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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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Wing T533A; ESTC R38798
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TAYLORâ—… ARITHMETICK FROM ONE to TWELVE WITH A Sollid Discourse BETWEENE YESTERDAY TO-MORROW TO-DAY A LOVER LONDON Printed in the Yeare 16â—â— Taylors ARITHMETICK c. 0 00 000 0000 00000 000000 IN the first line you nought but Cyphers â—…ee 10 100 1000 10000 100000 1000000 But adding One they more then Cyphers bee And take that One from them what are they then Just nothing Cyphers as they were agen So some who were but Cyphers in estate One set before them rais'd them to some rate To tens to hundreds thousands thousands ten From Cyphers unto millions mounted men One rais'd up Numbers Numbers laid One low Thus with Vicissitude goes weale and woe Now that One 's gone some are left bare and pâ—…r Just nothing Cyphers wanting One before And is it but for One we make this moan Before us now are many more then One But One did make me something then I had Supportance from One to be fed and clad But many many sins a Cypher made me Just nothing nothing ten years hath been paid me Coyne is mans earthly life life's Nerves and Siâ—â—wes And I should have some from the Crowns Revâ—… For which I 've su'd aâ—…d su'd but have it not The fauâ—…t 's not mine 't is my unlucky lot And I might seek again if I were mad And have as much as formerly I had Were I as free from want as cleare from hate I would not with an Alderman change state But cares and wants in Troups assault me thick Past numbring with my poore ARITHMETICK Thus upon One a little I have plaid Zet more of One a little must be said The Father 's One One likewise is the Son The Holy Ghost One and all three but One One Faith there is he that hath two hath none And in the Firmament One Sun One Moone Man hath One soule one Corps One head one brain One Tongue One heart some very Knaves have twain One Life one span if one inch more it be It stretches to unmeasur'd misery The World 's but One and that 's a Cypher round And nothing but a Cypher 't will be found All shall lose All do lose all have lost Who shall doth hath the false world trusted most If in Jerusalem One man had bin That had lov'd God and striv'd to shun all sin Th' Almighty on them would compassion take And spare the City for that One mans sake But as the Psalmist truly made his moane The Lord beheld none doth good no not ONE On the number Two Two Natures the most High most blâ—…st did beare The Godhead great the Manhood pure and cleare Man hath two substances both soyl'd and â—…oule A body cloy'd with crimes a sinfull soule He hath Two Eyes to see Two Eares to heare Two hands to work Two legs the rest to beare He hath Two choices Life Death Good or ill Yet hath no free will to chuse which he will Mans will to chuse the good and â—…un the 〈◊〉 Two lives Two deaths Two temporall Two eternall Two wayes from hence Coelestiall and Infernall I could speak more of Two and more of One But Three calls for me and I must be gone On the number Three Three is that blessed Trinity and I Do beg the blessing of that Trinity Three times the Apostle Paul with Rods was beaten And Three times suffered Shipwrack death did threaten Three are the Graces Theologicall Or Vertues call'd Divine Coelestiall Faith is the Creed and who so holds that fast Hope the Lords Prayer Gods gift will crown at last And Charity obediently presents Her service in the Ten Commandements Thâ—…se Three are th' Handmaids of Salvation These guide men what to do or leave undone On the number Foure The Foure Evangelists the Story pen'd Of him who ne're began and ne're shall end His low discending his high Pedigree His Innocence wondrous works and misery His suffrings and his bitter Death and Passion To free poor sinners from deserv'd Damnation Foure Vertues Cardinall Justice Fortitude Prudence and Temperance these Foure include All mans perfection here from these proceeds Th' effects of our best thoughts our words and deeds Foure quarters of the World are Asia With Affrick Europe and America 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eâ—…t 〈◊〉 South and Suâ—…-set West Foure seasons round about the yeare doth bring The Summer Autumn Winter and the Spring Foure Elements Fire Water Earth are three And th' Aire unseen which no man e're did see Foure Dispositions Dry Moist Hot and Cold Foure strange Complexions humerous manifold Intemperate Sanguine Lazy Phlegmatick Sad mad Melancholy rash Cholerick And various mixtures of those foure Complextions Possesseth us with contrary affections And which of these foure humours are most in us The same to Vice or Vertue still doth win us And were there not worse Knaves then foure i th' Cards I mean no Dukes or Dons or Lords or Lards The grieved peoples plaints had not been such And Englands miseries not halfe so much Thus having done with Foure I think it meet To fall to worke on Five to Fill my sheet On the number Five Blest He whose Grace and Glory hath no bounds For 's Enemies receiv'd Five mortall wounds Curst he that with both tongue and teeth doth teare That glorious Name and by those Wounds do sweare And forsweare too those cursed sons of Caine Do Crucifie Christ every day againe He that 's the Bread of life the living Bread He that Five thousand men with Five loaves fed He whom Five Virgins wisely waited on With Oyle in Lamps Five foolish ones had none Five Sences in our body he hath plac'd â—…o Heare to See to Smell to Touch to Taste But all those Senses senslesse men do use The gracious giver of them to abuse Men never were more cruell mercilesse Never more Pride or vain voluptuousnesse Hypocrisie is mask'd in Robes of Zeale And Avarice preyes on this Nations weale Blinde fortune in her wisdome thought it fit To give some all and many nere a whit Though times be dangerous for an honest man With Gods help I 'le passe through all as I can And thus my fingers Five do make an end With Five because on Six I must attend On the number Six Six I 'le be briefe with for my mind I fix To write more large of Seven and short of Six Six dayes th' Almighty did preordinate To be the time the whole world to create He said but Let there be and every thing Was made for Man and he made Man sole King Of all the Creatures but he quickly fell He against God rebel'd all things rebell Against him for 't he 'th lost both Grace and plâ—…ce In Paradice and all his wretched Race Unto his sinne Originall are Heires Increas'd still with the actuall sins of theirs For which the Curse was Man his bread should eate With Six daies worke in Seven with toyle and sweat On the number Seven Since the Creation still from Age to Age Seven is a number of most high presage
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