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feven more for Rachel ; and feven days the people of Ifrael bewailed the death of Jacob. Moreover we read, in the fame place, of feven kine *, and feven years of corn ; feven years of plenty, and feven years of fcarcity. And in Exodus, the Sabbath of Sabbaths, the holy reft to the Lord, is commanded to be on the feventh day ; alfo, on the feventh day Mofes ceafed to pray. On the feventh day there fliall be a folemnity of the Lord ; the feventh year the fervant {hall go out free •, feven days let the calf and the lamb be with its dam ; the feventh year, let the ground that hath been fown fix years be at reft ; the feventh day {hall be a holy Sabbath, and a reft ; the feventh day, becaufe it is the Sabbath, {hall be called holy. In Leviticus, the feventh day alfo {hall be more obferved, and be more holy ; and the firft day of the feventh month {hall be a Sabbath of memorial ; feven days {hall the facrifices be offered to the Lord ; feven days {hall the holy days of the Lord be celebrated ; feven days in a year everlaftingly in the generations. In the feventh month you fhall celebrate feafts, and {hall dwell in tabernacles feven days ; feven times he fhall fprinkle himfelf before the Lord that hath dipped his finger in blood ; he that is cleanfed from the leprofy, fhall dip feven times in the blood of a fparrow ; feven days fliall {he be wafhed with running water that is menftruous ; feven times he fhall dip his finger in the blood of a bul- lock j feven times I will finite you for your fins. In Deuteronomy, feven people poffeffed the Land of Promife. There is alfo read, a feventh year of remiflion ; and feven candles fet up on the fouth fide of the candlefticks. And in Numbers it is read, that the fons of Ifrael offered up feven ewe lambs without fpot ; and that feven days they did eat unleavened bread ; and that fin was expiated with feven lambs and a goat ; and that the feventh day was ce- lebrated, and holy ; and the firft day of the feventh month was obferved, and kept holy ; and the feventh month of the Feaft of Tabernacles j and feven calves were offered on the feventh day ; and Baalam erected feven altars ; feven days Mary, the After of Aaron, went forth leprous out of the camp ; feven days he that touched a dead carcafs was unclean. And in Jofhua, feven priefts carried the ark of the covenant before the hoft ; and feven days they
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went round the cities ; and feven trumpets were carried by the feven priefts 5 and on the feventh day, the feven priefts founded the trumpets. And in the book of Judges, Abeffa reigned in Ifrael feven years ; Sampfon kept his nup- tials feven days, and the feventh day he put forth a riddle to his wife ; he was bound with feven green withes ; feven locks of his head were thaved off ; feven years were the children of Ifrael oppreffed by the King of Maden. And in the books of the Kings, Elias prayed feven times, and at the feventh time beheld a little cloud ; feven days the children of Ifrael pitched over againff the Syrians, and in the feventh day of the battle were joined 5 feven years’ famine was threatened to David, for the people’s murmuring ; and feven times the child fneezed that was raifed by Elilha 5 and feven men were crucified toge- ther, in the days of the firft harveft ; Naaman was made clean with feven wafhings, by Elifha 5 the feventh month Goliah was flain. And in Heller we read, that the King of Perfia had feven eunuchs. And in Tobias, feven men were coupled with Sarah, the daughter of Raguel. And, in Daniel, Nebuchad- nezzar’s furnace was heated feven times hotter than it was ufed to be ; and feven lions were in the den, and the feventh day came Nebuchadnezzar. In the book of Job, there is mention of feven fons of Job 5 and feven days and nights Job’s friends fat with him on the earth ; and, in the fame place — “ In feven troubles no evil lhall come near thee.” In Ezra, we read of Artaxerxes’s feven counfellors ; and in the fame place, the trumpet founded ; the feventh month of the Feali of Tabernacles was, in Ezra’s time, whillt the children of Ifrael were in the cities ; and on the firft day of the feventh month, Efdras read the law to the people. And, in the Pfalms, David praifed the Lord feven times in the day ; filver is tried feven times ; and he renders to his neighbours fevenfold into their bofoms. And Solomon faith, that Wifdom hath hewn herfelf feven pillars *, feven men that can render a reafon ^ feven abominations which the Lord abhors ; feven abominations in the heart of an enemy ; feven overfeers ; feven eyes beholding. Ifaiah numbers up feven gifts of the Holy Ghoft ; and feven women lhall take hold on a man. And in Jeremiah, if Ihe that hath
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borne feven, languiflies, (he has given up the gliod. In Ezekiel, the Prophet continued fad for feven days. In Zachariah, feven lamps, and feven pipes to thofe feven lamps ; and feven eyes running to and fro through the whole earth ; and feven eyes on one done ; and the fad of the feventh day is turned into joy. And in Micah, feven fhepherds are raifed againd the Adyrians. Alfo, in the Gofpel, we read of feven bledings ; and feven virtues, to which feven vices are oppofed ; feven petitions of the Lord’s Prayer ; feven words of Chrid upon the crofs •, feven words of the bleded Virgin Mary ; feven loaves didributed by the Lord ; feven batkets of fragments ; feven brothers having one wife ; feven difciples of the Lord who were ddrers ; feven water pots in Cana of Galilee ; feven woes which the Lord threatens to hypocrites ; feven devils cad out of the unclean woman, and feven wickeder devils taken in after that which was cad out ; alfo, feven years Chrid was fled into Egypt ; and the feventh hour the fever left the governor’s fon. And in the canonical epidles, James deferibes feven degrees of wifdom ; and Peter, feven degrees of virtues. And in the A6ts, we reckon feven deacons, and feven difciples ehofen by the Apodles. Alfo, in the Revelation, there are many myderies relating to this number ; for there we read of feven candledicks, feven dars, feven crowns, feven churches, feven fpirits before the throne, feven rivers of Egypt, feven feals, feven marks, feven horns, feven eyes, feven fpirits of God, feven angels with feven trumpets, feven horns of the dragon, feven heads of the dragon which had feven diadems, alfo feven plagues, and feven vials which were given to every one of the feven angels, feven heads of the fcarlet bead, feven mountains and feven kings fitting upon them, and feven thunders uttered their voices.
Moreover, this number hath much power; as in natural fo in facred cere- monial, and alfo in other things ; therefore the feven days are related hither; alfo the feven planets, the fe\en dars called Pleiades, the feven ages of the world, the feven changes of man, the feven liberal arts, and as many mechanic, and fo many forbidden ; feven colours, feven metals, feven holes
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in the head of a man, feven pair of nerves, feven mountains in the city of Rome, feven Roman kings, feven civil wars, feven wife men in the time of Jeremiah, feven wife men of Greece ; alfo Rome did burn feven days by Nero ; by feven kings were flain ten thoufand martyrs : there were feven lleepers ; and feven principal churches of Rome.
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