Promantic Proof from the Number Four

Four Rustics. The four Peasants or Farmers.
{ Cologne.
{ Regensburg.
{ Constance.
{ Salzburg.

This most ancient and widely extending division of the Empire, through the QUATERNARY, posterity restricted into a more concise QUATERNION, and contracted the whole Empire into FOUR principal members, which are:
I. The EMPEROR as Head.
II. The Electors.
III. The Ecclesiastics, Princes, Counts, and Nobles.
IV. The Free Cities.

Furthermore, this most celebrated partition of the Roman Empire into a QUATERNION, which all ages have wished to be the base and foundation upon which the majesty, honor, glory, and safety of all Roman power should be established, clearly declares that if the falling Empire is to be assisted, it cannot be achieved in any other way than by being supported by the FERDINANDEAN QUATERNION, as if by the firmest FOUR columns. And to these FOUR parts of the Empire, the supreme and most excellent QUATERNARY is added, composed of FOUR most august FERDINANDS, arranged no less beautifully than fortunately. The sacred pages also seem to prescribe this, and the oracles of the divine prophets seem to predict that all happiness of the Roman Empire is to be expected from the FERDINANDEAN QUATERNION. For the Divine Genesis says Gen. 2.: A river went out of the place of pleasure to water the Paradise, which from there is divided into FOUR heads of the World, and the FOURTH river is itself the Euphrates. This river aptly alludes to the most glorious Kings and Caesars, FERDINAND the First, Second, and Third. For divided into three most august heads of the world, admirable in both war and peace, they watered the whole world with the most celebrated fame of heroic virtues and most magnificent deeds, and were happy.