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B16297	An explication of the iudiciall lawes of Moses. Plainely discovering divers of their ancient rites and customes. As in their governours, government, synedrion, punishments, civill accompts, contracts, marriages, warres, and burialls. Also their oeconomicks, (vizt.) their dwellings, feasting, clothing, and husbandrie. Together with two treatises, the one shewing the different estate of the godly and wicked in this life, and in the life to come. The other, declaring how the wicked may be inlightned by the preaching of the gospel, and yet become worse after they be illuminated. All which are cleered out of the originall languages, and doe serue as a speciall helpe for the true understanding of divers difficult texts of scriptures. ... / By Iohn Weemse, of Lathocker in Scotland, preacher of Gods word.	Weemes, John, 1579?-1636.	1632 (1632)	STC 25214; ESTC S112662	170,898	257

this sort of people Seneca calleth them our Antipodes for when we rise they goe to bed contrà How they reckoned the dayes of the Weeke THe Iewes reckoned their dayes thus Prima Sabbath secunda sabbath the first day of the weeke the second day of the weeke c. Secondly the Latine Church reckoned from the Passeover Prima feria secunda feria c. Thirdly they borrowed afterward another sort of reckoning from the Heathen who reckoned their dayes by the Planets the Sunne the Moone Mercurie Mars c. What is the reason that they reckoned not the dayes Quest of the weeke according to the order of the Planets for the Planets stand after this order Saturne stands in the highest place then Iupiter next Mars and so in order Sol Mercurie Venus and then Luna Iupiter followeth not Saturne in the dayes of the weeke but Sol so Mercurie followeth not Sol but Luna The order of the dayes of the weeke is Mathematicall Answ for the seven Planets being set downe in a circle according to their owne naturall order by an equall distance they make seven triangles reaching from their bases to the Hemisphere whose bases arise from the severall corners drawne in the circle in whose circumference the seven Planets are set downe according to their owne order making up one equall triangle in every one of their two sides as ☉ Sol ☽ Luna ♂ Mars ☉ Sol is in the right side of the triangle ☽ Luna in the top and ♂ Mars in the left side of the triangle and so from ♂ Mars to ♃ Iupiter by ☿ Mercurie and from ♃ Iupiter to ♄ Saturne by ♀ Venus and from ♄ Saturne to ☽ Luna by ☉ Sol and from the ☽ Moone to ☿ Mercurie by ♂ Mars and from ☿ Mercurie to ♀ Venus by ♃ Iupiter as yee may see in the figure following A Demonstration to shew how the dayes are reckoned according to the seven Planets Whether may these names of the weeke dayes which Quest are imposed by the Heathen be used in the Christian Church or not The Apostles themselues used such names for distinction Answ as Areopagus Mars streete Act. 17. So we sailed in a Shippe whose Badge was Castor and Pollux Act. 28. and such like CHAPTER XXVII Of their moneth EXOD. 12. 2. This shall be the beginning of moneths to you BEfore the people of God came out of Egypt the moneths were reckoned according to the course Reasons proving how many dayes every moneth had of the Sunne following the custome of the Egyptians and Chaldeans and their moneths were full thirtie dayes as may be gathered out of the eight of Genesis the floud began to waxe the seventh day of the second moneth Iair answering to our May and it began to decrease in the seventh day of the seventh moneth Tishri from the seventh day of the second moneth to the seventh day of the seventh are one hundred and fiftie dayes which being divided by thirtie giveth to every moneth thirtie dayes After they came out of Aegypt their moneths were full thirtie dayes Numb 11. 19. Yee shall not eate one day neither fiue dayes neither tenne dayes but even a whole moneth Hence we may gather that their moneth was full thirtie dayes because they Reasons proving how many moneths are in the yeare reckoned by fiue ten twentie thirtie So there were twelue moneths in the yeare every moneth consisting of thirtie dayes 1 King 4. 7. And Salomon had twelue officers over all Israel which provided victuals for the King and his houshold Each man in his moneth through the yeare made provision now if there had beene more then twelue moneths in the yeare as afterward the Iewes made their intercalar yeare Veadar then one should haue had two moneths So 1 Chron. 27. 1. and 12. 15. The chiefe Officers served the King by courses which came in and out moneth by moneth throughout all the moneths in the yeare here we may see that there were twelue moneths in the yeare every moneth had thirty dayes which made up in the yere three hundred and sixtie dayes But because there were fiue full dayes lacking in the The twelue moneths come short of the course of the Sunne fiue dayes moneths to fill up the course of the Sunne which is three hundred sixtie and fiue dayes the Egyptians put to the fiue dayes called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the last moneth Tishri The fiue odde dayes illustrated by an apologue of Mercurie and the Moone and they illustrate the matter by this apologue they say that Mercurie and the Moone at a time did play at the dice for the fiue odde dayes and that Mercurie did winne them from the Moone and Mercurie followed the course of the Sunne And in respect the Sunne every yeare runneth three hundred sixtie fiue dayes and How the leape yeare or bissextile is made up sixe odde houres which sixe odde houres every fourth yeare maketh a day they added this day to the fourth yeare which yeare by the Egyptians was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as ye would say the dog turning about to himselfe as when he biteth his owne taile and the Latines called it annus from annulus because it turned about to the same point againe So Ioh. 18. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a yeare so Luk. 3. 2. This odde day which was added every fourth yeare was called dies desultorius because it wandered This desultorie or bissextile day at the first did run thorow the twelve Moneths to and fro through the whole yeare for the space of one hundred and twentie yeares This is called saeculum Gen. 26. and therefore they inter-laced a whole moneth for this desultorius dies which in What makes an embolimie yeare the space of one hundred and twentie years maketh up a moneth of thirty dayes and because that day which afterward was inter-called in the fourth yeare lacked some scruples of a whole day therefore in the space of The Sunnes course commeth alwayes backe in the moneths one hundred thirty and sixe yeares the Sunne turned backe a day in every moneth when it commeth to the Equinoxe or Solstice The Sunne was in the Equinoxe at Christs death in the twentie fifth of March now it is come to the tenth of March and if the world should continue long it should come to the tenth of Ianuary and so backward This sheweth that the Sunne keepeth The Sunne followeth the first mover the revolution of the first mover who comes alwayes neerer to the North Pole as the Astronomers haue observed These fiue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dies the last of them Nehemias calleth Nephthar from the word patar purificare for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Purificare writing to the Iewes which were in Egypt 2 Macc. 1. 36. he sayes that the Temple was purified upon the last of these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dies called naphthar for the Egyptian moneths had alwayes thirtie dayes which make up