue wherein are required Courage Iudgement His first vnion remained still the third was separated vpon the Crosse Christ lay in his graue 3 dayes Some will haue his soule to remaine three dayes in hell Philosophie is diuided into 3 partes physicall logicall morall The action of the soule is threefold By vegetating to bee existing by vnderstanding to be good by reasoning Meet to conuince wherein are required Arts Memorie Knowledge to be excellent good Her vegetable parts are 3 generatiue for the conseruation of their Species augmentatiue for the conseruation of her indiuiduous nutritiue for the perfection of her subiect There is a threefold liberty of free will One is of naure the other of grace the third of glory He that wil be a teller of true dreames must bee endued with these three qualities We are bound to flie hereticks for three causes Because they are excōmunicated and cut off from the body of the Church Because communicating with them we are made partakers of their idolatrie Because wee tempt God to make vs like vnto them He must haue a pure phantasticall spirit apt to prophecie hee must vse frequent meditation and moderate diet There be 3 kindes of learners one that vnderstandeth things of himself the other that harkens to things propounded the last that neither vnderstandeth himself nor will listen to others instructing And this is the worst of all saith Hesiodus Man vseth to dreame three manner of waies by impulsion from aboue First hee can foretell that hee hath some cognation with some celestiall bodie secondly that the aire is full of immortall creatures in which certaine sparkles of noted truth are apparant thirdly that Angels or some supernall powers speake familiarly with him And it is euen a note of true foretelling when the soule is neere departed out of the body There are three conditions of vertue the remouing of temptation multiplication of good workes delight in doing well There bee three kindes of triumphs Humility hath these three excellent properties 1 Shee thinketh no booke so bad but hath some good lesson in it 2 Shee despiseth none of whom shee may learn 3 Shee scorneth none of whom shee hath learned True when as for a mans merits a crowne or garland is giuen him by mutuall consent of the citizens most ample when hee is aduanced to dignity for his vertue most shamefull when he riseth higher through the losse or disgrace of other men All kinde of Cometographie consisteth in three treated of by Mizaldus with much learning and elegancie All kinde of Architecture is tried three manner of waies by the touch-stone by the hammer by the fire Euery modulation is threefold Assumption coniunction vse The art perspectiue putteth vs in minde of a tripled nature intellectuall animall corporeall Memorie consisteth chiefly in three partition common places images Euery peroration consisteth of three Enumeration indignation miseration That which wee call the leprosie is threefold pale white red from Saint Hieromes distinction Diuels are endued with a triple sagacitie Subtiltie of nature by their vespertine knowledge True genealogie consisteth in these three things 1 In the authority of a faithfull and autentique Writer 2 In the neere and aptest pronunciation of each regiō 3 In the site and opportunity of the place vnderstanding naturall things present Experience of time vnderstanding naturall things future Reuelation of superior spirits knowing things that bee voluntary Among the damned three things beare rule Proteruious phantasie mad concupiscence iracundious furie There be three forces in creatures animall naturall vitall The soule of man consisteth in three The minde reason idoll which some call phantasie or imagination There are three faculties of the soule by which we resemble the Image of the Deity The intellect of minde called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 taken for the reasonable facultie The meanes whereby it discerneth all things which is compounded of common sense imagination and memory The rationall part which enquireth the causes and effects of things which can neither deceiue not bee deceiued as long it attendeth her office That part of Philosophie we call Metaphysicall consisteth in three things First it comprehendeth God next those mindes se-ioyned from the body last the multiplications beginnings of all kinde of doctrine by the steppes of nature called Axiomata There are three things which are euery where and no where according to Porphirie God vnderstanding the soule There is a threefold ladder of nature wherein three regions of triplicity and in euery of them one state of abstraction is considered The first is the obiect transparant and the exterior phantasie The second is the interior sense phantasie and brutish iudgement The third humane iudgement reason and vnderstanding of all which the minde is Lady and Mistresse There bee three principall meanes or wayes whereby wisdome or the knowledge of all things hath beene deriued vnto vs. The first anon after the creation of the world by tradition dispersed through a great many of nations which if it had not beene violated would haue beene found more profitable vnto mankinde The second by those
Philosophers who searched curiously after the nature and causes of things The third hath lightned all kinde of nations and countries with his claritie dispersing the mist of naturall reason and Philosophie by his sunne-shining beames which is worthy the name of wisdome because it commeth from the fountaine of wisdome conteyned in the old and new Testament Those diuine personalities are three in Number and haue diuerse operations The power of the Father producing all things giuing to euery man his vnity The wisdome of the Sonne disposing all things vniting and copulating them together The loue of the holy Ghost conuerting all things to GOD tying the whole worke to his Maker by the band of charitie There are three faculties of the body One is Animall which from the braine passeth vnto the nerues as through certaine pipes transmitting sense and motion vnto all the parts of the body and nourishing the vnderstanding The other is vitall which from the heart vnto the arteries as by certaine chanells giueth life vnto the whole body The last is naturall which from the liuer to the veines administreth sustenance to all the parts of the body The preparation of solarie tincture spoken of much by those Paracelsians consisteth in three things In expurging renouating restoring the member affected Their philosophicall Mercurie is composed three manner of waies By sublimation precipitation distillation There were three kindes of musick much esteemed among the Antients Lydian Dorian Phrygian There are three things impossible to bee done To take from Iupiter his thunderbolt from Hercules his club from Homer his verse There is good cheere commonly at these three meales A hunters breakfast A lawyers dinner A friers drinking Cheese hath three good properties He that eateth enough of it shall neuer looke old for hee shall die whilst hee is young Hee shall not bee robbed in the night for hee shall neuer lin barking and coughing all night long Hee shall not bee bitten with a dog for he shall alwaies goe with a staffe in his hand Among the ciuill Lawyers there is a threefold brotherhood Vterinus by one Mother Germanus both by Father and Mother Patruelis by the Fathers side CHAP. VI. FOVRE SOme Numbers beare that soueraignty that they neither beget nor are begotten others beget and are begotten being the fourth Number which Pythagoras calls The fountain of nature Macrobius The jugall or conjunctatiue Number whose reasons are as follow For foure is made of two doubled it makes eight and so by duplications it will arise in the end to that which is infinite It is properly belonging to the terne Number to haue a middle place betwixt two summities or extremes whereby he is yoked mentioned in the former Chapter But the quaterne Number possesseth two medieties which is no other then a type of the worlds indissoluble creation consisting of foure elements For whereas there is in euery element two distinct qualities God hath so distributed to euery one of two one of these that hee hath made a federall knot or coniugation betwixt them First the earth in drie and cold the water is cold and moyst yet these two first elements although they haue contrary qualities in them ioyned to the other two they make a conuenient and temperant harmony according to their seuerall humors set downe in these verses mentioned by Themistius Terrapars terras pars vndea conspicit vndas Aethera dein aether vis ignea perspicit ignes Pax pacem monstrat litem lis aspera sentit Which hath caused Heraclitus to hold that All things are made by a certaine kind of disagreement Indeed of themselues they disagree but co-united to others by a secret commixtion or conglutination in nature they make no small concordance And this is according to Plate's rule whom Macrobius doubteth not to call Arcanum veritatis auerring that those things are firmely vnited together when as an interjected kinde of mediocritie maketh the cōplement the stronger but when as the medietie is doubled as in this Number you may finde those extimous things are not onely tenaciously but indissolubely tied and linked together These are the chiefest of Macrobius reasons to proue the efficacie of this Number But our Pythagoreans they proue the excellency of it by a kinde of paritie and imparitie this way One and three say they makes foure foure and fiue makes nine seuen and nine makes sixteene sixteene and nine makes twenty fiue So that all such kinde of Numbers that are so collected are found to bee quadrangular The Geometricians call these Gnomones Arithmeticians vnequall Numbers for that ioyned to others in order they will alwaies retaine the forme of the quadrant Number This Number seemeth therefore to bee a Number of perfection because when a man is worthy of some excellent title they say He is quadratus homo that is a man euery way perfect and compleat And it hath great affinity with the ternarie So that out of the foure elements and their 3 Interstitia to vse Macrobius word there is a finall and absolute commixtion of all kinde of bodies That as by the ternary Number there is a copulation made of euery thing so by the quaterne they are made perfect This is that Pythagoras calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 specified before comming so neere to the perfection of the soule that the Antients were wont by it to make them a religious kinde of oath in this wise Iuro tibi per eum qui dat animae nostrae quaternarium numerum The first therefore of his extendure shall bee the foure elements the foure qualities of the soule the foure humors of the body the foure seasons of the yeere which this Number doth liuely represent Wee will proceed with others There be foure Cardinall vertues foure Euangelists foure Patriarks foure Oecumenicall Synodes foure chiefe Doctors of the Church foure Windes Euery site of a countrey is distinguished foure manner of waies By parallels angles positure of the Eccliptick and of the Sunne All these haue different qualities of humors and inclinations He that will know these configurations must acknowledge there be eight Windes as wel as foure according to P. Virgils distinction Lib. 1. cap. 27. according to their signes answerable to foure which do shew the singularitie of this Number In the Signifer there are foure triquetrall configurations The first is from the North conteyning Africk subiect to Borrolybicus and is gouerned of Iupiter and Mars The second is Austrisolane in the rising called Brumall subiect to Notapeliotes gouerned of Venus Saturn The third is mixed of Aquilo and subsolane in the rising solstitiall subiect to Borrapeliotis he is chiefly gouerned by Saturne and hath Iupiter for an helping companion The last mixed of Auster and Africk in the going downe brumall hee is gouerned by Iupiter and hath Venus for an helper So that the earth is diuided into foure quadrants according to the triangled Number Trigonum est spirituum astrorum transmutatio quadruplex iuxta numerum elementorum
meaning that euery where while need requireth he runneth or is present to giue vs assistance Or as others expound it from burning that hee will burne the dwelling of the wicked when hee is said to bee a consuming fire vnto them according to Gregorie the Great Wee giue to Angels foure attributes Subtilty of essence perspicacitie of vnderstanding facultie of free will personall discretion In Angels there be foure dignities Dignity of creation grace of confirmation loue of creation vision of the Diuinity There be foure kinde of metals which participate with the foure elements There were 4 things in vse among the old Romanes which made them famous 1 They did vsually fight with the enemie in their own territories as in Africa not at home 2 They endeuored to keepe their souldiers in subiection 3 Their money and troupes of horse men were alwaies ready 4 Their forces by sea were greatly respected Earthly lead and siluer waterie quick-siluer ayerie copper and brasse fierie gold and iron In the soule vnderstanding resembleth fire reason the ayre imagination the water sense the earth Our sight also is fierie hearing aierie smell and taste is referred vnto the water our touching is earthie alwaies dealing with those crassious bodies Now our actions and operations depend of those foure elements A slow motion and solid prefigureth the earth the water signifieth feare sluggishnes and one that is negligent the ayre alacritie friendly manners the fire an acute vehement or angrie passion Whatsoeuer man can thinke vpon foure manner of waies God is He createth euery thing he considerateth of them created he loueth them because hee created them hee maintaineth and sustayneth them The soule of man is a foure fold Number substantiall vniforme conuersiue to her selfe rationall Euery noble soule hath a fourefold operation One diuine the other intellectuall rationall and animall It hath a diuine operatition by the image of diuine proprietie intellectuall by formality of her participation with intelligences rationall by the perfection of her proper essentialitie Animall or naturall by her communion with the body The nutritiue part of the soule hath foure coadjutors Attractiue which taketh in necessaries vnto nutriment Digestiue which separateth the good from the bad Retentiue There are 4 kingly vertues required in 〈◊〉 Wit Experience Prudence Loue of their common wealth which keepeth the meat so long in one place vntill it be altered or concocted Expulsiue which expelleth that which is superfluous in the nutriment The soule by vnderstanding knoweth all things foure manner of waies God which is aboue her her selfe within her selfe the Angels neere her selfe and whatsoeuer is conteyned in the whole Vniuerse beneath her selfe Powers cognitiue are considered by foure differences of vertue intellectiue There are foure kinds of diuine furie loue poefie prophesie mystery All which you may find in Ficuius Episilib 11. The first is of nature diuided into agent and patient The second is of the obiect diuiding the vnderstanding into speculatiue and practiue The third of dignity diuiding reason in that part which is superiour and inferior The fourth is of comparison to the act diuiding the vnderstanding into habit and action That which the Philosopher calls force mouing is quadruple imperatiue conciliatiue affectiue or conciliatiue and affectiue The first is Synderesis some will haue it to be Liberum Arbitrium The second is reason The third is will naturall There be 4 notable qualities required in a Captaine That he bee valiâ—nt wise nimble eloquent and deliberatiue The fourth is vnderstanding practick There bee foure sorts of true dreames The first is betweene sleeping and waking The second that which one seeth of another The third whose interpretation in the night time is vnfolded vnto the dreamer The fourth that is rehearsed to him that dreameth He that meaneth to gaine any certainty forth of Oracles must obserue these foure precepts He must vse abstinence There are 4 properties of a good wife To bee well borne to bee well formed to be well moralized to bee well dowred which defendeth him against the encountrings of diuels and conioyneth him to God He must obserue temperancie which strengthens health Hee must abandon superfluous things He must be respectiue of the meat he eateth For as One saith vsus siccorum ciborum et corpus crassum iciunijs extenuatum et facile permeabilem spiritum humanum purum et potentem reddit They therefore that drench their bodies with much drinke their soules with a plethorie of noxious cogitations There are 4 things desired of all men but neuer or seldome obteined A sober maid assured of looke and minde can neuer dreame true dreames nor see heauenly visions nor haue any thing to doe with the interpretation of experienced Oracles For it will euer be a Maxime Sicca anima sapientissima All kinde of variation in musick consists of foure kindes systeme loue concent and modulation There be foure things which haue an admirable power in nature The stone called Heraclius those plants called Cychoreus Scorpiarius Heliotropium I here be foure other things as admirable A sad young man not giuen to lust wast A husband true not â—elous and vnkind A constant wife not wilfull wise but chaste The loadstone the bloud of a goat the bunch that is vpon the forehead of a fold the stones of a Castor Comets presage the death of Princes and great Personages for foure causes which are all particularly handled by Myzaldus In euery coeâ—licall signification or prediction as touching comets foure things must be obserued according to Ptolomie Place time manner quality Bacchilides saith that foure things are required in a banquet Moderate preparation of Bread and Wine pleasing conference true beneuolence of the guests good Wine wherein old men take great delight Comet Lâ—b 2. cap. 4. There were foure properties in Caesar which made him renowned through all the world Labour in the dispatch of his businesse fortitude The strength of France consisteth in these foure things First that the States obserue well their King That they abound in riches That they grow cunning and exercised in the warre That the Cities Townes and Castles standing neere the Frontiers beo well peopled and made strong Claud us Sisellius De monar Galliae L. 2. in the hazarding of himselfe industrie in doing celeritie in executing To keepe an house foure things are needfull To feede well to feede enough to cloath to till the ground according to M. Cato Those Alchymists or Paracelsians in refining of gold vse foure organes or instruments Solution or putrefaction whereby gold is brought to his first matter Sublimation by whose helpe the spirit soule tincture strength and vertue lying hid in the gold are drawne forth and segregated Caloination or physicall digestion by which the spirit and soule with the body is made an vnion so that out of the three parts there is an vnity made of the whole Fixation by which those three partes distinguished are
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
quatuor vnumquâ—dque regit ac durat ducentos annos vt cumtrigonum igneum incipit supernae planetae suam coniunctionem semper habent in ignto signo donec trigonum hoc durabit Sâ—c de reliqais Paracelsus The breadth is diuided by the line of the Germane sea from the sea Herculean led vnto the gulfe called Isicus and afterwards to the East of the Promontorie back wards which line separateth the North part from the South But the line from the gulfe of Arabia led through the Aegean sea the puddle of Pontus and Meotides parteth the East and the West So that there are foure quadrants according to the trigonous Number the first called Celtick the second the South part of Asia the third the North part of Asia the fourth the West part of Aethiopia according to the opinion of Ptolomie a most diligent Interpreter of the heauens and their motions Now although among the Antients there was but a threefold diuision of the earth contayning foure quadrants yet in desciphring her different qualities site temperature signes wee see how needfull the vse of Numbring is By later inuention another part of the world is found out which will make this Number more compleat then euer it was There are 4 properties of speaking belonging to 4 seuerall kingdomes expressed thus in Latine Galls cantant Itali caprizant Germani vlulant Angli iubilant There bee foure animall faculties in mans body according to Plato's dimension Attractiue retentiue alteratiue expulsiue Vertues of those heauenly motions and force of the Starres are knowne foure manner of waies By the coldnes or moysture of the earth by the temperature of the heauens by the coniunction of the elements by the secret power of hearbes plants stones and metals wherein the facultie of those Paracelsians chiefly consisteth There is a quadripartite partition of creatures in Plato For God looking back to the Idea of his minde hath produced foure kind of liuing things Those which he calleth lesser Gods or heauenly mindes ayerie creatures aquatill and terrestriall Death is terrible to 4 sorts of men 1 To infidels that look for no resurrection 2 To the welthy and rich man 3 To them that neuer tasted of the Crosse 4 To them that are strong and youthfull Aristotle in his booke Degeneratione animalium if he be soundly vnderstood doth not altogether disagree in this point There be foure principall parts in mans body Animall vegetall sensitiue rationall There be foure instruments of motion spirits first sinnewes next muscles or the instrumentall parts of the back the whole body last There be foure Crises which Physicians ought not to be ignorant of Simple deficient euill imperfect and euill both A Physician ought to be skilled in foure things whereby hee may know those Crises the better The foure seasons of each disease the beginning increment declination vigor Whereto if he adde the inspection of the vrine I dare assure him an excellent Physician For of those diseases which happen in the liuer and betwixt the veines there is no certaine signe to be had but from the vrine Which is no other then an excrement of bloud in the hollow veine brought through the reynes and vrinarie passages into the bladder Foure things must be considered in the vrine There be 4 seasons or discrimined times touching the frame of the infant in the mothers bellie handled by Leuinus Lemnius Lib. de miranatu 4. cap. 23. consistencie heat quantitie contents The good vrine will bee knowne by these foure properties If it be mediocrous of substance answerable to the portion which it receiueth of a subrufe and subflauous colour hauing his sediment white light equall In a captaine there are foure things required knowledge experience authoritie fortune In warre foure things must be had money weapons store of prouision and artillery There be foure parts of diuine Philosophy The first entreateth of God according to the worke of his vocation or predestination the second of God There bee 4 things which driue away a friend without recouerie Eccles 22. To blaspheme him to disdain him to open his secrets to wound him traiterously as far as his power shineth in the effect of his creation the third of God as far as his wisdome surmounteth in the worke of our Redemption the fourth of God as far as his goodnes or clemencie shineth in the worke of our glorification There were foure Riuers compassing Paradise shewing the fertility of that place Ganges Tygris Euphrates Nilus There be foure lawes bearing the names of foure Gods Saturnian Iouian Fatall Adrastian Eudoxus mentioned before giueth to euery planet besides the Sunne and Moone foure spheares The first causeth diurnall motion the second the motion of longitude vnder the Zodiack the third Ecclyptica linea est qua media Zâ—diacâ— latitudinem diuidit ita vt gradus sint virinque sex Zodiacus gradus 12. latus conâ—inet Sub Ecclyptica linea ebliqua moue ur Luna Epâ—â—ycius quid sit vide Peâ—rum Aliâ—ce sem de sphara the motion of latitude as it declines from the Ecclyptick or toward the South and North the fourth which letteth that the planet goeth not but according to her meanes of latitude in the Zodiack and that shee may not reach to the poles of the Zodiack For as the Zodiack goeth by the poles of the third sphere so the third sphere deferring the planet according to the motion of latitude passeth through the poles of the Zodiack Lest therefore according to the probable opinion of Astrologers the third sphear may bring the planet beyond the Zodiack there is giuen a fourth which driueth her towards the Ecclyptick whose poles Aristotle if we beleeue Eudoxus assigneth not There are foure kindes of rights naturall ciuill nationall militarie Euery element hath foure properties The fire is hot lucid penetrating subtile in the greatest degree The ayre humid Time may be ill spent in learning 4 manner of wayes 1 If a man preferre Appendices before the substance of things 2 If a man confound arts without order 3 If a man reade all things and will be euery where 4 If a man reade or practise that which is not agreeable to his profession transparant subtile light in the lesser The water is cold white thick ponderous in the same The earth is drie black thick and waighty in the greatest God hath foure excellent attributes he is infinite incomprehensible incircumscriptible eternall Gods name is expressed vnto vs in foure Hebrew letters Mem Zade Pe Sade which some Rabbines appropriate to Dauids Kingdome And it is written so because this Number is euen and perfect and God is said to haue no imperfection in him Besides the Persians doe write the name of God with foure letters signifying the perfection of his diuinity The Wisards of Persia called Magi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Arabes Alla the Assyrians Adad the Ægyptians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is from running
contemplatiue life according to Saturn politick and practick according to Iupiter angry and ambitious according to Mars concupiscible and voluptuous according to Venus vegetable and stupidous according to Mercury Hee must also be acquainted with these fiue frequent in Plato's Works Eus idean alterum status motus interpreted at large by Ficinus Our election standeth firm vnto vs for fiue special reasons following The first is the euerlasting and immutable decree of God before the world was created made as touching the liberation and reconciliation of all mankinde The second is the opening of this decree by his promise made vnto Adam Abraham Rom. 11 and the rest of the Patriarchs as touching the benediction to come The third is the consideration of the will of God teuealed vnto vs by his promise The fourth is the commandement of God from heauen that wee should beleeue in his Sonne Iohn 6 Rom. 8 1 Cor. 5 1 Thes 2 Ficinus holds there be fiue kind of lights In God in Angels in reason in the spirit in the body out of these words This is my well-beloued Sonne and so forth The last is the holy Ghost confirming and making vs sure that we are the chosen sonnes of God The holy Trinity includeth in his essence fiue things Vnity simplicity immensity eternity in commutability but holding that God is Immensus I mean not that there is in him any quantity of dimension but of vertue for it is a Theologicall Rule which will ouerthrowe their Popish reall presence Non est vbique Deus mole corporis sed prasentiâ Maiestatis And according to this immensity God is infinite incomprehensible There are fiue things which we ought not â—o put confidence in 1 Beauty which is fraile 2 Health which is vncertain 3 Life which is short 4 Honor which is transitory 5 Pleasure which is mixed with sorrow incircumscriptible eternall vnchangeable to make vp the fift Number There be fiue notions of God Paternity Filiation procession innascibility common spiration Whatsoeuer man can think-vpon fiue manner of waies God is Hee is the most perfect most worthy most noble most excellent most mighty Hee that will dispose the conception of his minde to others by way of teaching must doo it fiue manner of waies First hee must prosecute that matter or subject hee takes in hand Secondly hee must cleerly and perspicuously propound it to his hearers Thirdly hee must garnish it with some ornaments of discourse fitting time and place Fourthly he must confute that which is objected in his way Fiftly he must reduce all things into order by an apt kinde of partition repetition epitomizing dooing all thing to that end that he may finde his hearers attentiue obtaining their beneuolence now and then from the persons now and then from the things themselues A Theologist There are fiue things which often deceiue 〈◊〉 1 Wisdome which is small 2 Vertue which is weak 3 Will which is distorted 4 Affection which is turbulent 5 Reason which is vnbridled Rom. 12. ver 1. Mathematicas disciplotas multi Sancti nesciunt quidem qui sciunt cas sancti non sunt Aug. dealing with an aduersary must be able to distinguish fiue manner of waies By Allegoties Anagogies Translations Tropologies History There be fiue things inseparable Heauen and earth earth and that which we call Inane hell and darknes the Spirit of God and waters light and our bodies The earth void of it self concludeth domesticall darknes then it is joyned next vnto light by light vnto the heauen by heauen to the spirituall substance now put thereto God which is the end and beginning of all things one omnipotent without beginning without quantity form and number and who will not admire this fift Number All arts all kinde of knowledge whatsoeuer according to the opinion of the Antients is included in those fiue Books of Moses All antiquity holdeth that from the vertues of fiue things admirable emploiments haue been effected By prayer fasting alms-deeds repentance a chaste minde And this is meant by Saint Paul where hee saith Exhibiting our bodies as a sweet-swelling sacrifice to GOD holy pleasing rationall obsequious and so forth Perfection of vertue consisteth in fiue Sufficiency order religion prelation security The Mathematicks is a dangerous study for fiue respects It is no true science it leadeth not to felicity it destroies the fundaments of naturall Philosophy it is full of obscurity There are fiue thing neâ—eâ—sary â—o a â—â—â—â—ne 〈◊〉 he must not 〈◊〉 ignoâ—am of 〈◊〉 Piâ—â—â—ples â—â—â—â—ondly he 〈◊〉 must diuide 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 interpret 〈…〉 â—on â—â—y he 〈…〉 the â—â—â—â—monies of Scripture without peruerting them Lastly the must reconcile those places that seem contradictory Hypertus de studio Theologico it is full of scurity it hindreth Theology Wherefore one writeth Nihil magis nocivum Theologo quà m frequens assidua in Mathematicis Euclidis exercitatio All kinde of sounds in musick haue fiue differences Sharpnes grauity space Systeme region of the voice whereto adde Indole or sense called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and there will be nothing wanting Pronunciation consisteth of fiue voice countenance gesture comelinesse and habit of the mouth The diuell an noieth mankinde fiue manner of waies Outwardly by hurting the body as in Iob inwardly as those that are possessed or lie in a trance by impression of idols or imaginations suggesting euill by tempting the body to sinne through exteriour senses lastly by deceiuing through objection of false forms For hee perswadeth good through obetext of euill hee suggesteth euill vnder shewe of good he disswadeth good praier deeds of charity for to auoid the crime of vain glory Hee disswadeth the lesse euill to bring a man by despair vnto the greater Lucifor fell from his first dignity for these fiue causes following First beeing placed in the highermost hierarchie he was not content with his owne proper state Secondly the consideration of his first happinesse blinded him Thirdly because hee ouercame the first man by tempting it was needfull he should be ouercome by the second Fourthly he loued himself and his owne priuate good more than Him that created him Last of all hee thought scorn that any should be equall with him There bee fiue kindes of garments according to Vives Profitable There bee fiue excellent qualities in an horse which hee borroweth from fiue sundry beasts 1 Quicknes or nimblenes from the Hare 2 Ready sight and a faire hanging tayle from the Fox 3 That he eat his meat well from the Wolfe 4 That he hold his hayre and haue strong hoofes and posterns from the Asse 5 That he loue to be bridled by his master from a woman vnder the comn and of her husband Epid l. 6. Actius l. 1. de notis affec c. 4. precious light neat vain There are fiue hard works to bee done To play the Commander in the Field to pray to preach in the Pulpit to teach in a school to bring forth a childe
so firmely vnited together that there can be no diuulsion of any of those partes the one from the other In all those refinings or quintessences they preferre the vse of fire so highly that one sticketh not to write in this wise as touching the dissolution of the world Sic mundus et elementa eiut ignis interventu transitura funt at que etiam renouanda et à pristiná formâ in chrystallinam longè perfectiorem â—uriorem et nobiliorem ac in aeternum durabilem commutanda sunt Gold among all other Elixiries to vse Paracel us word hath foure especiall qualities It preserueth the bodie it freeth it from all manner of diseases Quer. Tetras grauis affec cap. 32. it keepeth it from corruption it correcteth whatsoeuer is found morbidous or putrefactious But this is meant not of foliated but of philosophicall gold spoyled of his crassious matter The absence of some men from their natiue countrie may proue dangerous for these foure causes following 1 If they stay longer then was appointed them 2 If they returne sooner then needeth 3 If they stay to auoid suites contention 4 If of purpose without hope of gaine they are long absent and reduced by a various kinde of workmanship vnto a certaine kinde of spiritualtie as those Paracelsians are wont to speake Dioptometrie which is no other then the Art of measuring whatsoeuer commeth within the compasse of measure handleth foure things celestiall terrestriall propinquous distant thorough a quadrant Astronomicall There be foure principall meanes whereby a man may surely knowe whether he hath attained to any knowledge whatsoeuer The first is if he seeke out the difficulties consisting in the art he goeth about to learne For as Aristotle * Lib. 3. Metaphy teacheth vs Contrariorum demonstrationes dubitationes sunt de contrarijs The second is that he doubt whether he hath attained to the truth or no. For as hee writeth * Posse Biblio selec To. 2. cap. 10. Qui quarunt nisi primò dubitent sunt corum similes qui ignorant quonam ire opertet et adhuc neque vtrum innenerine quod quaritur an non cognoscere possunt The third is if he know what is to be followed what to be auoyded as touching the opinions of other men The last is if hee be able to refute the opinions of others by collation of other mens judgements more sounder then others were For as Aristotle saith * Lib. 7. Ethecor Opposita inxta se posita magis elucescunt Hipparchus an antient Astronomer is said to bee the first who did finde out that the lunarie course was made betwixt foure Callipicous periods This man is called by Plynie as one that was partaker of the counsels of nature of Ptolomey 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is a louer of truth And hee is cited often by Possenine Clanius and others for the maintenance of their Romish Gregorian Calendar wherefore hee must be read with iudgement Death vseth foure instruments to the punishing of the earth warres and battels penurie pestilence These periods are called Callipaous from one callippus that was an Astronomer troupes of wilde-beasts figured in the * c. 6. v. 8. Apocalypse by that pale horse There were foure kindes of punishment antiently inflicted vpon parasites They were throwne headlong into a deepe riuer tied about the neck with a Cowle a Cock a Snake and an Ape CHAP. VII FIVE THis Number is called Signifer making a moîty of tenne There are fiue joyfull mysteries mention'd in the Gospel The incarnation of our Sauiour The visitation of Elizabeth The birth of Christ in Bethleem The presentation of our Redeemer The finding him in the Temple and is placed in the middle as in the midst of an host entrenched on euery side And it is no other than the vnarie Number twice coupled with foure or twice foure hemmed about with two Vnaries It must needs containe some more than vulgar excellency because it comprehendeth all things seen felt or vnderstood whether they be things intelligible things corporeall or such as haue no body For as Macrobius saith either God is the chief or the minde is begotten of him in whom is comprized the Species of all things or hee is the soule of the world which is the receptacle of all soules or heauenly things appertain vnto vs or nature sauoureth of the earth and so the fift Number including all things is fully compleat Let vs see what extendure it hath There were fiue wise Virgins and fiue foolish mentioned in the Gospell Pythagoras commanded his scholars to bee silent fiue yeers Nero for fiue-yeers-space There are fiue dolefull mysteries The praier Christ made in the garden The scourging of our blessed Sauior The crowning him with thornes The carrying his own cross The crucifying his blessed body was the best of other Emperors after fiue yeers expiration he becam the worst of all others There bee fiue Senses There bee fiue capitall Work-men as touching knowledge cited by Ammonius a Christian Philosopher The minde discourse opinion imagination sense which are called the first and most potent Principles of Orphicall Philosophie There are fiue parts of physick One entreateth as touching the nature of man and his constitution called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The second conserueth health and foreseeth lest the body should fall into any malady called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The third in quireth causes and their diuers symptomes called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The fourth containeth knowledge of things past the consideration of things present the fore telling of things to come called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The last wherein the order of curing is shewed called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There are fiue glorious mysteries There were fiue famous in the Art of physick before Hippocrates time Apollo Æsculapius Chiron Podalirius and Machaon sonnes of Æsculapius The resurrection of our Lord The ascension of our Sauior The descending of the holy Ghost The assumption of our lady The crowning of our Lady A Physician ought to behaue himself wisely in fiue things In his charge towards his Patient towards himself towards the standers-by towards his fellow-physicians according to the counsell of Cardan There bee fiue things belonging to the Art military Choice of young men exercise fortifying of castles and trenches munition instruction of the Camp whereto if you put fiue more it cannot chuse but bee compleat Oppugnation propugnation stratagems fortification ambushes Euery corporeall nature hath his seat fiue manner of waies In the vnderstanding in the minde There are fiue kindes of waters mention'd in holy Scriptures The waters of Ralim most swift the waters of Iordan troubled the waters of Bethleem standing the waters of Marah bitter the waters of Siloe sowre Rom. 5. in the creature in heauen belowe the Moon He that will vnderstand the meaning of Mercury's soporiferous Rod must be capable of fiue things taught among those Platonicks How that the soule liueth a