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Show I 36 Of their )ubi£e~ working d_aies of the week, the feventh anfwered our Sabbath, according to that, A thoufand years ar.e but as one dav with the Lord , 2 Pet.3.8. Eiitn his fi9'7N 'J \Vords are thefe; Six thoufand year J the world fball be, :11,~:1 --~~and again it (hall be deftroJhed: (f)Twdo thouflhan~Jadlt he "fl'7~ J void two thoufand under t e Law, an two I 011Jan un • t1 'D., der the Mef/itH. The fubfi:an~e oft his Pr?phecy, how- ':1.w~n foever ·we rejetl: it as too cunous, yet fcetng that a Jew DH.o m!llrda rn· fnake it it may fetre to prove ~gainft them: Firfi, -~tnllattJ, uo r ' h mWi~ dierum. That the JUejjias is alre~dy c~me: Secondly, T at Me~t.ee,sT~tl· Moles his Law c~afed at hts com mg. rnua..tn a ne. ~ {, tlrin.c.Ha/(c., CHAP. X. Oftb~ir Jubilee. - T His is the ]afi: Fefiival which God commanded the ]ews, it was celebrated every pftieth;ear It is commanded, Le·v. l5 .8. l'hou llialt number feven sabbaths of years unto thee, o~c. The Englifh w.ord Jubilee is deri~ed fr~m the Hebrew 'i:l'" Jobel, fign~fy-ing a Ram; It Hgntfieth a Rams horn. Seven Prtefts {ball bear before the Arft feven Trumpets of Rams horns, }ujh.6.4. Where the word Jobel!m is ufed, and is expounded by the~kaldee Parapkraft, Rams-horns. JUarbacbiM is of optnton, that this year was called g M~rb~tcb. in their Jubilee, from (c) Jubal, the firfi: inventer of m.uLev: r, 2 S· fical infhuments, of whom we tead,Gen. 4.2 I. Juoal ~M the Father of allfuch tU handle the Harp and Organ: Other Authors deliver other reafons of the mame~but it is moft probable that this year was termed the year of Jubilee from Jobelim? _the Rams~ horns teen found-ed. There were five matn uf~s oftht$ Feafr. . Ftrfl, LIB. I IT.- oj their Juhilee; Firfl:, for t~e general re]eafeofServants. Secondly, for the re-fl:onng of Lands and Tenements unto their firfr Owners, ~~o ~ormerly fold them. Thirdly, hereby a true d tfhncbon of their Tribes was prefer-ve~ .. becaufe L~nds returned unto their Owners in .137 t?etr proper Tribe, and Servants to their own F ami- Ires • . C d) ~ onrthly, fome ~re of opinion, tl-lat as the d l(ofpini~trr tit Grecz~.n.t dtd compute therr _times by the number ot Orrg.fefl,c.9. o(Jmpz~~s, th~ ~mans by their L11jir4~ the chriflians by theu. I11~tfJron~: So the Jews by their Juhilee.t. La~Iy, It ~1d myfbcally fhadow forth that fpiritual Jubtlee, which chriftians enjoy under chrift,by whofe blood we have. not only a r~·entry into the Kingdom of Heaven, ~htch we had formerly forfeited by our fins (and this was haply lignified by the Ifrae/iteJ re-entry upon their Land~ forme~Jy fold ) but alfo the found oft he GIJ./jel, whtch was In this Feafi typed out unto us br the noi.fe ofthe Tr11mpets, is gone thorow. out the world. And thus the Lord God liath hlown th "{rumpe~, as Zacharies phrafe is, Zach. 9.14. But nei~ ther thts releafe of fervants, nor refioring of Lands was (e) until the tenth day of the firfr month x.:r.. ·' at wh. h . . I . t.Jrt, c Mo{u,lEnP· Ic time It was proc aimed by the found oftilu in H•4a- T~urnpets' or P\.ams horns; the nine firfi: daies of ch". Schemlt. thls month the Serva~ts feafied and made merry' Vetohel, C.lO. and w?re Oarlands , In token of their liberty ap-proaching. T (;HAP, |