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A64222
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Taylors arithmetick from one to tvvelve with a sollid discourse betweene yesterday, to-morrow, to-day, & a lover.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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1653
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Wing T533A; ESTC R38798
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Amongst all dayes the Seventh was chiefest blest A resting Sabbath type of endlesse rest The Planets in their revolutions sâ—…ven The 7 Starres in the Firmament of Heaven Pharaoh's 7 dream'd leane Kine devour'd 7 fat And want and plenty Joseph found by that Yea more than forty times Leviticus Doth in 6 Chapters mention 7 to us Six times Eliahs man went out in vaine He went the seventh time and brought newes of Raine Seven Priests 7 times did with 7 trumpets blow And then fell down the walls of Jericho King David 7 times every day did praise The Lord for 's judgements just and righteous wayes Th' Assyrian Naaman at the Prophets word Did wash himselfe 7 times in Jordans Ford Because he did the Seers command obey His loathsome Leprosie was cur'd straightway The Widdowes 7 sons in the Maccabees In livâ—…s and deaths renown'd for constancies Peâ—â—â—ions 7 taught by our Lord Supernall Include 〈◊〉 blessings temporall and eternall Christ in compassion in his Passions grief Spake 7 sweet words to the believing Thiefe Then he who paid our great Redemptions price Said this day shalt thou be in Paradice These 7 words were Celestiall Gileads Balme Midst storms of death and hell a blessed calm One said to Christ shall I forgive him free That hath done 7 offences against mee The answer was those that will happy live Must 7 and seventy times and more forgive Thus seven times seventy plainly doth expresse If man remit God quits sins numberlesse Seven Asian Churches in the Revelation Seven Angells in them to preach mans salvation Seven golden Candlesticks with heavenly light To guide us from the wrong way to the right These sevens and many more each man may view In Gods two Testaments the Old and New Man hath seven Ages first his Infancy Puerillity Mans state Youth Gravity Old age and state decrepit these seven are From Birth to Buriall our appointed share And every seventh yeare we may justly call Our lifes division Clymactericall And nine times seven of years are sixty three Mans dangerous age and death as oft we see And ten times seven amounts to seven times ten Just Davids span the common age of men Thrice seven years past that time some may survive Till griefe and sorrow unto death them drive Seven are the Sciences so call'd indeed Because from them all other Arts proceed Seven are the deadly sinnes whose root and stem Grew first in hell and all sins else from them Seven were the wisest men ere Gotham had But England hath seven thousand sevens as mad Seven Sages â—…nce in Greece renown'd admir'd For wisdome in these times not much desir'd Rome once had seven wise Masters they are dead Seven thousand Knaves and Fools left in their stead Seven Wonders had the world since it began But the eighth wonder were a righteous man Seven Saxon Kings this Kingdome once obey'd But ne're had peace till one the Scepter sway'd Of Sacraments the Roman Church hath seven Hâ—…re onely two directs the way to heaven A holy Prophet long ago fore told Seven Women should upon one man take hold Which Prophesie is very near fulfil'd By bloudy wars thousands of men are kill'd By Sea and Land death doth to men befall Besides the common way that 's naturall Males are in multitudes of life bereft That one man for seven Womens scarcely left The Seven Electors at an Emperours choice Are Seven to make up a prevailing Voice Seven years Apprentiship the Law ordain'd Whereby men have their freedoms here obtain'd On the number Eight When the old World was drown'd Eight then surviv'd And from those Eight the new World was deriv'd On the number Nine 'T is plainly and undoubtedly exprest Nine sorts of people certainly are best Ingratitude Nine Leapers did defile Their Leaprosie was not so loathsome Vile Nine are the Muses and the Poets blisse They make him sing his minde a Kingdome is But in that Kingdom 's not one foot of ground Or any thing esteem'd if it be found The pur-blinde world and Fortune holds it fit That Reverend wealth should make a Foole of Wit Because each Poet wants a good Mecoenas I live and lack and wander like a leane Asse On the number Ten. The Ten Commandments are the Law Divine To keep those Lawes good Lord our hearts incline But from those Ten should Ten men each pluck one 'T is to be fear'd that left we should have none The Atheist which the Psalmist foole doth call As he believes will have no God at all Th' Idolater will stock block Idols have To save him though themselves they cannot save The Roarer that delights to damn and sweare From the Commandments he the third would teare The Sabbath-breaker would pluck out the fourth The fifth with Rebels is of little worth The sixth the Murtherer would stab and wound The seventh the hot Adult'rer would confound The Thiefe would steale the eighth away and then False witnesse spoyle the ninth and for the ten The Wretch that 's coveteous would rend and bite And pluck the rest in pieces if be might Thus would these Ten this cursed Catalogue Each race out one and spoile the Decalogue On the number Eleven Man seems to know by Art and study great Eleven long steps from th' Earth to Gods blest seat The first step to the Moone and secondly He mounts unto the sphere of Mercury The third staire he to Venus Orb doth soare And fourthly to the Sun make one step more The fifth to Mars the sixth to Jupiter The seventh to Melancholy Saturns sphere Eighthly to th' fixed stars 〈◊〉 ascends on high And ninthly to the Primum Mobile The tenth step to the Heav'n cal'd Christaline And last where never ending glories shine Here 's knowledge with mans Ignorance so tainted He nothing knows nor with himselfe 's acquainted On the number Twelve Twelve Patriarks Twelve Prophets and Twelve Tribes These sacred Twelves the holy Writ describes Twelve Gates hath heavenly new Jerusalem Each Gate 's a whole Pearle unvalued jem Twelve thousand Furlongs the Walls are foure square And in each square three of those Pearle Gates are Twelve Angels Twelve Apostles Twelve Foundations That all Believers from all Lands and Nations May enter there from North South East and West And there be glorifi'd with endlesse Rest God grant the Writer and this Reader may Keep there an everlasting Holy-Day Those blessed Twelves in Twelve lines I have Pen'd And thus my poor ARITHMETICK doth END Too late to call back YESTERDAY AND To MORROW Comes not Yet The words fancied in a Dialogue supposed between a LOVER and the DAY Lover HO Yesterday Yesterday Who calls Lo. A Lover Yest Why Lov. Deare Yesterday come back Yest Lover not I. I dare not so transgresse against Times Glasse Lov. One word but one word Yest Not one let me pass Lov. By the Dews that deck'd thy Locks By thy Heards and by thy Flocks By Times oft well-taken Lock