Promantic Proof from the Number Four

itself. For I would dare to call You the FOURFOLD source of this earthly Trinity, divinely derived from the most fruitful Spring of Your Three Divine Ancestors and Progenitors, and to represent the most perfect and most proper Image of this Royal and Imperial Trinity, adorned and sealed on all sides with the Triple Seal of Imperial majesty; from whom the entire most glorious lineage of the Austrians, like a fire animating all things, receives Splendor, the whole Kingdom of Hungary and Bohemia receives Life and Happiness, and the entire Christian Commonwealth receives Glory and Honor. Truly, if we observe the common manner of speaking and acting among men, we will notice that most things are divided and distributed by FOUR, and commonly all things by QUADRANTS, Viertel quarter or Orth place/quarter, as they are wont to call them in the German idiom. For men themselves divide and distribute man and all animals into FOUR parts, weights by FOUR, measures by FOUR, money or currency by FOUR, and indeed all other things primarily by FOUR and into FOUR QUADRANTS and places, Viertel or Orth; so much so that venerable antiquity and the whole human race persuades and believes itself that the FOURTH number is the most common, the easiest, the most distinguished, and the most excellent. But a more powerful Splendor of Virtues shone forth from the FOURTH Number, MOST SERENE KING, when in Your most glorious Coronation, the FOURTH Number was joined to Your Most August Serene Name, FERDINAND, so that from all FOUR parts of the World and all FOUR monarchies, you might truly be called and be FERDINAND THE FOURTH, KING OF HUNGARY AND BOHEMIA, ELECTOR OF THE EMPIRE, AND ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA, etc. Nor does it seem worthy of little consideration, and it seems to confer a huge illumination upon the number FOUR, that all the most ample works of GOD and nature are written and consist of FOUR letters. Just as