For first, Not only the number of 7 and 9 from considerations abstruse, have been extolled by most, but all or most of the other digits have been as mystically applauded. For the number of One and Three have not been only admired by the Heathens, but from adorable grounds, the unity of God, and mystery of the Trinity admired by many Christians. The number of four stands much admired, not only in the quaternity of the Elements, which are the principles of bodies, but in the letters of the Name of God, which in the _Greek_, _Arabian_, _Persian_, _Hebrew_, and _Egyptian_, consisteth of that number; and was so venerable among the _Pythagoreans_, that they swore by the number four. That of six hath found many leaves in its favour; not only for the daies of the Creation, but its natural consideration, as being a perfect number, and the first that is compleated by its parts; that is, the sixt, the half, and the third, 1. 2. 3. Which drawn into a sum, make six. The number of Ten hath been as highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long, plain, quadrate and cubical numbers; and _Aristotle_ observed with admiration, that _Barbarians_ as well as _Greeks_, did use numeration unto Ten, which being so general, was not to be judged casual, but to have a foundation in nature. So that not only 7 and 9, but all the rest have had their Elogies, as may be observed at large in _Rhodiginus_, and in several Writers since: every one extolling number, according to his subject, and as it advantaged the present discourse in hand. Again, They have been commended not only from pretended grounds in nature, but from artificial, casual or fabulous foundations: so have some endeavoured to advance their admiration, from the 9 Muses, from the 7 Wonders of the World, from the 7 Gates of _Thebes_: in that 7 Cities contended for _Homer_, in that there are 7 Stars in _Ursa minor_, and 7 in Charles wayn, or Plaustrum of _Ursa major_. Wherein indeed although the ground be natural, yet either from constellations or their remarkable parts, there is the like occasion to commend any other number, the number 5 from the stars in _Sagitta_, 3 from the girdle of _Orion_, and 4 from _Equiculus_, _Crusero_, or the feet of the Centaur: yet are such as these clapt in by very good Authors, and some not omitted by _Philo_.