r thyng shalbe _Discreated_. Here
I stay. But our Seuerallyng, distinctyng, and _Numbryng_, createth
nothyng: but of Multitude considered, maketh certaine and distinct
determination. And albeit these thynges be waighty and truthes of great
importance, yet (by the infinite goodnes of the Almighty _Ternarie_,)
Artificiall Methods and easy wayes are made, by which the zelous
Philosopher, may wyn nere this Riuerish _Ida_, this Mountayne of
Contemplation: and more then Contemplation. And also, though _Number_,
be a thyng so Immateriall, so diuine, and aeternall: yet by degrees, by
litle and litle, stretchyng forth, and applying some likenes of it, as
first, to thinges Spirituall: and then, bryngyng it lower, to thynges
sensibly perceiued: as of a momentanye sounde iterated: then to the
least thynges that may be seen, numerable: And at length, (most
grossely,) to a multitude of any corporall thynges seen, or felt: and
so, of these grosse and sensible thynges, we are trayned to learne a
certaine Image or likenes of numbers: and to vse Arte in them to our
pleasure and proffit. So grosse is our conuersation, and dull is our
apprehension: while mortall Sense, in vs, ruleth the common wealth of
our litle world. Hereby we say, Three Lyons, are three: or a _Ternarie_.
Three Egles, are three, or a _Ternarie_.

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Which * _Ternaries_, are eche, the _Vnion_, _knot_, and _Vniformitie_,
of three discrete and distinct _Vnits_. That is, we may in eche
_Ternarie_, thrise, seuerally pointe, and shew a part, _One_, _One_, and
_One_. Where, in Numbryng, we say One, two, Three. But how farre, these
visible Ones, do differre from our Indiuisible Vnits (in pure
_Arithmetike_, principally considered) no man is ignorant. Yet from
these grosse and materiall thynges, may we be led vpward, by degrees,
so, informyng our rude Imagination, toward the conceiuyng of _Numbers_,
absolutely (:Not supposing, nor admixtyng any thyng created, Corporall
or Spirituall, to support, conteyne, or represent those _Numbers_
imagined:) that at length, we may be hable, to finde the number of our
owne name, gloriously exemplified and registred in the booke of the
_Trinitie_ most blessed and aeternall.

But farder vnderstand, that vulgar Practisers, haue Numbers, otherwise,
in sundry Considerations: and extend their name farder, then to Numbers,
whose least part is an _Vnit_. For the common Logist, Reckenmaster, or
Arithmeticien, in hys vsing of Numbers: of an