THe number five is of no small force, for it consists of the first even, and the first odd, as of a Female, and Male For an odd number is the Male, and the even the Female Whence Arithmeticians call that the Father, and this the Mother. Therefore the number five is of no small perfection, •• vertue, which proceeds from the mixtion of these numbers▪ It is also the just midle of the universal number, viz. ten. For yon divide the number ten, there will be nine and one, or eight and two, or seven and three, or six and four, and every collection makes the number ten, and the exact midle alwaies is the number five, and its equadistant; and therefore it is called by the Pythagoreans the number of Wedlock, as also of justic• because it divides the number ten in an even Scale. There b• five senses in man, sight, hearing, smelling, tasting: five powers in the soul, Vegetative, Sensitive, Concupiscible, Inscible, Rationall: five fingers on the hand: five wandering Planets in the heavens, according to which there are five-fo• terms in every sign. In Elements there are five kinds • mixt bodies, viz. Stones, Metals, Plants, Plant-Animals, Animals, and so many kinds of Animals, as men, four-foote beasts, creeping, swimming, flying. And there are five kind• by which all things are made of God, viz. Essence, the same another, sense, motion. The Swallow brings forth but fi•• young, which she seeds with equity, beginning with the eldest and so the rest, according to their age. Also this number ha•• great power in expiations: For in holy things it drives away Divels. In naturall things, it expels poysons. It is also called the number of fortunateness, and favour, and it is the seale of the Holy Ghost, and a bond that binds all things, and the number of the cross, yea eminent with the principall wounds of Christ whereof he vouchsafed to keep the scars in his glorifyed body. The heathen Philosophers did dedicate it as sacred to Mercury esteeming the vertue of it to be so much more excellent then the number four, by how much a living thing is more excellent then a thing without life. For in this number the Father Noah found favour with God, and was preserved in the floud of waters. In the vertue of this number Abraham, being an hundred years old, begat a Son of Sarah, being ninety years old, and a barren Woman, and past child bearing, and grew up to be a great people. Hence in time of grace the name of divine omnipotency is called upon with five letters. For in time of nature the name of God was called upon with three letters. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Sadai: in time of the Law, the ineffable name of God was expressed with four letters 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 insteed of which the Hebrews express 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Adonai: in time of grace the ineffable name of God was with five letters 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Ihesu, which is called upon with no less mysterie then that of three Letters 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
The names of God with five Letters. The names of Christ with five Letters. | | 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 | Eloim. Elohim. Jhesu. | | | In the examplary world.
Five Intelligible substances. | Spirits of the first Hierarchy called Gods, or the Sons of God. | Spirits of the second Hierarchy called Intelligencies. | Spirits of the third Hierarchy, called Angels which are sent. | Souls of Celestiall bodies. | Heroes or blessed souls. | In the Intellectual world.
Five wandring Stars, Lords of the Tearms. | Saturn. | Jupiter. | Mars. | Venus. | Mercury. | In the Celestiall world.
Five kinds of corruptible things. | Water. | Aire. | Fire. | Earth. | A mixed body. | In the Elementary world.
Five kinds of mixt bodies. | Animall. | Plant. | Metall. | Stone. | Plant-animal. |
Five senses. | Last. | Hearing. | Seeing. | Touching. | Smelling. | In the lesser world.
Five Corporeall torments. | Deadly Bitterness. | Horrible howling. | Terrible darkness. | Unquenchable Heat. | A piercing stink. | In the infernall world.