Bonaventure, on Ps 118:164

“Seven times a day I have given praise to thee, for the judgments of thy justice.”

“On account of which it should be noted that sacred Scripture sets before us a sevenfold septenary for consideration, namely of the capital vices, of the Sacraments, of the virtues, of the gifts, of the beatitudes, of the petitions, and of the glorious endowments, three spiritual and four corporal: the septenary of vices as the first, from which we ought to withdraw; the septenary of the Sacraments as the second, through which we ought to advance; the septenary of the endowments as the last, which we ought to desire; the septenary of the petitions as the penultimate, by which we ought to ask: and the threefold intermediate septenary of the virtues, the gifts, and the beatitudes, through which we ought to pass: so that, praising the name of the Lord and praying seven times a day, we may obtain the sevenfold grace of the virtues, gifts, and beatitudes, by which we may overcome the sevenfold battle of the capital vices and arrive at the sevenfold crown of the glorious endowments, with the aid nonetheless of the sevenfold medicine of the Sacraments divinely established for the restoration of the human race.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.