Thesis 8.
For although in numero numerante (as they call it,) [ 8] i. e. in number num••••ing there can be but one seventh, which immediately follows the number six: yet in numero numerato. i. e. in number numbred, or things which are num∣bred, (as are the dayes of the week) any of the seven may be so in way of relation and proportion. As suppose seven men stand together, take the last man in order from the other six, who stand about him, and he is the seventh: so againe take the first in order, and set him apart from the six who stand below him, and if the number of them who are taken from him make up the number of six, he then may and must necessarily be called the seventh. Just thus it is in the dayes of the week; the first Sabbath from the Creation might be cal∣led the seventh day in respect of the six dayes before it; and this first day of the week may be called the seventh day also, in respect of the six working dayes together after it. That may be called the last seventh; this the first seventh, without any absurdity of account which some would imagine: and if this first day of the week is called the eight day according to Ezekiels Prophesie of Evangelicall times, and his reckoning onward from the Creation, Ezek. 43.27. why may it not then in other respects put on the name of a seventh day also?