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A33896	The Jewish calendar explained, or, Observations on the ancient Hebrew account of the year, months, and festivals used by the patriarchs and mentioned in Holy Scripture wherein is shown the order, names, and significations of their moneths, the reasons for first instituting their several feasts, as Passover, Tabernacles &c., with the exact days whereon they were celebrated and what they were to shadow forth under the Gospel / published for assisting weak capacities better to understand what they read in Holy Writ ... by Hen. Care.	Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1674 (1674)	Wing C524; ESTC R33304	17,192	47

of the City Desolate celebrated the 9th of the 5th Month Ab because on that day the City and Temple were twice set on fire first by Nebuchodonozor and after that by Titus The last The Fast of Godolia or Gedalia who was left in Iudea by Nebuzarda and slain by the Treachery of Ismael celebrated the third day of the 7th Month Tisri To these four Fasts after the Captivity they added the solemn Fast of Queen Hester in memory of the three days Fast which she commanded when about to apply her self to King Asuerus on behalf of the Iews Hester 4. This was celebrated the third day of the 12th Month Ader which afterwards became more famous for the signal Victory of Iudas Machabeus who on this day overthrew Antiochus his Army with Nicanor the Captain of it see 2 Mach. Chapter last 2. The Days of Purim or the Feast of Lots so called because Haman had cast the life and death as it were of the Iews upon the hazard of a Lot and celebrated in memory of God's Protection and their deliverance the 14th and 15th days of the last Month Adar There was likewise the Feast of Comportion or bringing of Wood mentioned by Iosephus l. 2. cap. 17. kept in the month Ab in memory of the wood brought for perpetual nourishment of the Holy Temple of Ierusalem according to God's Law Neh. 10. The Feast of Dedication of the Temple after Antiochus Epiphanes had prophained it Read 1 Mach. 1. this was celebrated eight days together beginning from the 25th of the Month Ciller 1 Mach. 4. and is mentioned by St. Iohn the Evangelist and at which he writes our Saviour himself was present These are the Feasts and Solemnities celebrated by the Ancient Iews where of mention is made in Scripture for others instituted after their Destruction and Repudiation and observed at this day by the modern Iews as the Feast of the New-Year the Feast of Reconciliation the Feast of Gladness or Joy of the Equinoxes and Solsticies c. there being no foot-steps of them in the Old Testament I wilfully omit them Only observe here that the Ancient Iews on their great Festivals or Holy-day Eves which they termed Days of Preparation held it unlawful for their Judges to sit on Life and Death Hence it is they would not go into the Common-Hall themselves lest they should be defiled Iohn 18.28 And for that reason also they brought Jesus to Pilate the Roman Deputy and said It is not lawful for us to put any man to death at the 31 verse That is upon this or such a like day for though their great Court of Sanedrim were now put down yet all power in cases of Life and Death was not taken from them as 't is implyed in the 32 verse which intimates that that unlawfulness was urged by the special Providence of God that he might be Crucified being Judged by the Romans for if the Iews had been his Judges they used no such kind of Death for any Persons concondemned Again Stephen was after this condemned by them to be stoned Acts 7. And they complained before Felix that when they were about to proceed against Paul according to their own Law the chief Captain Lysias with violence took him out of their hands all which argues that they were not absolutely deprived of power in Cases Capital We shall only add a word or two concerning days and hours as they accounted them and therewith conclude Their Day was twofold Natural comprehending Day and Night and consisting of 24 hours or Artificial beginning at Sun-rising and ending at Sun-set of which is that in Iohn 11.19 Are there not twelve hours in the day Their Day Natural was likewise twofold Civil a working Day designed for ordinary business which began at Sun-rising and held till the next Sun-rising Or Sacred a Festival Day dedicated to Holy Duties begining at Sun-set and continuing till the next Sun-set see Mat. 28.1 Compared with Mark 16. and Iohn 20.1 Note that if any of these festival days happened to fall on a Sabhath day that was called Sabbathum Magnum a great Sabbath or as our translation reads it a high day Io. 19.3 For on that Sabbath day of which St. Iohn there speaks the Feast of the Passover fell that year The Night they distinguisht into four Quarters or greater hours which they called Watches containing each three lesser or common hours apeice The first they called Caput Vigiliarum the first watch Lam. 2.19 The second the middle watch Judges 7.10 Not because there were but three but because it continued till mid-night The third till three in the morning If he come in the second or third Watch Luke 12.38 The last called the Evening Watch Exod. 12.24 continued till six in the Evening see Mat. 14.25 The first was also called the Even the second midnight the third Cockcrowing the fourth the Dawnings all which are exprest Mark 13.35 In like manner was their day divided as appears by the parable of the Labourers Mat. 20. The first from six a Clock in the morning till nine was called the third hour the second ending at twelve the sixth hour the third at three in the afternoon the ninth hour and the fourth ending at six at night was called the eleventh hour Where note that the three first Quarters take their names from that hour of the Day which closed the Quarter for they began to count their lesser hours from six a clock in the morning and so Our 6 7 8 9 10. 11. 12. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6 Was their 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12 Only the last great hour or quarter Is called by our Saviour the eleventh hour whereas amongst the Common people It was or should by proportion with the rest have been called the twelfth hour But it may be Christ might rather mention the eleventh To shew us that although God in his mercy accept Labourers eleven hours in the day yet he rarely calls any at the twelfth for that is an hour rather to Discharge Servants than to admit new ones Thus have we we hope by this brief Collection given the inquisitive Reader some glimmering Light though not full satisfaction in these obscure walks of sacred Antiquity What remains but that we wind up this discourse of Years Months and Days c. With some Moral or Theological Reflections on the worth and use of time As there is nothing can more further us towards happinesse than that being rightly improved so there is nothing we shall more bewail than the unprofitable wasting it what would or rather what would not a dying sinner give for a few moments to make his peace with Heaven though we cannot recall time mispent there is a way and the Apostle charges us to make use of it to Redcem the time Not unworthy observation is the Moto of a Sundial in that noble Monument of Charity The Charter-house Teners non Potes Potes non Perdere Though we cannot shop times motion yet it lies in our power not to trifle it away But alas how few consider the true worth of this Jewel wherewith some inconsiderates think themselves so overstockt that they are forc'd to Invent a thousand Vanities to pass away the time as they call it never regarding how soon their time at least will be no more but they with horror shall be launch'd out into the Ocean of a Wretched Eternity It was too great a truth of most men which I saw once ingraved on the Blade of a Dutch Ladies Knife Omnia Si repetas Humanae Tempora Vitae Vel male vel Temere vel nihil Egit Homo Which at her Request was Extempore turned into this dull English Survey mans Life view all his boasted Facts Things ill or vain or nought at all he Acts. To conclude since time is so swift of foot and that in all his measures of years months and days we can never at once be masters of above one moment for what 's past is Irrevocable that which is to come Incertain Let this warn us to live every day as if it were as we cannot know but it may prove our last that so when we arrive at the end of our days we may attain the end of our Hope Viz. The Slavation of our Immortal Souls through the Meritorious passion of the ever Blessed Jesus Amen FINIS