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Show 12S TranflatiJn ofFea(lJ. LIB. I I I. n Munfter .in gre£for, not a fulfiller of the Law. ( n) Dthers fay, that MJt.cap. a6• becal!lfe that year their rajfot)er fell on friday, hence the feaft was tranO H ed unto saturday by the rule B adtl. Their inference is that chriji kept the fourteenth .day of the month, which was Frid,1y!J and the jews 1 f b co . kept Saturda11. He kept Gods Command, they the o o ep • .:ora "./ lig. de eme~td. tradition of· the Elders. ( o) laftly, others ~ore p · - temp _. lib. 6. bably hold, that both chrtft and the Jews dtd eat tl1e p ~6.>. P ajfo. ver the·1r. ame day an d ho ur .' name~ } y, on F rt· da ,y , or the fourteenth day oftht.rnonth, ifwecount the beginning of FridaJ accordtng . .to the manner of the JewJ, from fix a clock at night o~ 1hurfdaJ •. Frida.! n1orning he was judged, and crucified; and tn the atternoon, about three of the clock, when the prepara .. ti·(}n oft he sabbath began, he was bu~ied ~ There laid they ]ej~H, bectmfe of the Jenu prepart~!ton,.Joh~ ; 9~ 24• For reconciling the Evangelifts 1n thts potnt~ we muft note thefe particulars, which. are more at large proved in the chapter of the Pajfover. L The fourteenth day of the month, on which the P aft· hal Lamb was eaten was called the firf\: day of unleaven~d bread; the Fe aft of unleavened bread drew near, which is called the Pajfover;Lu/ze 22.1. The foNrfeenth day was-not holy, but the fifteenth was. In the fourteenth da.y of the firft month is th_e Pa.f!Over of the Lord, and tu the fifteenth day of thts month is the Feaft, Numb. 2 8. 16, 1 7. Som·e of them thought, becanfe JndeU had the bag, the1 Jef111 had faid unto him, Buy thofe things that we have need of a;: · gainftthe Feafi:, 1ohn 13.29. . The sheep llnd Bulloc4s offered upon tht~ ~ay, are called the Pajfover, Deut. 16 .. 2. And of thts we are tounderfiand S. John'J Joh. 18. 28. They themfelves went not into the common Hall) left they iliould be . defiled~ LIB. I I I. Tra11jlation ofFeafis. d~fifed,_ but that they might eat the Yajfo·ver. So that thts eattng of the P ajfover is not underfiood of the Pafchal Lamb. But fome may q_uc~ion, How they fhoold have beem defiled by entnng mto the· common Ha~l? The anfwer is, that upon (p) Ho!J · d-ty·eve1, p pr1 r~ W~Jch \:hey term.ed days of preparation, they heJd it n1W9J ,), ::1 ~~.iawful for theJr Jt~dgeJ to fit on life and deatb,fJence :11p N~ It !S that they brought Jefus to Pilt~te the Roman De- N~,\ ~~~ ;uty .. Secondly, they withdrew themfelves out of the ,JVJ common HalL Thirdly, for this reafon they f3id It · Mofelh cn_ t I ,{', lfi · ' H Mrttmo, '' Jt ft no ~wJ u or 1U.to put anJ m_an to. de~th, Joh. 18.3 1 .( q) l~d. c. s:n~- t~at Is, upon thts, or fuch hke day; for though their dr in.SeEJ.n. htgh Court of Sanedri111 were put down at this time q A1ll~'ft• r raff. 11 · r. fl'f ' 114. In [Jann. ret~ power 1~ C~lfS? I.e and death was not taken ita hunc locr~m from them, as IS tmplted In the ·words following. It exp~nll~t etia'!' w h h d f ~~r: · h ' eyrrll.ltb.' 2 111 as t at t e ~o.r o Je.JIH mtg t be fulfilled, which Joan,c 6 ch,Jf• he fpake figntfytng what death ht lliould die ver 3 2 hom.r2. in Jo Which text intimatet.h, that that unlawful~tfs ~as. an. :t;a ;,., u~ged by the. fpecial _Providence of God, that he c, 1 • oan mtght be ~ruclfied, bt:tng judged by ft/at: for if the Jews had ;udged, theyofed no fuch kind of death to-wards Malefactori._ Again, Stephen was condemned by them to be fioned, All. 7· And they complained hef<;>re F e/ix, that when they were about to proceed. agatnfi: raul according to their own Law the chief Captain LJJitU with violence took him o~t of their hands, Al?s 24. Which argueth, that all power in · caufes cap1tal was not taken from them : But of this fee the Cha~ter, Of their capital pHnifhment1 • s C ,H A P· |