An explication of the iudiciall lawes of Moses. Plainely discovering divers of their ancient rites and customes. As in their governours, government, synedrion, punishments, civill accompts, contracts, marriages, warres, and burialls. Also their oeconomicks, (vizt.) their dwellings, feasting, clothing, and husbandrie. Together with two treatises, the one shewing the different estate of the godly and wicked in this life, and in the life to come. The other, declaring how the wicked may be inlightned by the preaching of the gospel, and yet become worse after they be illuminated. All which are cleered out of the originall languages, and doe serue as a speciall helpe for the true understanding of divers difficult texts of scriptures. ... / By Iohn Weemse, of Lathocker in Scotland, preacher of Gods word.

How they reckoned the dayes of the Weeke.

THe Iewes reckoned their dayes thus; Prima Sabbath, secunda sabbath, the first day of the weeke, the se∣cond day of the weeke, &c. Secondly, the Latine Church reckoned from the Passeover, Prima feria, se∣cunda feria, &c. Thirdly, they borrowed afterward a∣nother sort of reckoning from the Heathen, who recko∣ned their dayes by the Planets, the Sunne, the Moone, Mercurie, Mars, &c.

What is the reason that they reckoned not the dayes [Quest.] of the weeke according to the order of the Planets, for the Planets stand after this order, Saturne stands in the highest place, then Iupiter, next Mars, and so in order Sol, Mercurie, Venus, and then Luna. Iupiter followeth not Saturne in the dayes of the weeke, but Sol; so Mer∣curie followeth not Sol but Luna.

The order of the dayes of the weeke is Mathemati∣call; [Answ.] for the seven Planets being set downe in a circle according to their owne naturall order, by an equall di∣stance, they make seven triangles, reaching from their

bases to the Hemisphere, whose bases arise from the se∣verall corners drawne in the circle, in whose circumfe∣rence, the seven Planets are set downe according to their owne order, making up one equall triangle in e∣very one of their two sides, as, ☉ Sol, ☽ Luna, ♂ Mars; ☉ Sol is in the right side of the triangle, ☽ Luna in the top, and ♂ Mars in the left side of the triangle; and so from ♂ Mars to ♃ Iupiter by ☿ Mercurie; and from ♃ Iu∣piter to ♄ Saturne by ♀ Venus; and from ♄ Saturne to ☽ Luna by ☉ Sol, and from the ☽ Moone to ☿ Mercurie by ♂ Mars; and from ☿ Mercurie to ♀ Venus by ♃ Iupi∣ter, as yee may see in the figure following.