BUT notwithstanding all This, I am far from believing that there is any peculiar _Virtue_ in _NUMBERS_, considered _abstractedly_: Only, I would hereby demonstrate, that as the _Omniscient CREATOR_ has appointed every thing a _certain TIME_ for its _Production_, _Augmentation_, _Perfection_, _Declension_, and _Duration_; so in all probability, the same _Decree_ or Good-Will of _Divine Providence_ may have ordered _NUMBERS_, and _Sett-Days_ or _Times_ to concur with the apparent Necessity of _Corporeal_, _Natural_, and _Mechanical_ CAUSES. For in Truth, at last, I cannot think that, unless there had been some great and distinct _Mysterys_ of _GOD_ and _Nature_ comprehended in _NUMBERS_, the Great DIVINE[128] would otherwise have recommended That _Search_ to the World of Understanding to count the _NUMBER_ of the _Beast_: saying, _It is the Number of a Man_. But to proceed: [Illustration] CHAP. XXXVII. _Of an Eleven-Months, and all posteriour BIRTHS._ As to this MONTH, many _Authors_[129] agree to legitimate its _BIRTH_; because of several repeated _Instances_ that really happen’d in their Days: To which I can add _ONE_ of my own proper _Experience_, during my itinerant _Practice_ in the City of _Prague_. Where, as I came recommended to the Acquaintance of some Eminent _Physicians_ of the Place, I happen’d once to be call’d (by _one_ of them) to a _Lady_ in LABOUR; whom I had the good Fortune to deliver immediately, of a fine, lusty, and lively _Girl_. After which, I had the Honour to attend her in _Child-Bed_; I mean, to visit and prescribe for her, by the concurring Advice of my Honoured _Friend_ (the most Learned and Ingenious Dr. _Von Overberg_, who was her near Relation) in order to prevent some _Disasters_ under which she had formerly suffer’d on the like Occasion. Upon This, she was pleas’d to tell me out of her own Mouth, that, before the _Day_ of her DELIVERY, her _Husband_, (who was a _Colonel_ in the Imperial Service) had been gone to the _Army_, then in _Sicily_, TEN MONTHS and _two Days_; so that this _Proculean_ CHILD was born (at soonest) the _Third Day_ of the _Eleventh Month_. And in this _Case_, I dare say, I was no ways mistaken, or impos’d upon; that _Lady_ being endued with no less true _Honour_ and strict _Virtue_, than she was otherways deservedly esteem’d, of a singular good _Character_, and great _Distinction_ in that Place.