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A77495	Calendar-reformation. Or, An humble addresse to the Right Honorable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, touching the dayes and moneths, that they may be taught to speak such a language as may become the mouth of a Christian. / By I.B.	Brinsley, John, fl. 1581-1624.	1648 (1648)	Wing B4709; Thomason E433_22; ESTC R206204	10,165	15

works Heb 6. 1. So in constituting of Gods true worship and service it is a fit method to begin with the abolishing of Idolatrous Monuments For what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols 2 Cor. 6. 16. This is Moses's or rather Gods method saith the same Author writing upon that 12th of Deut. verse 3. And this hath hitherto been your method Your work of Reformation hath begun at the same end in taking away some at least supposed Relicks of Superstition And why may not Idolatrous dedication of dayes and moneths come in the number The Christian dedication of some dayes to the memorie of Apostles Saints and Martyrs you have alreadie by your Authoritie made null And why should all the rest be left undone an Heathenish dedication to the memorie and honour of abominable Idols Thus have I thrice noble and Illustrious Senatours freely and plainly represented unto you this so just a greivance And what now remaines but that I should herein bespeak your zeale for God Which that I may set an edge upon I shall onely set before you what God himself sets before his people by way of Evangelicall promise Zach. 13. 2. It shall come to passe in that day saith the Lord of hosts that I will out off the names of the Idols of the Land Hos. 2. 16. I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth aad they shall be no more remembred by their name This hath God promised to do for his Church under the Gospel and this he will do May you have the honour and happinesse to be instrumentall in promoting this designe in this Kingdome Which in the specified particular you may effect with as great facilitie as your Remembrancer moove it It is but your Fiat who will contradict or oppose it Not any who either have or pretend to tender consciences Having so expresse a precept to aw them they dare not Not others having such precedents a Prelate and a Prince both so great and so good to go before them they will not Qu. But what names shall be given to the one and the other Ans. Here I shall not take the bouldnesse to prescribe What names you please so they be Innocent But what fitter can there be then what Scripture it self puts into our mouths The first second third day or moneth This was the language both of the old Testament and new And why should any be curious in seeking for any other True it is the first day of the weeke so called before {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Matth. 28. 1. Mar. 16. 2. 9. it hath obteined a peculiar denomination Dies dominica The Lords day so stiled not without a divine approbation from the Resurrection of Christ upon that day Let this Queen this Ladie and Mistresse this cheif of dayes retaine her own stile In the mean time if the other dayes as hand-maids in reference to her beare onely these simple notes of distinction as before they did in reference to the Sabboth it will be an honour to her and no injurie to them In like manner for Moneths What need they say other names then their numer all distinctions These content some of them September the seventh Moneth October the eight November the ninth December the tenth And why not the rest Obj. But the Jews and others names for their moneths Ans. True they had so at least for some of them And that not onely after their return from Captivitie as Paulus Bugensis Pererius Calvin and our Goodwin would have it but before also In their returne from Babylon as it is hard to come out of Babylon not to retaine something of Babylon they brought diverse Chald●e or Persian names along with them by which afterwards they called their Moneths These we shall meet with in the books writen after the captivity Canonical and Apocriphal But besides these they had other Hebrew names some of which we are sure were in use before Of them our English new Annot reckons up 6 viz Abib their first Moneth answearing to part of our March and Aprill at which time they began their yeare about the Spring Equinoctiall as we do ours Exod 12. 2. and 13. 4. Their second Zif 1. King 6. 1. Their seventh Ethanim 1 King 8. 2. Their eight Bul 1 King 6. 38 Their ninth Chisle● Zach 1. 1. Nehe 1. 1. Their eleventh Sebat Zach 1. 7. Hebrew names all saith the Note though others question some of them And these we may look upon not meerly as Appellatives as the aforesaid Authors would have it describing and setting forth the properties of those severall seasons but as proper names given to those Moneths for distinctions sake Now if it shall be thought expedient to give the like names to Moneths amongst us so they may be as inoffensive in their signification as those names were I shall be far from quarrelling it Those Hebrew names I meane As for the other there are some of them that stand too like some of ours seeming to carrie with them an Idolatrous tang But for the Hebrew names we shall find them Innocent All taken from some naturall properties in those Moneths as Abib which signifieth Spica or arista virens a green eare of Corne Levi 2. 14. Spica tenera because in that Moneth with them their Barlie began to be eared Exod 9. 31. So Zif signifying Brightnesse or Beautie because then their plants were in their cheife splendour and began to be beautified with buds and blossomes Ethanim Ripenesse or strength because fruits were then brought to their full maturitie Bul fading because then began the fall of the leafe Chislen variable or tempostuous So is the weather in that Moneth Sebat a dry stick or staffe because such are the trees in that Moneth seare and drie Such were those names each yeelding a naturall reason for its imposition Now shall the like names be imposed upon Moneths and Dayes too with us they shall never set an edge upon my teeth in the pronunciation of them But this Circumstance together with the substance of the Motion it self I shall humblie leave at the door of your great Synedrion Where if amongst the croud of many other Motions and Petitions of like nature it chance to be smothered and dye yet shall I have what to me will be an aboundant recompence for my paper ink and time Liberavi animam In discharging of my duty to God and you I have freed my own soule and shall pray for Yours resting Your unworthy Remembrancer content to be of no name so as Moneths and Dayes may be freed from Idolatrous names FINIS Imprimatur Joseph Caryl March 10th 1647. a Verst●gans Antiquities ca. 3. b Versteg ibid. c Camb. Brit. de Saxonibus d Versteg ibid. e Cambd. Brit. de Danis f Cambd. g Verstegan h Verstegan Ad●ian Iunius Nomenclat History of Times translated out of Pedro Mexio c. l. 6. c. 6. Lyra ad loc. Aug. Enarr in Ps. 93. in Titul. Cajetan in Exod. ●3 13. Calv. ad loc. Dr. Willet ad loc. Cajet. Simler adloc Isa. 64. 1. ●Thes 5. 22. Aug. ubi suprà * Genev. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} non est idem quod pagus Latine sed collis autrupes locus ve immens Lorinus ad loc Engl N Annot. in Deut. 12. 3. 2 Kin. 18. 5. 2 King 7. 2. Luk. 23 34. History of ancient Times l. 6. c. 6. Aynsworth Expos in Den 12. v. 3. Dr. Willet in Exod. c. 12. q 4. c. 13. q 4. Goodwin Moses Aaron li 3. cap. 1. English New Annotat. in 1 King 6. 1. Vid. Dr. willet ubi suprà Thamuz mensis quartus â Tammuz Idolo spurcissimo cui eo mense festum celebrebatur Ezek. 8. 14. Vid. Iun. ad loc. Buxtorf lexi● Buxtorf ibid. New Annotat. ubi supra