And the year of our Saviour Christs birth being the 3948. of the World, was at the end of a Sabbatical year, and the *524. Septenary of the World. Moses maketh the common age of all men, to be ten times seven, Psal. 90. & every seventh year commonly produceth some notable achange or accident in mans life: And no wonder; for as Hippocrates ⟨p. 533⟩affirmeth, that a child in his mothers womb, on the seventh day of his conception, hath all his members finished, and from that day groweth to the perfection of birth: which is always either the ninth or seventh month. At seven years old, the child casts his teeth, and receives new. And every seventh year after there is some alteration or change in mans life: especially, at nine times seven, the Climacteric year, which by experience is found to have been fatal to many of those learned *men who have been the chiefest lights of the world. And if they escaped that year, yet most of them have departed this life in a ⟨p. 534⟩septenary year. Lamech dyed in the year of his life 777. Methusalem, the longest liver of the sons of men, died when he began to enter his 900. and 70. year. Abraham dyed, when he had lived 25. times 7. years. Jacob when he had lived 21. times 7. years. David after he had lived ten times 7. years. So did Galen, so did Petrarch (who as Bodin noteth) dyed on the same day of the year that he was borne: so did the Maiden-Queen *Elizabeth, of blessed and never dying memory, who came into this world the Eve of the Nativity of the blessed Virgin Mary: and went out of this world, on the Eve of the Annunciation ⟨p. 535⟩of the Virgin Mary. Hippocrates dyed in his 15. septenary. Hierome and Isocrates in their 13. Pliny Bartolus and Caesar ▪ in their 8. septenary. 5And Johannes de temporibus, who lived 361. years dyed in the 53. septenary of his life. The like might be observed of innumerable others.6 And indeed the whole life of a man is measured by the Sabbath: for, how many years soever a man liveth here: yet his life is but a life of 7. days, multiplied, so that in the number of 7. there is a mystical perfection, which our understanding cannot attain unto.
And the yeere of our Sauiour Christs birth being the 3948. of the World, vvas at the ende of a Sabbaticall yeere, and the *524. Septenarie of the World. Moses maketh the common age of all men, to be tenne times seauen, Psal. 90. & euery seauenth yeere commonly produceth some notable achange or accident in mans life: And no wonder; for as Hypocrates ⟨p. 533⟩affirmeth, that a child in his mothers wombe, on the seauenth day of his conception, hath all his members finished, and from that day groweth to the perfection of birth: which is alwayes eyther the ninth or seauenth moneth. At seauen yeeres old, the childe casts his teeth, and receiues new. And euery seauenth yeere after there is some alteration or change in mans life: especially, at nine times seauen, the Clymactericke yeere, which by experience is found to haue been fatall to many of those learned *men who haue beene the chiefest lights of the world. And if they escaped that yeere, yet most of them haue departed this life in a ⟨p. 534⟩septenary yeere. Lamech dyed in the yeere of his life 777. Methusalem, the longest liuer of the sonnes of men, died when hee began to enter his 900. and 70. yeere. Abraham dyed, when hee had liued 25. times 7. yeeres. Iacob when hee had liued 21. times 7. yeeres. Dauid after hee had liued tenne times 7. yeeres. So did Galen, so did Petrarch (who as Bodin noteth) dyed on the same day of the yeere that hee vvas borne: so did the Maiden-Queene *Elizabeth, of blessed and neuer dying memorie, vvho came into this world the Eue of the Natiuitie of the blessed Virgin Mary: and went out of this world, on the Eue of the Annunciation ⟨p. 535⟩of the Virgin Mary. Hypocrates dyed in his 15. septenarie. Hierome and Isocrates in their 13. Plinie Bartolus and Caesar ▪ in their 8. septenarie. 5And Iohannes de temporibus, vvho liued 361. yeeres dyed in the 53. septenary of his life. The like might be obserued of innumerable others.
- *Pont. of the last decaying age of the world. pag. 12.13.21
- aExpertum est in plerisque omnibus 63. annum cum periculo & clad• aliqua venire, aut corporis morbique gravioris aut vitae interitus, aut animi agritudinis. Agellius lib. 1.15. c. 7. Augustus in ep. ad Cai•n nepotem exultat s• [Greek or Hebrew] comm••em sen•orum omnium 63. evasisse, Bodin. de Repub. lib. 4. cap. 2.Expertum est in plerisque omnibus 63. annum cum periculo & clad• aliqua venire, aut corporis morbique grauioris aut vitae interitus, aut animi agritudinis. Agellius lib. 1.15. c. 7. Augustus in ep. ad Cai•n nepotem exultat s• 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 comm••em sen•orum omnium 63. euasisse, Bodin. de Repub. lib. 4. cap. 2.
- *Aristotle, Cicero, Bernard, Bocace, Erasmus, Luther, Melanchthon, Sturmi•s, &c.Aristotle, Cicero, Bernard, Bocace, Erasmus, Luther, Melancthon, Sturmi•s, &c.
- *She was, she is (what can there more be said?) In earth the first, in heaven the second Maid.She was, she is (what can there more be said?) In earth the first, in heauen the second Maide.
- 5Bodin. Bucholz.
- 6Climax vitae virorum ferè septenariis aut novenariis, Faeminarum verò senariis d finitur. Bodin. de Rep. lib. 4. cap. 2.Climax vitae virorum ferè septenariis aut nouenariis, Faeminarum verò senariis d finitur. Bodin. de Rep. lib. 4. cap. 2.
