The Practice of Piety

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.