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A04032	The secrets of numbers according to theologicall, arithmeticall, geometricall and harmonicall computation. Drawne, for the better part, out of those ancients, as well neoteriques. ... By William Ingpen, Gent.	Ingpen, William.	1624 (1624)	STC 14089; ESTC S107425	91,591	122

parts thereof Now as the Frame of the world soon shewes vnto vs that there is a GOD the first and indiuisible Vnity from whence all other harmony proceedeth so this God although he be not to be measured with any quantity as hauing all number within himself yet the next way to knowe him perfectly is To begin with numbring For Except wee worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Vnity without confounding the Persons and diuiding the substance as holy Father Athanasius saith in his Creed we shall neuer be saued And it is worth obseruation there is no number little or great begetting begotten or mixt of both which hath not some spark of the Deity in it wherein God may not be said familiarly to be known of vs yea euen to dwell with vs as farther in this discourse shall bee made manifest For example Our common Creed read in the Church being a Summe or an Abbridgement containing all the mysteries of Christian Belief cannot bee made knowne vnto vs without the ternary Number seeing it consisteth of three parts The first is To beleeue in one GOD Father omnipotent Creator of heauen and earth The second is To beleeue in Iesus Christ God and Man The third is To beleeue in the holy Ghost The first is a Symbole of our creation the next of our redemption the last of our sanctification Again all the Commandements of God consist of two from whence the whole Decalogue is deriued whereof three Precepts being of the first Table concern our knowledge and loue of God the other seuen the loue of our neighbour Now it is manifest that the mysteries of our Christian Religion cannot bee knowne without Numbers no more can many parts of Scripture for the Book called the Apocalypse stiled by the holy Ghost it self hath so many dark and problematicall Numbers so many mysticall and symbolicall impenetrables that without the Art of numbring it were foolishnes for a man to say that he were able to vnderstand them As God therefore hath not reuealed himself vnto vs but by numbring so man as touching both parts his soule and body called a little world cannot be knowne sufficiently without the help of Numbers Some therefore write that the soule is no other than an harmony framed out of Numbers by a maruellous concordance in which opinion was Pythagoras and Plato To finde out then her essence temperature condition quality is to be skilled in the Art of numbring As touching our body it is composed all of Numbers musicall concent and harmony for Anatomists hold Andra Iaw reu Prasa ante l●● de anatomia that his symmetry reacheth in length 300 minutes in breadth 50 in height 30 according to whose proportion hauing some kinde of diuinity included in it the Ark of Noe some write was builded Yea others stick not to affirm that this Ark was builded of the wood called Cedar which lasteth longer than any other Now Qui se ipsum norit omnia nouerit cum in se rerum omnium habeat sunulachra for a man not to knowe himself which is the greatest ignorance that can bee I mean not to knowe the stature temperature and disposition of his soule and body is to be vnskilled in the Art of numbring Now I suppose that some of those Antients especially Marcus Varro though otherwise a learned man haue a little too much abased man in affirming that he came from the earth onely for that is common to all creatures indifferently But the true Originall of man is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for he is of all other creatures the most sociable And it is to be beleeued that man is to borrow his denomination rather from concord and co●sellowship seeing that in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is taken for like and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a similitude which is not to be placed in the earth nor in the body Homo ●b●●e minor mundus appellatur quia vs seribit Nazianzenus De●is in ●pso extrim●et sub b●●● quedam comsendio qu●●q●●d dis●use ant●a secerat but in the minde wherein man excelleth all other creatures whatsoeuer Man then consisting of a soule and body is a louely and liuely harmony wherein God himself and the visible heauen is represented There are many other speculatiue knowledges which without Numbers can no more bee discerned by vs than the Art of Geometry can be knowne without demonstration the Art of Logick without syllogizing For to measure the distance of those higher Planets and how far they are sited from the Centre of the earth cannot be done without numbring Some of the Antients write that the earth is from the Moon 15625 miles from the Moon to Mercurie 7612 and a half from Mercurie to Venus so many from Venus to Sol 24433 from the Sun to Mars A man cannot diuide the age of man without numbring 15625 from Mars to Iupiter 6812 from Iupiter to Saturn so many from Saturn to the Firmament 24427. Out of which may be gathered from Arithmeticall Computation that the earth vnto the visible heauen containeth 108959 miles vnder which as Ptolomey affirms there bee eight Orbs or Sphears For a childe of ten yeers old is counted a Hinde but by reason of the tripled motion of the eightth Sphear they make iust ten in the whole by a kinde of multiplication Archimedes therefore That great Geometrician who in a certain Table made of brasse made the whole visible heauen to bee looked vpon A Youth at twenty a Calf contrary to the opinion of some who enuied his doctrine could not haue done this A young man at 30 an Oxe if he had been but superficially sighted in the Art of numbring To knowe the circuit of the earth and how farre it extendeth cannot be done without Numbers A man at forty a Lion Aristotle affirmeth that the Mathematicians of his time did attribute vnto the earth in compasse 40 Myriades of furlongs which make in the whole fifty thousand miles Our modern Astrologers will haue the earth to consist of 20000 and 40 miles Growing to fifty a Fox Howsoeuer whether they speak truely or roue at randome At threescore a Wolf it is certain from collection of Numbers and by consent of Astronomers that the earth in respect of the heauen is but a point Which is prooued after this manner All Astrologers hold confidently At threescore ten a Dog that euery Starre of the eightth Sphear is bigger than the whole earth But there bee many Starres which are not seen of vs and those which wee see are like vnto puncts At fourescore a Cat Therefore if the earth were placed in the starry Firmament and should shine as the Stars doo it would not be seen of vs. At fourescore ten an Asse Besides the continuall course of those Planets without calculation cannot bee made manifest vnto vs. The Sunne first stayethin euery Signe 30 daies and 10 hours he maketh his course through

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