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Show 1~ ~ of the Fepfl1 ofTrumptts. LIB, I I I. Numb.29~r. 6.Secondly,in Other Ne~Moons they blow~ sb.eir.Jler. in ed no TrttmpetJ: 1 n this they blowec! (a) from the Sun 't!oce 19w rifi'ng tilL night: whence we learn what NtW.. ~loon it is that Du vid fpeaketh of, Pjal. 8 I 3 .Blow ihe Trumpet in the New Jl,.Joon,in the ti!JJe appointed, at our fea{! day. The reafon in general cf this blow~ng, and· great noi}e of 1rumpetJ, I take to have been, to make their New-yet~rJ-=day the more remarkable, becaufe from it all their deeds and contrafts bore date, and their sabbatical years and Jttbilees were counted thence: But why it ihould be made remarkable by the found of TrurJJpets, or Cornets, there are three con~ jefrures. bP.Fag;Levit~ Firfl, the(b) Hebrews think it w:~s done in memory 23· of Ifaac his deliverance , and that they did tnere .. _ fore found Rams hornJ, becaufe a Rt~.m was facrificed c 8ajiJinPfal. inftead ofhim. Secondly, (c) Bajll is of orinionJ that ~. the people were hereby put in mind of that day, wherein they received the Law in Mount Sinai with blowing of TrumpetJ.. Thirdly, others thin_k it was to put them in remember a nee of the Reforrellion, which· iha\l be with the found of Trumpets; He jl1allfend h~ . . Angels with a great found of a Trut~Jpet, Mat. 14.3 I. fi'Scaltt~ dee, There are cd) three things- co.nfiderabl'e in New m~ncl.ttmp.p~tg r· fl: I h • N h 2 6.lr.p 1o5• Moons. tr ~ ~uvol'tF, t e con]UIIuion oft e Moon with the Sun. <)·econdly, ~;d.()ra.~t-'~, the waxing of the , Moon. Thirdly , ~'ij~r~. p.£VoE~J'£~ , the prime ·of the Moon. In the firn it was quite dar~; in the fecond i_t , did open it felJ to receive the Su·n-beam.r : In the lait tt e HD{pin. leO· did appear corniculata horned r;g.fe{f.c.4· P· B r. '· r ' • f h h 1 ~· F.alem ra~ ecau1e In ~11 the1e three degre~s .o ~ e C ange~ ~io.re_net eri,un there was a ktnd of mutua\ parttctpatton both ot Mtllu.menfi· the old and New Moon: (e) Hence the Jews obftrve bus qHt cBn- • ffanr 1-9'-ditb~H two dates.) namely, the la.ft of every moneth, and the . .a~ . , LlB. III. TranjlationofFeafls. .123 flrfl day of the next following. Now becaufe the thir:.. tieth was the I aft in their longeft months ; Hence Ho"' race calleth thefe lafl dayr~ tricejima S'abbata: The tirft ... daJs the~ termed, NeomenitU, new Moons. E or certatn reafons the jews ufed a kind of chzmge '· or tra1if/ation. of claies; which tranjlt~tion, though It were ofuf~ tn uther months alfo . yet the gre~te!t care was h?d 1n tranf1ating the beginning of thetr year, or the~r. firlt day in their month 1ifri ; and he that fba11 d1bgent1y cal~ulate thefe changes, fhall find_, that all other tranflattons depended on this firfi. Tranjlation of d~i~s was (f) threefold. Fir:ft, Luna- f S~:alit. le e." ry: Secondly, Po!ttuk_: Thirdly, 114ixt. ;,e~~:~l~p.J~ 2 . The reafon of Lunary tranflation, was, that they mtght not obferve the F eafi of the New ~loon until the ~ld wer~ quite over-pafi. For the underfi~nding oftht~, note thefe three rules-. . Firft~ The Hebrew.r counted their Holy- daies from n1ght t~ night=> beginning a·t fix of the dock ; fo that from 0x of_the clock th~ firft night, till the next noon were JUft etghteen hours ' Secondly, Always before the New Moon there iii a conjunllion between the S~tn and the Moon'· durin . this conj11nfJion fbe is call~d ~una Ji!ens, by :eafon 0~ her darknefs, and all thts ttme there is a partici . ati• on of the New Moon P Thirdly,.._ \Vhen ;he conjunction was over p.afl: betore noon-ttde;, namely, in any of thofc firfi r 8 h 0 1 h _ o rs, t 1en t e New lYloon was celebrated the fam d B t if 't . d b e- ay. MMnfter Ctt u I continue ut one minute after twelve of ltnd.Heb.p. ,i~ ·the clock at. noon} then .. the feafl: was tranjlated to the d~y fol!owtng ' becaule otherwi1e th'ey fhould be-gtn then Holy-day in the time of the old M oon. R 2 And |