The Christian Sabbath defended against a crying evil in these times of the antisabitarians…

Yet Rivet makes it good, and that out of Tertullian, that long before it was in use among the Latins. Joannes Philoponus in his Commentary upon the History of the Creation, a book commended by Photius in his Bibliotheca. lib. 7. cap. 14. and lately set forth at Vienna in Austria, writes thus; All men do agree in this, that there are seven days only, which by revolution in themselves do complete whole time, whereof what reason can we give, but that which Moses gave? to wit, that in six days the Lord made the World, and rested the seventh. And Clemens Alexandrinus and Eusebius prove the same out of Homer, [Greek or Hebrew], The seventh day was that, wherein all things were finished; and out of Callimachus, and out of Linus in diverse passages to the same purse, as Rivetus hath showed in his answer to Gomarus. And further, that in the French Kings library, there is a Chronology of George Syncellus, from Adam to Diocletian; wherein Salmasius observes, that the computation of times by weeks was before the computation of times by months and years was found out by Astrologers; and that the ancient fathers distinguished the spaces of times ⟨p. 60⟩only by weeks: and that the Chaldean Astrologers having observed the course of the Sun, Moon, and other planets were the first that bestowed on the seven days of the week the names of the planets; and that by the testimony of an ancient author Manuscript. Zoroastres and Hystaspis were the authors of these demonstrations. But that this circuit of seven days was in use before Zoroastres and the first authors of Astrology. But the Jews kept themselves as to the distinction of times by weeks, so to call the days by their order, the first, the second; and that the Pythagoreans did the like—and called the first day of the week [Greek or Hebrew] like as the Hellenists called it [Greek or Hebrew]. In the year, 1627. There was set forth a book at Venice (as the same Doctor Rivet writes) entitled Thesaurus praeceptorum Isaaci Atiae Judaei; in the first part whereof and 157. precept touching the Sabbath, he writes to this effect, that the holiness of that sacred day is so well known, that it were superfluous to use many words in the explication thereof; seeing it is found to have impression in the very hearts of the Heathens themselves;

Yet Rivet makes it good, and that out of Tertullian, that long before it was in use among the Latines. Ioannes Philoponus in his Commentary upon the History of the Creation, a book commended by Photius in his Bibliotheca. lib. 7. cap. 14. and lately set forth at Vienna in Austria, writes thus; All men doe agree in this, that there are seven dayes only, which by revolution in themselves doe complete whole time, whereof what reason can wee give, but that which Moses gave? to wit, that in six dayes the Lord made the World, and rested the seventh. And Clemens Alexandrinus and Eusebius prove the same out of Homer, , The seventh day was that, wherein all things were finished; and out of Callimachus, and out of Linus in diverse passages to the same purse, as Rivetus hath shewed in his answer to Gomarus. And further, that in the French Kings library, there is a Chronology of George Syncellus, from Adam to Dioclesian; wherein Salmasius observes, that the computation of times by weekes was before the computation of times by moneths and yeares was found out by Astrologers; and that the ancient fathers distinguished the spaces of times