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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	day_n	sabbath_n	sunday_n	1,780	5	11.2140	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44128	A discourse concerning time with application of the natural day and lunar month and solar year as natural, and of such as are derived from them, as artificial parts of time, for measures in civil and common use : by William Holder.	Holder, William, 1616-1698.	1694 (1694)	Wing H2385; ESTC R30776	35,684	130

is as for the use of it Certain and not liable to any Error or Mistake It was stiled Aera Dionysiana or Aera Christiana and afterwards Vulgaris was added to it to distinguish it from Aera Christiana Vera as contended for though never in use Till then the Accounts in use were the Olympiads the Consuls Urbs Condita Indictions The Olympiads were a small Cycle but of four Years still repeated and numbring withall the Repetitions But Iphitus made them an Aera by accompting a continual Series of Expanded Years from the first Olympick and they were used both ways but chiefly the Olympiads by Quaternions CHAP. III. Of Epocha's Cycles or Periods § Of the Dionysian Period § Of the Cycle of the Sun and Changes of the Dominical Letter Containing also an Account of the Week and Bissextile With a Table of the Dominical-letter c. § Some other Periods particularly that called the Julian § The Indiction § Some Principal Aera's and Periods with a Table reducing them to the Year of our Lord. HERE if I may have leave to Digress and take in Notions though not so Pertinent to our present Design yet equally Profitable and Usefull to Young Students for whom this Discourse is intended I would in this Place say something more of Epocha's and Periods And first I take Epocha to be the Head or Beginning the Pause 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Stop if you reckon up or backwards as far as you can And Aera the Continuation or Series of any Account of Years which is or may be supposed to be Extended and Numbred onwards as long as Time shall have a Being Secondly a Cycle or Period is an Account of Years that has a Beginning and an End too And then begins again and again as often as it ends and so obtains a Perpetuity The Aera has but one Beginning which is the Epocha if we speak strictly though the Words are often Promiscuously used And from thence a Continual Extension The Cycle or Period has its Continuation by beginning again as oft as it ends going as it were in a Circle and thence it has its Name Thus the Cycle of the Moon after every Space of 19 Years begins again toties quoties in infinitum I think we do more commonly use these words so as to stile a lesser Space a Cycle and a greater by the Name of Period and you may not improperly call the Beginning of a large Period the Epocha thereof For the Derivation of these Words Epocha and Aera I refer you to the Etymologists The aforesaid Dionysius or as some affirm Victorius Aquitanus about 70 Years before him considering that a small Cycle of Years by reason of its often Revolution cannot give so certain a Character of Time as a large Period contrived a Period usefull for Computation consisting of 532 years by applying the Cycle of the Sun 28 to that of the Moon 19 which multiplied together give the Number of 532 beginning as oft as those two Cycles take their Rise together at 1 as they did lately in the Year 1672. Dionysius however gave it a new Beginning by applying it to the Year of our Lord and therefore it was generally stiled the Dionysian Period This Period has had but 4 Beginnings since Christ viz. A. D. 76 608 1140 1672 and this present Year 1693 is the 22d year of this Period As the Cycle of the Moon serves to shew the Epacts and that of the Sun the Dominical Letter throughout all their Variations So this Dionysian Period serves to shew these two Cycles both together and how they proceed and vary all along till at last they accomplish their Period and both together take their Beginning again after every 532d year And it serves farther also which was the chief Design of it for more Certain Computation by how much it is a Larger and more Comprehensive Period and under a more Undeceivable Calculation The two Cycles which make this Period are or ought to be very well known to all One of them that of the Moon or Golden Number is at large explicated in the following Discourse The other that of the Sun so called because it shews the Sunday Letter being a Table or Cycle of the Changes of the Dominical Letter I shall briefly here explain Instead of the ancient Roman division of the Month into Nones Ides and Calends we reckon the Days of the Month in Order And instead of their accompting by their Nundinae quasi Novendinae their Mercates or Fayrs for the Country-People to come to Town every 9th Day for Commerce and Trade and to receive their Laws as the Greeks reckoned by Ten 's dividing their Month into 3 Parts we as the Hebrews number our Days by Weeks and their Returns after every 7 Days which the Jews did in relation to their Sabbath and possibly the Assyrians c. in relation to the Quarters of the Moon consisting each of about 7 days and we as Christians for our Lord's day We describe the Days of the Week by seven several Names as Sunday Monday Tuesday c. And to distinguish them in the Calendar there are 7 Letters appropriated and set in Alphabetical order before them and so repeated throughout the whole Year viz. A B C D E F G and some one of these is the Dominical Letter or the Letter for Sunday and the Letters following for the other Days as they follow But the Sunday Letter is not constantly the same but is changed once in every Common Year and in every Fourth or Leap-year twice And the reason is First because the Common Year does not consist of just Weeks but of 52 Weeks and one Day So that as the Year begins with A set before New-year's-day So it ends with A set before the last Day And the Year beginning again at A there will be two A A falling together Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. and if one of them the former happen to be Sunday the other in course must stand for Monday and then reckoning onward Sunday must fall upon the first following G and G will be the Dominical that ensuing Year Thus the odd Day shifts back the Dominical Letter every Year by one Letter And this Revolution would be terminated in 7 Years But secondly there comes in another odd Day every 4th Year being Leap-year And in that Year there are consequently two such Shifts the Sunday Letter being changed twice Once at the beginning of the Year and the 2d time towards the latter end of February by Interposition of the Bissextile or Intercalar Day called Bissextile because the 6th of the Calends of March is twice repeated And the reason why this was done in that Month and not rather at the end of the Year seems to be because by Numa's Institution for the better regulating the Year in imitation of what the Greeks had done before there had been an Intercalation of several Days at that very time in February To take a more easie