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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. שדי Sadai: in time of the Law, the ineffable name of God was expressed with four letters יהוה insteed of which the Hebrews express אדני Adonai: in time of grace the ineffable name of God was with five letters יהשוה Ihesu, which is called upon with no less mysterie then that of three letters ישו.