fbeQrincunx MijHcallyConfidered. 



the number of the Princes 5 That five 

 fhould put to flight an hundred might 

 have nothing my ftically imply ed 5 con- 

 fidering a rank of Souldiers could fcarce 

 confift of a leflcr number. Saint Paul 

 bad rather fpeak five words in a known 

 then ten thoufend in an unknowne 

 tongue : That is as little as could well 

 befpoken. A iimple proposition con- 

 fitting of three words and a com- 

 plexed one not ordinarily ftort of 

 five* 



More considerable there are in this 

 myfticall account, which we muft not 

 infift on. And therefore why the radi- 

 call Letters in the Pentateuch, fhould 

 equall the number of the Souldiery of 

 the Tribes; Why our Saviour in the 

 Wildernefle fed five thou&nd perfons 

 with five Barley Loaves, aod again, but 

 four thoufand with no lefle then feven 

 of Wheat? Why Jofefb defigned five 

 changes of Rayment unto Zen]ami*? 

 and David took juft five pibbles out 

 of the Brook againft the Pagan Cham- 

 f We leave it unto Arithmeu- 

 O2 call 



