A week consists of seven mornings, or seven days, which the Gentiles call by the names of the seven planets (which they worshipped as Gods); the first day of the sun; the second day of the moon, &c. In a week God made the world,
i.e.
in six days, and rested the seventh.
All civilized nations observe one day in seven, as a stated time of worship; the Turks and Mahometans keep the sixth day of the week, or Friday; the Jews the seventh, or Saturday; the Christians the first, or Sunday.
Of months there are various kinds; a solar month is the space of thirty days, in which time the sun runneth through one sign of the zodiac.
A lunar month is that interval of time which the moon spendeth in wandering from the sun, in her oval circuit, through the twelve signs, until she returns to him again, (being sometimes nearer, sometimes farther from the earth)
i.e.
from the first day of her appearing next after her change, to the last day of her being visible, before her next change, which may be greater or lesser, according to her motion.
The usual or common months are those set down in our almanacks, containing some 30, some 31, and February but 28 days, according to these verses:
| Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; February twenty-eight alone, All the rest have thirty-one; But when leap-year comes, that time Has February twenty-nine. |