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THe (a) seauenth] Signifying all things created at once. (b) Wee be thought] alluding to the precedent, saying, God made althings in number, weight & measure: that if he should say too
St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.
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- St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.
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- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
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- 1610.
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much of number, hee should seeme both to neglect his owne grauity and measure, and the wise-mans. (c) Let this] The Iewes in the religious keeping of their Sabboth, shew that 7. was a number of much mistery. Hierome in Esay. Gellius. lib. 3. and his emulator Macro∣bius (in Somn. Scip. lib. 1.) record the power of it in Heauen, the Sea, and in Men. The Pytha∣gorists, as Chalcidius writeth, included all perfection, nature & sufficiency herein. And wee Christians hold it sacred in many of our religious misteries. (d) That 3. is▪ An euen number (sayth Euclid) is that which is diuisible by two: the odde is the contrary. Three, is not di∣uisible into two, nor any: for one is no number: Foure is diuided into two, and by vnites: and this foure was the first number that gotte to halfes, as Macrobius sayth, who therefore com∣mendeth 7. by the same reason that Aug. vseth here. (e) For all] Aug. in Epist. ad Galat. (f) By this number] Serm. de verb, dom. in monte. This appellation ariseth from the giftes, shewne in Esay, Chap. 32.
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The num∣ber of •…•…a∣uen.