Promantic Proof from the Number Four

and will be, because they most studiously cultivated and loved to observe these Catholic theorems of Saint Augustine, which he proposed to Kings. For in these consists the happiness of Kings: to rule justly; not to be exalted among the tongues of those honoring them highly, but to remember that they are human; to refer their majesty and power to the greatest expansion of the worship of GOD, and to make themselves the servant of His Majesty; to fear, love, and worship GOD; to love more that kingdom where they do not fear to have partners; to punish more slowly; to forgive more easily; to exercise vengeance for the necessity of ruling and protecting the Republic, not for satiating the hatreds of enemies; to grant mercy not for the impunity of iniquity, but for the hope of correction. If anything was sometimes done too harshly, to compensate with the gentleness of mercy and the liberality of benefits; to prefer to rule over depraved desires rather than over any nations. With these droplets of royal graces, drawn from the rivers of Paradise, these three most wise heads of the world, our most Catholic Princes the FERDINANDS, watered the whole world, and therefore they obtained and continue to obtain the highest praise for wisdom and industry. Gen. 2: The FOURTH river is itself the Euphrates, FERDINAND THE FOURTH, CROWNED KING OF HUNGARY AND BOHEMIA. He himself, by the irrigating charm of fertility and the fecundity of virtues, by clemency, goodness, beneficence, moderation, affability, meekness, industry, diligence, and neighboring virtues, which are like hereditary gifts to the Austrian Princes, is now going to water the whole FERDINANDEAN Kingdom of Hungary and Bohemia, and in his time will water FOUR, and (because Euphrates has its name from making joyful) he is going to make the regions of the World joyful. For to Your Most Serene Majesty, Victories, Triumphs, the Glory of achievements, and the other ornaments of heroic Virtues, by which your most august ancestors and progenitors merited the heights of so many Kingdoms, the Empire, and eternity, rightfully and most deservedly come as an inheritance. For you, MOST SERENE KING, have been designated by that prophetic statement of Daniel,